Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

The representativeness heuristic means judging the probability of something by:

1. AThe first number you were given
2. BHow closely it resembles a typical example
3. CHow much time or money you have already invested in it
4. DHow easily examples come to mind

Knowing that you understand a topic well enough to stop studying is an example of:

1. APriming
2. BHabituation
3. CProactive interference
4. DMetacognition

Which part of the retina gives the sharpest, most detailed vision?

1. AThe optic chiasm
2. BThe periphery
3. CThe blind spot
4. DThe fovea

Students given a coffee mug ask for a much higher price to sell it than other students will pay to buy it. This is the:

1. AGambler's fallacy
2. BAnchoring effect
3. CSunk cost fallacy
4. DEndowment effect

After studying the words "bed, rest, tired, dream, snooze", many people falsely recall "sleep". This paradigm demonstrates:

1. AFalse memories produced by related associations
2. BNear-perfect recall of meaningful, related word lists
3. CThe word length effect in verbal memory
4. DRapid decay of items in iconic memory

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

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

In Sperling's experiments, participants saw a 3 × 4 grid of letters briefly. When a tone signalled which row to report immediately afterwards, they could report most letters of that row. What did this show?

1. AIconic memory holds only about four letters, however they are tested
2. BHearing a warning tone improves visual perception of nearby letters in general
3. CMost of the display is briefly held but fades before it can all be reported
4. DBriefly seen letters are transferred into long-term memory at once

Glanzer and Cunitz had participants count for 30 seconds between hearing a list and recalling it. Which result did they find?

1. AThe recency effect disappeared, but the primacy effect remained
2. BBoth effects became larger
3. CThe primacy effect disappeared, but the recency effect remained
4. DRecall became equal at all positions except the middle