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Cognitive Flexibility Scale (CFS)

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About this scale

Mental flexibility is the ability to switch between different thoughts and actions. Mental flexibility is considered part of executive funcions , which are the general mental functions that help us to cordinate thought and action. There are cognitive tasks and self-report questionnaires for this, like the disexecutive questionnaire (DEX), which is best suited for clinical populations. The CFS is in the original paper not listed as a measure of executive fu

Sample item(s)

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Notes

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Source & citation

Martin, M. M. & Rubin, R.B. (1995). A new measure of cognitive flexibility. Psychological Reports, 76 , 623-626. (Download here) .

executive funcions
open access academic review of instruments for measuring executive function
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