Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

A vivid, detailed memory of where you were when you heard shocking news is called a:

1. AScreen memory
2. BProcedural memory
3. CIconic memory
4. DFlashbulb memory

Damage to Wernicke's area typically causes:

1. AFluent but largely meaningless speech with poor comprehension
2. BLoss of the ability to read but not to write
3. CSlow, effortful speech with good comprehension
4. DLoss of the ability to recognise familiar faces

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

1. AProactive interference
2. BRetroactive interference
3. CRepression
4. DDecay

A friend walking away from you does not seem to shrink, even though their image on your retina gets smaller. This is called:

1. AFigure–ground organisation
2. BShape constancy
3. CLinear perspective
4. DSize constancy

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

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

Anchoring bias occurs when:

1. APeople believe after the event that they knew the outcome all along
2. BPeople remember only the end of an experience
3. CPeople prefer options presented as gains
4. DAn initial number strongly influences a later estimate

Readers stumble on "The horse raced past the barn fell" before understanding it. What does this show about sentence processing?

1. APeople wait until the end of a sentence before interpreting it
2. BShort sentences are always harder than long ones
3. CGrammar plays no role in understanding
4. DPeople build an interpretation word by word and must revise it when it fails

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

1. ARehearsal
2. BChunking
3. CInterference
4. DPriming