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Self-report inventory of cognitive slippage
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The Cognitive Failures Questionnaire (CFQ) is a self-report inventory of cognitive slippage in the form of failures in everyday actions, perceptions and attention, and memory. It was developed by Donald Broadbent and others in 1982 at the University of Oxford's Department of Experimental Psychology. The authors originally intended for the questionnaire to measure three distinct factors: perception, memory, and motor function. Subsequent analysis has found four distinct factors measured, which partially overlap with the intended factors.

One study found that it is correlated with measures of neuroticism, including as measured by the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire, thus supporting the so-called mental-noise hypothesis of neuroticism.

References

  1. Yates, Gregory C. R.; Hannell, Glynis; Lippett, R. Mark (February 1985). "Cognitive slippage, test anxiety, and responses in a group testing situation". British Journal of Educational Psychology. 55 (1): 28–33. doi:10.1111/j.2044-8279.1985.tb02603.x. PMID 3970821.
  2. Broadbent, D. E.; Cooper, P. F.; FitzGerald, P.; Parkes, K. R. (February 1982). "The Cognitive Failures Questionnaire (CFQ) and its correlates". British Journal of Clinical Psychology. 21 (1): 1–16. doi:10.1111/j.2044-8260.1982.tb01421.x. ISSN 0144-6657. PMID 7126941.
  3. Berry, Dianne C. (1995). "Donald Broadbent and applied cognitive psychology". Applied Cognitive Psychology. 9 (7): S1–S4. doi:10.1002/acp.2350090702.
  4. Wallace, J. Craig; Kass, Steven J.; Stanny, Claudia J. (July 2002). "The Cognitive Failures Questionnaire Revisited: Dimensions and Correlates". The Journal of General Psychology. 129 (3): 238–256. doi:10.1080/00221300209602098. ISSN 0022-1309. PMID 12224809.
  5. Flehmig HC, Steinborn M, Langner R, Westhoff K (2007). "Neuroticism and the mental noise hypothesis: Relationships to lapses of attention and slips of action in everyday life". Psychology Science. 49 (4): 343–360. S2CID 49325040.


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