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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Psychometrics

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  • Questionnaires are vital in psychology for assessing thoughts and beliefs.
  • Existing questionnaires often lack validation against naturalistic cognitive tasks.
  • There's a need for tools assessing broad cognitive profiles efficiently.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between established questionnaires and performance on naturalistic cognitive tasks.
  • To develop and evaluate a novel questionnaire for broad cognitive profiling.
  • To assess the validity of questionnaire measures against behavioral tasks.

Main Methods:

  • Recruited 217 participants for a battery of cognitive tasks (imagination, memory, future thinking, navigation).
  • Administered established psychology questionnaires alongside a newly devised simple-questionnaire.
  • Analyzed correlations between questionnaire responses and task performance.

Main Results:

  • Imagination and navigation questionnaires showed alignment with task performance.
  • Memory questionnaires correlated with autobiographical memory vividness, not episodic details.
  • Imagery questionnaires better reflected memory vividness and future thinking than dedicated measures.
  • The new broad questionnaire efficiently modeled task performance in young adults.

Conclusions:

  • Some psychology questionnaires serve as behavioral proxies, but relationships are complex for memory and future thinking.
  • Established questionnaires do not always accurately reflect performance on naturalistic cognitive tasks.
  • A simple, broad questionnaire shows promise for efficient cognitive profiling.