Cognitive Interview Steps

In the first step of the video states you want to let the person being interviewed do most of the talking and to not interrupt them so that they may use their own words and memory. The article is somewhat in line with the video, but the video never talks about advising, requesting, ensuring, or having them face a blank wall or closing your eyes to recall specific events like the article does. The article requests that they tell you everything no matter how minor, advises them that they may mention anything that comes to mind even if out of context or chronological order, ensures complete privacy throughout the interview, and asks the subject to face a blank wall (or close their eyes) as this will help them recall specifics about the incident.

The second step of the video asks the interviewee to remember specifics before the event. This step is where they suggest they close their eyes and remember specifics. This is in line with the article which reconstructs all aspects of the scene "mentally" using questions to help them visualize who, what, where, when, why and how like for example time of day, day of week, general location, environment, specific location, distances.

The video never mentions anything about the other three steps like the article does. The article goes into further breakdown having adding three more steps to the process which are conducting a free-format interview, reverse order, which is having the subject recall his/her statement in reverse chronological order, or a change perspective which is having the witness mentally put themselves in the shoes of someone else, or put themselves in a different area of the scene and tell you what happened. What the video does do is combine these steps into 2 steps which are the only steps in the video. The video and articles have the same principles, but the video just combines everything into two steps instead of five.