The Relationship between Negative Affect and Reported Cognitive Failures

Table 1

Example items from the cognitive failures questionnaire.

Memory	Distractibility	Blunders	Names
Do you find you forget appointments?	Do you fail to notice signposts on the road?	Do you drop things?	Do you find you forget people’s names?
Do you forget where you put something like a newspaper or a book?	Do you start doing one thing at home and get distracted into doing something else (unintentionally)?	Do you bump into people?	Do you fail to listen to people’s names when you are meeting them?