___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ *Cognitive Flexibility Scale (CFS)* ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Script Author: David Nitz (dave@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Date: 05-05-2020 last updated: 02-17-2022 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Script Copyright © this implementation 02-17-2022 Millisecond Software ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ BACKGROUND INFO ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This script implements a computerized adaptation of the short form of the Cognitive Flexibility Scale (CFS) as described in: Martin, M. M. & Rubin, R.B. (1995). A new measure of cognitive flexibility. Psychological Reports, 76, 623-626. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ OVERVIEW ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The CFS is a 12-item scale designed to assess cognitive flexibility. Participants are asked to answer 12 6-point Likert-type questions with the following anchors: "Strongly Agree", "Agree", "Slightly Agree", "Slightly Disagree", "Disagree" and "Strongly Disagree". Scoring: To score the scale, simply sum up the response values of the 12 items. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DURATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ the default set-up of the script takes appr. 2 minutes to complete ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DATA FILE INFORMATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The default data stored in the data files are: (1) Raw data file: 'cfs_survey*.iqdat' date, time: date and time script was run with the current group/subjectnumber subject, group, session: with the current subject/groupnumber/session id build: the Inquisit build q*_response: response given (in assigned values) Scale: strongly agree (6) - strongly disagree (1) R = automatically reversed scored questions q*_latency: how much time (in ms) the participant spent on the surveypage with this particular question (the last time this particular surveypage was visited) (2) Summary data file: 'cfs_summary*.iqdat' (a separate file for each participant) inquisit.version: Inquisit version run computer.platform: the platform the script was run on (win/mac/ios/android) startDate: date script was run startTime: time script was started subjectid: assigned subject id number groupid: assigned group id number sessionid: assigned session id number elapsedTime: time it took to run script (in ms); measured from onset to offset of script completed: 0 = script was not completed (prematurely aborted); 1 = script was completed (all conditions run) cfs_sum sum of responses to the 12 6-point questions ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ INSTRUCTIONS ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ can be edited under section Editable Parameters. The original instructions are: "The following statements deal with your beliefs and feelings about your own behavior. Read each statement and respond by circling the number that best represents your agreement with each statement." ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ EDITABLE CODE ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ check below for (relatively) easily editable parameters, stimuli, instructions etc. Keep in mind that you can use this script as a template and therefore always "mess" with the entire code to further customize your experiment. The parameters you can change are: /pageinstructions: the instructions that appear at the top of each surveypage