Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Damage to Broca's area typically causes difficulty with:

1. ARecognising faces
2. BProducing fluent speech
3. CUnderstanding spoken words
4. DForming new memories

Damage to Wernicke's area typically causes:

1. ALoss of the ability to read but not to write
2. BSlow, effortful speech with good comprehension
3. CLoss of the ability to recognise familiar faces
4. DFluent but largely meaningless speech with poor comprehension

The feeling after an event that "I knew it all along" is called:

1. AAnchoring
2. BConfirmation bias
3. COverconfidence
4. DHindsight bias

Repeating "the, the, the" aloud while learning a word list impairs recall because it:

1. ABlocks rehearsal in the phonological loop
2. BPrevents the eyes from reading the words
3. COverloads the visuospatial sketchpad
4. DErases information already in long-term memory

People verify "A robin is a bird" faster than "A penguin is a bird". This finding supports:

1. AThe classical view that all members are equally good examples
2. BFeature integration theory
3. CPrototype theory and graded category membership
4. DThe multi-store model of memory

In January you keep writing last year's date on forms. This is an example of:

1. ARetroactive interference
2. BAnterograde amnesia
3. CEncoding failure
4. DProactive interference

Moray found that people often noticed their own name in the unattended ear during shadowing. Why was this a problem for Broadbent's filter model?

1. AIt shows names are stored in iconic memory
2. BIt shows some unattended input is analysed for meaning
3. CIt proves that both ears are always attended to equally
4. DIt shows that people cannot shadow at all

Change blindness experiments show that people often:

1. AAre better at spotting changes in faces than in objects in all cases
2. BNotice every small change in their visual field
3. CFail to notice large changes in a scene when the change happens during a brief interruption
4. DSee changes only in colour, not in shape