The thousand-question Spanish general knowledge database

  1. Francisco Buades-Sitjar 1
  2. Roger Boada 2
  3. Marc Guasch 2
  4. Pilar Ferré 2
  5. José Antonio Hinojosa 1
  6. Marc Brysbaert 3
  7. Jon Andoni Duñabeitia 1
  1. 1 Universidad Antonio de Nebrija, Madrid, Spain
  2. 2 Universitat Rovira i Virgili
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    Universitat Rovira i Virgili

    Tarragona, España

    ROR https://ror.org/00g5sqv46

  3. 3 Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Revista:
Psicológica: Revista de metodología y psicología experimental

ISSN: 1576-8597

Año de publicación: 2021

Volumen: 42

Número: 1

Páginas: 109-119

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.2478/PSICOLJ-2021-0006 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

Otras publicaciones en: Psicológica: Revista de metodología y psicología experimental

Objetivos de desarrollo sostenible

Resumen

General knowledge questionnaires have been ubiquitously used to study a wide variety of phenomena, such as illusory truth, error correction and tip-of-the-tongue situations. However, their normings are highly restricted to the territory and the time periodthey in which they were obtained. This requires that new normings are obtained for each new territory in which they be used. Here, we present a new set of 1364 general knowledge questions normed for a Spanish population. The questions span a total of 37 different fields of knowledge and an extensive range of difficulty levels. They are formulated in a multiple-choice format, and pick rates for the correct answer as well as for the three incorrect response options are provided. We hope that a database of such size and flexibility will prove to be a useful research tool for the Spanish community.

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