Consistency within change: Evaluating the psychometric properties of a widely used predictive-inference task.

ABSTRACT: Rapid adaptation to sudden changes in the environment is a hallmark of flexible human behaviour. Many computational, neuroimaging, and even clinical investigations studying this cognitive process have relied on a behavioural paradigm known as the predictive-inference task. However, the psychometric quality of this task has never been examined, leaving unanswered whether it is indeed suited to capture behavioural variation on a within- and between-subject level. Using a large-scale test-retest design (T1: N = 330; T2: N = 219), we assessed the internal (internal consistency) and temporal (test-retest reliability) stability of the task's most used measures. We show that the main measures capturing flexible belief and behavioural adaptation yield good internal consistency and overall satisfyi

SUBMITTER: Loosen AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11362202 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature