A search for cognitive dimension of everyday life activities

The aim of this paper to determine the Cognitive dimension of Everyday Life Activities. For measuring everyday life activities, an attempt has made to construct a scale. The scale named as Daily Life Cognitive Efficiency scale. Initially 45 statements were taken concerning 6 conceptual fields. These conceptual subscales are i) systematic, ii) target fulfillment, iii) self-affordance, Iv) evaluation of task v) object placement and vi) multitasking. Each dimensions further consisted of several key cognitive features. In particular, the paper reported the responses of 100 Bengali students (both UG and PG) from different departments of Jadavpur University.The results of the present study provide the final scale, which consists of all the 37 items of the initial Daily Life Cognitive Efficiency scale (DLCES) and for which strong evidence was ascertained. The result reveals that, our daily life activities encompass several cognitive abilities which are rooted in categorization.