Item Response Theory analysis of the Cognitive Reflection Test: Testing the psychometric properties of the original scale and a newly developed 8-item version

Caterina Primi, Kinga Morsanyi, Maria Anna Donati, Francesca Chiesi

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Abstract

The Cognitive Reflection Test (CRT) is a short measure of a person’s ability to resist intuitive response tendencies, and to produce a normative response which is based on effortful reasoning. The CRT correlates strongly with important real-life outcomes, such as time preferences, risk-taking, and rational thinking. Although the CRT is a very popular measure, there is virtually no available data about its psychometric properties. The present study aimed at investigating the psychometric properties of the CRT, and to verify the suitability of a longer version of the test, which was obtained by adding five new items to the three original ones. We applied Item Response Theory analyses. The two-parameter logistic model was used in order to estimate item parameters (difficulty and discrimination), and the Test Information Function was computed to assess the measurement precision of both the original and the longer versions of the test. The results confirmed the suitability of the original items for measuring the cognitive reflection ability trait. Furthermore, the results demonstrated that the longer version of the scale measures with high precision a wider range of the cognitive reflection latent trait.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2014): Cognitive Science Meets Artificial Intelligence: Human and Artificial Agents in Interactive Contexts: Proceedings
Pages2799-2804
Number of pages6
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2014

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