Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Which type of memory stores facts such as "Paris is the capital of France"?

1. ASemantic memory
2. BEpisodic memory
3. CSensory memory
4. DProcedural memory

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

1. AEpisodic memory
2. BIconic memory
3. CSemantic memory
4. DProcedural memory

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

1. AChunking
2. BMaintenance rehearsal
3. CElaborative rehearsal
4. DConsolidation

The cognitive interview is used by police to improve eyewitness recall. Which technique does it include?

1. AMentally reinstating the context of the event
2. BShowing the witness photos of a single suspect
3. CAsking only yes-or-no questions
4. DAsking leading questions to speed things up

The availability heuristic means people judge how likely an event is by:

1. AHow similar it is to a typical case
2. BIts actual statistical frequency
3. CHow easily examples come to mind
4. DThe first number they hear

Rubin's vase, which can be seen as a vase or as two faces, illustrates:

1. AThe law of closure
2. BRetinal disparity
3. CSize constancy
4. DFigure–ground organisation

Warren replaced one speech sound in a sentence with a cough. Listeners reported hearing the sentence intact and could not locate the cough correctly. This is evidence for:

1. ADamage to Broca's area
2. BPurely bottom-up speech perception
3. CTop-down influences in speech perception
4. DEchoic memory lasting for several minutes

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. ASpatial neglect
2. BWernicke's aphasia
3. CProsopagnosia
4. DBlindsight