Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Repeating a phone number over and over to keep it in mind is called:

1. AElaborative rehearsal
2. BChunking
3. CMaintenance rehearsal
4. DConsolidation

Remembering what you did at your tenth birthday party relies mainly on:

1. AProcedural memory
2. BSemantic memory
3. CIconic memory
4. DEpisodic memory

Believing that after five tails in a row a fair coin is "due" to land heads is the:

1. AHindsight bias
2. BEndowment effect
3. CGambler's fallacy
4. DSunk cost fallacy

Inattentional blindness is shown by the study in which participants failed to notice:

1. AA person in a gorilla suit walking through a basketball game
2. BA word flashed below the threshold of awareness
3. CA tone played in one ear
4. DA change in the colour of a single letter

Which feature is typical of an automatic process, such as reading a familiar word?

1. AIt is fast and hard to stop once started
2. BIt needs a lot of conscious effort
3. CIt can only be done slowly, one step at a time
4. DIt is easily disrupted by a second task

Which working memory component is most heavily used when you switch between two tasks and decide what to focus on?

1. AThe visuospatial sketchpad
2. BThe phonological loop
3. CIconic memory
4. DThe central executive

Glanzer and Cunitz had participants count for 30 seconds between hearing a list and recalling it. Which result did they find?

1. AThe recency effect disappeared, but the primacy effect remained
2. BBoth effects became larger
3. CRecall became equal at all positions except the middle
4. DThe primacy effect disappeared, but the recency effect remained

The "tip-of-the-tongue" state is evidence that:

1. AInformation can be stored but temporarily not retrievable
2. BMemories decay within seconds
3. CThe information was never encoded
4. DLanguage is stored only in short-term memory