Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

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1.Easy

Knowing the usual order of events when eating at a restaurant (being seated, ordering, eating, paying) is called a:

  1. AHeuristic
  2. BPrototype
  3. CScript
  4. DPhoneme
2.Easy

What is "chunking"?

  1. ARepeating information aloud to remember it
  2. BGrouping information into meaningful units to remember more
  3. CSplitting attention between two tasks
  4. DForgetting information in large blocks
3.Easy

Which part of the retina gives the sharpest, most detailed vision?

  1. AThe periphery
  2. BThe blind spot
  3. CThe fovea
  4. DThe optic chiasm
4.Medium

In dual-process theory, which task most clearly requires System 2 thinking?

  1. ARecognising a friend's face
  2. BNoticing that a sound is loud
  3. CWorking out 17 × 24 in your head
  4. DReading a large familiar word on a road sign
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 processed in the phonological loop
  2. BAre stored only as abstract verbal descriptions of the scene
  3. CPreserve spatial relationships of the real scene
  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. ADecreases as the angle between them gets larger
  2. BIs the same whatever the angle of rotation is
  3. CIncreases with the angle between the two shapes
  4. DDepends mainly on how complex the shapes are
7.Hard

H.M. practised mirror drawing over several days. His performance improved steadily, yet each day he said he had never done the task before. What does this show?

  1. ASkills can be learned without remembering the practice
  2. BH.M. was only pretending not to remember the sessions
  3. CMirror drawing depends mainly on the hippocampus
  4. DHis improvement came from rehearsal in short-term memory
8.Hard

People judge that more English words begin with K than have K as the third letter, although the reverse is true. Which heuristic explains this?

  1. AFraming: the question describes the words as a loss
  2. BRepresentativeness: K-words look like typical English words
  3. CAnchoring: the letter K is the first value people are given
  4. DAvailability: words are easier to retrieve by first letter

Answer key

  1. 1. C · Script
  2. 2. B · Grouping information into meaningful units to remember more
  3. 3. C · The fovea
  4. 4. C · Working out 17 × 24 in your head
  5. 5. C · Preserve spatial relationships of the real scene
  6. 6. C · Increases with the angle between the two shapes
  7. 7. A · Skills can be learned without remembering the practice
  8. 8. D · Availability: words are easier to retrieve by first letter

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