TY - JOUR
AU1 - Toplak, Maggie E.
AU2 - West, Richard F.
AU3 - Stanovich, Keith E.
AB - The Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT; Frederick, 2005) is designed to measure the tendency to override a prepotent response alternative that is incorrect and to engage in further reflection that leads to the correct response. It is a prime measure of the miserly information processing posited by most dual process theories. The original three-item test may be becoming known to potential participants, however. We examined a four-item version that could serve as a substitute for the original. Our data show that it displays a .58 correlation with the original version and that it has very similar relationships with cognitive ability, various thinking dispositions, and with several other rational thinking tasks. Combining the two versions into a seven-item test resulted in a measure of miserly processing with substantial reliability (.72). The seven-item version was a strong independent predictor of performance on rational thinking tasks after the variance accounted for by cognitive ability and thinking dispositions had been partialled out.
TI - Assessing miserly information processing: An expansion of the Cognitive Reflection Test
JF - Thinking & Reasoning
DO - 10.1080/13546783.2013.844729
DA - 2014-04-03
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/assessing-miserly-information-processing-an-expansion-of-the-cognitive-HhtJMAQ0DZ
SP - 147
EP - 168
VL - 20
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -