Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

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

1. AUlric Neisser
2. BHermann Ebbinghaus
3. CEndel Tulving
4. DFrederic Bartlett

The "cognitive revolution" of the 1950s and 1960s shifted psychology's focus towards:

1. AOnly observable behaviour and reinforcement
2. BIntrospection about raw sensations only
3. CUnconscious sexual and aggressive drives
4. DInternal mental processes such as memory and thinking

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

1. AAnchoring
2. BConfirmation bias
3. CHindsight bias
4. DFundamental attribution error

In Baddeley and Hitch's working memory model, which component handles verbal and acoustic information?

1. AThe visuospatial sketchpad
2. BThe episodic buffer
3. CThe phonological loop
4. DThe central executive

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

1. AThe visuospatial sketchpad
2. BIconic memory
3. CThe central executive
4. DThe phonological loop

People verify "A robin is a bird" faster than "A penguin is a bird". This finding supports:

1. APrototype theory and graded category membership
2. BThe multi-store model of memory
3. CFeature integration theory
4. DThe classical view that all members are equally good examples

Change blindness experiments show that people often:

1. AAre better at spotting changes in faces than in objects in all cases
2. BSee changes only in colour, not in shape
3. CNotice every small change in their visual field
4. DFail to notice large changes in a scene when the change happens during a brief interruption

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. ADamage to Broca's area
2. BPurely bottom-up speech perception
3. CEchoic memory lasting for several minutes
4. DTop-down influences in speech perception