APA Dictionary of Psychology

a structured technique developed for enhancing eyewitness recollection in criminal investigation. It relies on principles of cognition and memory retrieval, such as context reinstatement, reporting everything (however seemingly irrelevant), recalling events in different order, and changing perspectives. See also aided recall. [developed in 1984 by U.S. psychologists R. Edward Geiselman (1949–  ), Ronald P. Fisher (1947–  ), and colleagues]