___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ THE NEED FOR COGNITION SCALE - 18 item format ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Date: 11-08-2012 last updated: 02-25-2022 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC Script Copyright © 02-25-2022 Millisecond Software ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ BACKGROUND INFO ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This script implements the 18 item Need for Cognition Scale by Cacioppo,J.T., Petty,R.E. & Kao, C.F (1984). The efficient assessment of need for cognition. Journal of Personality Assessment, 48, 306-307. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ OVERVIEW ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ participant works on 18 9-point Likert questions. Each question has 9 answer choices, ranging from very strong agreement to very strong disagreement. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DURATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ the default set-up of the script takes appr. 3 minutes to complete ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DATA FILE INFORMATION ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The default data stored in the data files are: (1) Raw data file: 'NCS.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 -> reversed scoring already taken into account for R questions) 4 = very strong agreement -4 = very strong disagreement 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: 'needcognitionscale_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) totalscore: sum of the 18 individual question scores, rated on a scale from -4 to +4 (Total Range: -72 to +72) + responses to all individual questions ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ QUESTIONNAIRE SET-UP ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1) Questions: 18 9-point Likert questions total, 4 questions per page 2) Required Responses: By default the answer to each question is required (Go to QUESTIONS and edit each individual question) ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ INSTRUCTIONS ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ instructions for the questions are not originals; they can be changed under VALUES-> EDITABLE PARAMETERS -> parameters.instructions ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 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: /instructions: the wording used in instructions