Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Damage to Broca's area typically causes difficulty with:

1. AProducing fluent speech
2. BUnderstanding spoken words
3. CForming new memories
4. DRecognising faces

Remembering what you did at your tenth birthday party relies mainly on:

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

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

1. AFree recall
2. BRecognition
3. CSerial recall
4. DRelearning

In dual-process theory, which task most clearly requires System 2 thinking?

1. ARecognising a friend's face
2. BNoticing that a sound is loud
3. CWorking out 17 × 24 in your head
4. DReading a large familiar word on a road sign

Lists of similar-sounding letters (B, G, V, T) are harder to recall immediately than dissimilar letters (F, K, Y, W). This suggests short-term memory:

1. AStores letters mainly as visual images of their shapes
2. BHas unlimited capacity for letters
3. CMainly codes information by meaning
4. DMainly codes verbal information acoustically

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

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

In the Wason selection task, cards show E, K, 4 and 7. The rule is "If a card has a vowel on one side, it has an even number on the other". Which cards must be turned to test the rule?

1. AE and 7
2. BE only
3. CE, 4 and 7
4. DE and 4

Moray found that people often noticed their own name in the unattended ear during shadowing. Why was this a problem for Broadbent's filter model?

1. AIt shows names are stored in iconic memory
2. BIt proves that both ears are always attended to equally
3. CIt shows some unattended input is analysed for meaning
4. DIt shows that people cannot shadow at all