Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

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1.Easy

Damage to Broca's area typically causes difficulty with:

  1. AUnderstanding spoken words
  2. BForming new memories
  3. CProducing fluent speech
  4. DRecognising faces
2.Easy

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

  1. AConsolidation
  2. BMaintenance rehearsal
  3. CChunking
  4. DElaborative rehearsal
3.Easy

Which method records the brain's electrical activity through electrodes on the scalp and has excellent temporal resolution?

  1. AEEG
  2. BfMRI
  3. CPET
  4. DCT
4.Medium

In the Brown–Peterson task, participants count backwards by threes after seeing a trigram such as "KTR". The main finding was that:

  1. ARecall stayed almost perfect even after 18 seconds of counting
  2. BRecall fell sharply within about 18 seconds without rehearsal
  3. CCounting backwards made the trigrams easier to remember
  4. DOnly the first letter of each trigram tended to be forgotten
5.Medium

Kosslyn found that the time to mentally scan between two landmarks on an imagined map increased with their distance. This suggests that mental images:

  1. AAre stored only as abstract verbal descriptions of the scene
  2. BPreserve spatial relationships of the real scene
  3. CAre processed in the phonological loop
  4. DCannot be inspected once formed
6.Medium

In Shepard and Metzler's mental rotation task, the time to decide whether two 3D shapes are the same:

  1. AIs the same whatever the angle of rotation is
  2. BDepends mainly on how complex the shapes are
  3. CIncreases with the angle between the two shapes
  4. DDecreases as the angle between them gets larger
7.Hard

A participant solves anagrams faster after seeing related words briefly, without being aware of them. This is an example of:

  1. ARehearsal
  2. BInterference
  3. CChunking
  4. DPriming
8.Hard

Chase and Simon showed chess positions briefly to experts and novices. Experts recalled real game positions much better, but not random positions. This suggests expertise relies on:

  1. APhotographic iconic memory
  2. BA larger short-term memory capacity in general
  3. CChunks of meaningful patterns stored in long-term memory
  4. DBetter eyesight

Answer key

  1. 1. C · Producing fluent speech
  2. 2. B · Maintenance rehearsal
  3. 3. A · EEG
  4. 4. B · Recall fell sharply within about 18 seconds without rehearsal
  5. 5. B · Preserve spatial relationships of the real scene
  6. 6. C · Increases with the angle between the two shapes
  7. 7. D · Priming
  8. 8. C · Chunks of meaningful patterns stored in long-term memory

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