Cognitive Failures Questionnaire 2.0

Instructions:

The following questions are about minor mistakes which everyone makes from time to time, but some of which happen more often than others. Please select the response that best reflects your experience in the past six months.

Items:

Do you find you forget why you went from one part of the house to the other?
Do you find you forget whether you've turned off a light or a fire or locked the door?
Do you fail to hear people speaking to you when you are doing something else?
Do you find you forget appointments?
Do you find you accidentally throw away the thing you want and keep what you meant to throw away?
Do you find you forget what you came to the shops to buy?
Do you forget to take your keys with you?
Do you forget passwords you need to remember?
Do you receive a delivery and forget what you ordered?
Do you call people by the wrong name?
In conversations, do you forget people’s name even when you know them well?
Do you get the dates of things mixed up?
Do you find you go to put objects in the wrong place, like putting something from the cupboard in the fridge?
Do you leave home and later realise you have forgotten something you intended to bring with you?
Do you think something is missing, only to later see it where you had already looked?

Response scale:

Never
Very Rarely
Occasionally
Quite Often
Very Often

Response scoring:

The response to each item receives a score between 0 and 4, such that:

Never = 0, Very Rarely = 1, Occasionally = 3; Quite Often = 3; Very Often = 4

Total CFQ 2.0 score = Sum of response scores to each of the 15 items, such that possible scores range from 0-60.

Permission:

Provided that the work is appropriately credited (see citation below), the CFQ 2.0 can be used for research purposes without personal permission.

Citation:

Goodhew, S. C., & Edwards, M. (2024). The Cognitive Failures Questionnaire 2.0. Personality and Individual Differences, 218, 112472. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2023.112472

Full text available here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886923003951

Enquiries:

please contact: stephanie.goodhew@anu.edu.au