Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

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

1. AIconic memory
2. BScreen memory
3. CProcedural memory
4. DFlashbulb memory

Riding a bicycle without thinking about it relies mainly on:

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

Who first measured the "forgetting curve" using nonsense syllables?

1. AHermann Ebbinghaus
2. BUlric Neisser
3. CFrederic Bartlett
4. DEndel Tulving

"All mammals breathe air. Whales are mammals. Therefore whales breathe air." This is an example of:

1. AAnalogical reasoning
2. BDeductive reasoning
3. CThe availability heuristic
4. DInductive reasoning

Two groups study a text. One rereads it; the other takes practice quizzes on it. A week later, the quiz group remembers more. This shows:

1. AEncoding specificity
2. BProactive interference
3. CThe testing effect
4. DThe spacing effect

Anchoring bias occurs when:

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

Patient D.F. could not report the orientation of a slot but could accurately post a card through it. Milner and Goodale used this to support the idea of:

1. AEarly selection of attention before perception
2. BSeparate visual streams for perception and action
3. CFeature binding through focused spatial attention
4. DA single visual system used for every visual task

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

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