Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Which memory store holds visual information for a fraction of a second?

1. AWorking memory
2. BLong-term memory
3. CEchoic memory
4. DIconic memory

Forgetting because new information interferes with remembering old information is called:

1. ARepression
2. BRetroactive interference
3. CProactive interference
4. DDecay

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

1. APrototype
2. BPhoneme
3. CHeuristic
4. DScript

Counting the windows in your house by picturing walking around it mainly uses which working memory component?

1. AThe visuospatial sketchpad
2. BThe episodic buffer
3. CLong-term procedural memory
4. DThe phonological loop

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

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

A strategy that breaks a problem into subgoals, each reducing the difference between the current state and the goal, is called:

1. AInsight
2. BTrial and error
3. CMeans–end analysis
4. DIncubation

After a stroke in the right parietal lobe, a patient eats only from the right side of the plate and draws only the right half of a clock. This is:

1. AUnilateral spatial neglect
2. BLeft visual field blindsight
3. CProsopagnosia
4. DAnterograde amnesia

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