{"pk":27920,"title":"Developing A Cognitive Reflection Test for School-Age Children","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The cognitive reflection test (CRT; Frederick, 2005) assesseshow well adults can reflect on the validity of their ownthinking, and it has been shown to predict several measures ofnormative reasoning. Here, we sought to create a version ofthe cognitive reflection test suitable for elementary-school-aged children, which could be used to study the emergence ofcognitive reflection as well as its role in the development ofother forms of higher-order cognition. We identified eightchild-friendly questions that elicit an incorrect, intuitiveresponse that must be inhibited in order to provide a correct,analytic response. We compared children’s and adults’performance on these questions (dubbed the CRT-D) toseveral measures of rational thinking (denominator neglect,base rate sensitivity, syllogistic reasoning, otherside thinking)and thinking dispositions (actively open-minded thinking,need for cognition). The CRT-D was a significant predictor ofrational thinking and normative thinking dispositions in bothchildren and adults. Moreover, performance on the CRT-Dcorrelated with performance on the original CRT in adults,and in children, it predicted rational thinking and normativethinking dispositions above and beyond age. These resultssuggest that the CRT-D is a valid measure of children’scognitive reflection and pave the way for future investigationsof its development and its developmental consequences.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"cognitive reflection"},{"word":"rational thinking"},{"word":"Cognitive Development"}],"section":"Publication-based-Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/18x525bn","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Andrew","middle_name":"G","last_name":"Young","name_suffix":"","institution":"Occidental College","department":""},{"first_name":"Allison","middle_name":"","last_name":"Powers","name_suffix":"","institution":"Occidental College","department":""},{"first_name":"Lesley","middle_name":"","last_name":"Pilgrim","name_suffix":"","institution":"Occidental College","department":""},{"first_name":"Andrew","middle_name":"","last_name":"Shtulman","name_suffix":"","institution":"Occidental College","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27920/galley/17558/download/"}]}