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Updated for AQA 2025 Spec – Teaching from SEPTEMBER 2025 onwards

This resource is designed for teaching The Cognitive Interview as a Technique for Improving the Accuracy of Eyewitness Testimony (EWT) under the updated AQA A-Level Psychology (2025 Specification). The 2025 spec retains the Cognitive Interview as a core topic, requiring students to understand all four techniques, evaluate their effectiveness using research evidence, and consider real-world application challenges.

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What’s Included:

• Fully Editable Lesson Slides – Clear, student-friendly coverage of all four Cognitive Interview techniques: Report Everything, Reinstate the Context, Reverse the Order, and Change Perspective. Includes explanations of the Enhanced Cognitive Interview (ECI), Think-Pair-Share discussion prompts, and embedded memory reconstruction activities.

• Concepts: Write Your Own Task – Applied activity where students write realistic police prompts for each CI technique, promoting retrieval, application, and literacy development. Ideal for classroom discussion or individual extension.

• Evaluation Worksheet – Supports AO3 skill development through a structured sort-and-justify task, encouraging students to evaluate the CI and ECI using real research (Milne & Bull, Kohnken et al., Kebbel & Wagstaff) and methodological issues like standardisation and accuracy trade-offs.

• “Evaluate It” Task – Interactive plenary-style activity where students categorise strengths and limitations of the CI and identify which factor would be most persuasive to real-world policing. Perfect for consolidating AO3.

• Exam Practice Questions – Includes a 4-mark short answer question and a 10-mark extended writing question. Model answers are provided to support student self-assessment and strengthen exam technique.

How This Resource Reflects the 2025 Specification Changes:

• Fully aligned with the updated 2025 AQA A-Level Psychology specification for the Memory topic

• Covers all four CI techniques and the Enhanced Cognitive Interview in depth

• Includes required research studies and methodological considerations for evaluation

• Features explicit AO1, AO2, and AO3 integration to build specification fluency and exam skills

• Provides varied and engaging tasks for classroom teaching or independent student learning