Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Damage to Broca's area typically causes difficulty with:

1. AUnderstanding spoken words
2. BForming new memories
3. CProducing fluent speech
4. DRecognising faces

The tendency to search for information that supports what we already believe is called:

1. AFundamental attribution error
2. BHindsight bias
3. CConfirmation bias
4. DAnchoring

Selective attention is best illustrated by:

1. ARecognising a face you have seen before
2. BSolving an arithmetic problem
3. CRemembering a phone number for a few seconds
4. DFollowing one conversation at a noisy party

Which working memory component is most heavily used when you switch between two tasks and decide what to focus on?

1. AThe central executive
2. BThe visuospatial sketchpad
3. CThe phonological loop
4. DIconic memory

A student who studied while drinking coffee recalls more when tested after drinking coffee. This illustrates:

1. AFlashbulb memory
2. BThe serial position effect
3. CThe spacing effect
4. DState-dependent memory

Baddeley added the episodic buffer to the working memory model to explain how working memory:

1. ARehearses speech sounds silently with an inner voice
2. BDirects attention and switches between tasks
3. CStores visual information for a fraction of a second
4. DBinds information from different sources and from long-term memory

In a city, 85% of cabs are green and 15% are blue. A witness who is correct 80% of the time says the cab in an accident was blue. What is the probability it really was blue?

1. AAbout 41%
2. BAbout 80%
3. CAbout 15%
4. DAbout 68%

A patient with a long history of heavy alcohol use cannot form new memories and fills gaps with invented stories that he believes. This is typical of:

1. ADissociative amnesia
2. BKorsakoff's syndrome
3. CWernicke's aphasia
4. DRetrograde amnesia only