The Cognitive Failures Questionnaire Revisited: Dimensions and Correlates

Wallace, J. Craig; Kass, Steven J.; Stanny, Claudia J.

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“…Attention slips and action failures are frequently attributed to situational boredom (Reason & Lucas, 1984;Robertson et al, 1997) and, consistent with this claim, boredom proneness, assessed by the Boredom Proneness Scale (BPS), has been found to be positively associated with the CFQ (Wallace, Kass, & Stanny, 2002;Wallace, Vodanovich, & Restino, 2003). It is also possible that boredom proneness leads to carelessness, and is directly associated with a tendency to make high rates of cognitive and behavioral errors through lack of motivation or effort.…”

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Absent-mindedness: Lapses of conscious awareness and everyday cognitive failures

Cheyne

Carriere

Smilek

2006

Consciousness and Cognition

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A brief self-report scale was developed to assess everyday performance failures arising directly or primarily from brief failures of sustained attention (attention-related cognitive errors-ARCES). The ARCES was found to be associated with a more direct measure of propensity to attention lapses (Mindful Attention Awareness Scale-MAAS) and to errors on an existing behavioral measure of sustained attention (Sustained Attention to Response Task-SART). Although the ARCES and MAAS were highly correlated, structural modelling revealed the ARCES was more directly related to SART errors and the MAAS to SART RTs, which have been hypothesized to directly reflect the lapses of attention that lead to SART errors. Thus, the MAAS and SART RTs appear to directly reflect attention lapses, whereas the ARCES and SART errors reflect the mistakes these lapses are thought to cause. Boredom proneness was also assessed by the BPS, as a separate consequence of a propensity to attention lapses. Although the ARCES was significantly associated with the BPS, this association was entirely accounted for by the MAAS, suggesting that performance errors and boredom are separate consequences of lapses in attention. A tendency to even extraordinarily brief attention lapses on the order of milliseconds may have far-reaching consequences not only for safe and efficient task performance but also for sustaining the motivation to persist in and enjoy these tasks.

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Absent-mindedness: Lapses of conscious awareness and everyday cognitive failures

Cheyne

Carriere

Smilek

2006

Consciousness and Cognition

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“…Beyond the issue of consistency with ratings by significant others, it has been demonstrated that the measure possesses internal consistency (Broadbent, et al 1982;Knight et al, 2004), retest reliability, face validity (Knight et al, 2004) and construct validity (Broadbent, et al 1982, Jones & Martin, 2003Wallace, 2004;Wallace et al, 2002). The psychometric properties and construct validity of the everyday memory questionnaire (EMQ) have also been extensively explored in normal (Cornish, 2000) and clinical populations (Efklides et al, 2002;Koltai et al, 1996;Olsson et al, 2006;Schwartz & McMillan, 1989).…”

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Real-world memory and executive processes in cannabis users and non-users

Fisk

Montgomery

2008

J Psychopharmacol

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Real-world memory and executive processes in cannabis users and non-users http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/1101/ Article LJMU has developed LJMU Research Online for users to access the research output of the University more effectively. Copyright © and Moral Rights for the papers on this site are retained by the individual authors and/or other copyright owners. Users may download and/or print one copy of any article(s) in LJMU Research Online to facilitate their private study or for non-commercial research. You may not engage in further distribution of the material or use it for any profit-making activities or any commercial gain.The version presented here may differ from the published version or from the version of the record. Please see the repository URL above for details on accessing the published version and note that access may require a subscription.For more information please contact researchonline@ljmu.ac.uk http://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/ Citation (please note it is advisable to refer to the publisher's version if you intend to cite from this work) The relationships between executive processes, associative learning and different aspects of real world memory functioning were explored in a sample of cannabis users and nonusers. Measures of executive component processes, associative learning, everyday memory, prospective memory, and cognitive failures were administered. Relative to nonusers, cannabis users were found to be impaired in several aspects of real world memory functioning. No other group differences were apparent. The absence of cannabis related deficits in those executive component processes and aspects of learning that are believed to support real world memory processes is surprising given that cannabis related deficits were obtained in real world memory. The present results are discussed within the context of neuroimaging evidence which suggests that cannabis users may exhibit different patterns of neural activation when performing executive tasks while not always exhibiting deficits on these tasks.Keywords: Cannabis, executive processes, prospective memory, cognitive failures 3 The focus of the present paper is real world memory functioning in abstinent cannabis users. More specifically we intend to explore the basis of cannabis-related deficits in prospective memory, everyday memory, and cognitive failures, and the extent to which these impairments are underpinned by deficits in pre-frontal executive processes. Given that cannabis is clearly the most popular illicit drug in North America, Europe and in other parts of the world (Andersson et al, 2005) it is of considerable importance to investigate whether consumption of the drug is associated with cognitive deficits.Cannabis contains a number of chemical compounds collectively known as cannabinoids. The psychoactive properties of cannabis are mainly due to one of these cannabinoids, Δ 9 tetrahydrocannabinol, (THC). Animal studies have revealed that chronic administration of THC causes hippocampal damage and impairs maze learning in rats ...

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“…To this end, three studies examined the underlying structure of the CFQ via factor analysis. The models produced ranged inclusion of three (Broadbent et al, 1982), four (Wallace et al, 2002) and five factors (Pollina, Greene, Tunick, & Puckett, 1992). All articles highlighted memory and action slips as core dimensions measured by the CFQ, whilst perception, distractibility, and interpersonal intelligence were less consistently identified.…”

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“…Problems with memory and action slips are identified as core dimensions measured by cognitive failures (Broadbent et al, 1982;Pollina et al, 1992;Wallace et al, 2002). However, this tight definition may exclude some aspects of everyday failures such as more general cognitive functioning, distractibility, and mind-wandering.…”

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A systematic review of cognitive failures in daily life: Healthy populations

Carrigan

Barkus

2016

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

136

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Cognitive failures are minor errors in thinking reported by clinical and non-clinical individuals during everyday life. It is not yet clear how subjectively-reported cognitive failures relate to objective neuropsychological ability. We aimed to consolidate the definition of cognitive failures, outline evidence for the relationship with objective cognition, and develop a unified model of factors that increase cognitive failures. We conducted a systematic review of cognitive failures, identifying 45 articles according to the PRISMA statement. Failures were defined as reflecting proneness to errors in 'real world' planned thought and action. Vulnerability to failures was not consistently associated with objective cognitive performance. A range of stable and variable factors were linked to increased risk of cognitive failures. We conclude that cognitive failures measure real world cognitive capacity rather than pure 'unchallenged' ability. Momentary state may interact with predisposing trait factors to increase the likelihood of failures occurring. Inclusion of selfreported cognitive failures in objective cognitive research will increase the translational relevance of ability into more ecologically valid aspects of real world functioning. This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain.

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The Cognitive Failures Questionnaire Revisited: Dimensions and Correlates

Cited by 229 publications

References 38 publications

Absent-mindedness: Lapses of conscious awareness and everyday cognitive failures

Absent-mindedness: Lapses of conscious awareness and everyday cognitive failures

Real-world memory and executive processes in cannabis users and non-users

A systematic review of cognitive failures in daily life: Healthy populations

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