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

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

1. AAnchoring
2. BHindsight bias
3. COverconfidence
4. DConfirmation bias

Generating many different possible uses for a brick is an example of:

1. ADivergent thinking
2. BDeductive reasoning
3. CFunctional fixedness
4. DConvergent thinking

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

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

A patient can no longer form new long-term memories after brain surgery but remembers events from before the operation. This is called:

1. ARetrograde amnesia
2. BDissociative amnesia
3. CInfantile amnesia
4. DAnterograde amnesia

Encoding specificity means that recall is best when:

1. AThe context at retrieval matches the context at learning
2. BInformation is learned in one long session
3. CLearning happens just before sleep only
4. DThe material is learned in a noisy room

A patient can recognise a car, a cup and a dog but cannot recognise the faces of close family members, identifying them by voice instead. This is:

1. AWernicke's aphasia
2. BSpatial neglect
3. CProsopagnosia
4. DBlindsight

A patient with damage to primary visual cortex says he sees nothing in part of his visual field, yet points to objects there well above chance. This is called:

1. AChange blindness
2. BInattentional blindness
3. CBlindsight
4. DProsopagnosia