Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Which of these is a binocular depth cue?

1. ARetinal disparity
2. BInterposition
3. CLinear perspective
4. DTexture gradient

A multiple-choice exam mainly tests which kind of retrieval?

1. AFree recall
2. BSerial recall
3. CRelearning
4. DRecognition

Riding a bicycle without thinking about it relies mainly on:

1. AProcedural memory
2. BSemantic memory
3. CEpisodic memory
4. DIconic memory

In Shepard and Metzler's mental rotation task, the time to decide whether two 3D shapes are the same:

1. AIncreases with the angle between the two shapes
2. BIs the same whatever the angle of rotation is
3. CDecreases as the angle between them gets larger
4. DDepends mainly on how complex the shapes are

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

1. AThe law of closure
2. BFigure–ground organisation
3. CRetinal disparity
4. DSize constancy

Inattentional blindness is shown by the study in which participants failed to notice:

1. AA person in a gorilla suit walking through a basketball game
2. BA tone played in one ear
3. CA word flashed below the threshold of awareness
4. DA change in the colour of a single letter

Gick and Holyoak gave participants a story about an army attacking a fortress from many sides, then Duncker's radiation problem. What did they find?

1. AFew used the analogy until told the story might help
2. BThe story made the radiation problem harder to solve
3. CNobody could solve the radiation problem, even with a hint
4. DAlmost everyone used the analogy without needing any hint

Morris, Bransford and Franks found that words processed for rhyme were better recognised in a rhyming test than words processed for meaning. This challenges levels of processing because:

1. AShallow processing is always better than deep processing
2. BMeaning cannot be processed during learning
3. CMemory depends on the match between encoding and test, not only on depth
4. DRhyming words are stored in iconic memory