Cognitive Failures Questionnaire (CFQ)
Psychology: Cognition & Education1 sample item
About this scale
People make occasional errors due to absentmindedness. These can be lapses in memory or simple mistakes (e.g., forgetting why you actually went in the study room, forgetting a name, putting salt instead of the intended milk in your coffee). The Cognitive Failures Questionnaire (CFQ) is a highly cited measure of these types of errors by the well known cognitive psychologist Broadbent and colleagues (1982).
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Source & citation
D.E. Broadbent, P.F. Cooper, P. FitzGerald, & K.R. Parkes. (1982). The Cognitive Failures Questionnaire (CFQ) and its correlates. British Journal of Clinical Psychology, 21 , 1-16.
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