Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

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1.Easy

Believing that after five tails in a row a fair coin is "due" to land heads is the:

  1. AGambler's fallacy
  2. BHindsight bias
  3. CSunk cost fallacy
  4. DEndowment effect
2.Easy

Linking new information to things you already know, so it becomes meaningful, is called:

  1. AElaborative rehearsal
  2. BMaintenance rehearsal
  3. CDecay
  4. DRote repetition
3.Easy

Which method records the brain's electrical activity through electrodes on the scalp and has excellent temporal resolution?

  1. AEEG
  2. BPET
  3. CCT
  4. DfMRI
4.Medium

According to the levels-of-processing approach, which task leads to the best recall of words?

  1. ADeciding whether each word rhymes with "cat"
  2. BCounting the letters in each word
  3. CDeciding whether each word is in capital letters
  4. DDeciding whether each word fits into a sentence
5.Medium

Loftus and Palmer's car crash study showed that:

  1. AMemory for faces is more reliable than memory for events
  2. BStress improves the accuracy of recall
  3. CThe wording of a question can change eyewitness memory
  4. DEyewitnesses are always accurate about speed
6.Medium

Anchoring bias occurs when:

  1. APeople prefer options presented as gains
  2. BPeople believe after the event that they knew the outcome all along
  3. CPeople remember only the end of an experience
  4. DAn initial number strongly influences a later estimate
7.Hard

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. AAlmost everyone used the analogy without needing any hint
  2. BFew used the analogy until told the story might help
  3. CThe story made the radiation problem harder to solve
  4. DNobody could solve the radiation problem, even with a hint
8.Hard

When a video shows a face saying "ga" while the audio says "ba", many people hear "da". This shows that:

  1. APeople cannot tell similar speech sounds apart
  2. BSpeech perception combines what we see and hear
  3. CVision is ignored when we listen to speech
  4. DHearing always overrides vision when they conflict

Answer key

  1. 1. A · Gambler's fallacy
  2. 2. A · Elaborative rehearsal
  3. 3. A · EEG
  4. 4. D · Deciding whether each word fits into a sentence
  5. 5. C · The wording of a question can change eyewitness memory
  6. 6. D · An initial number strongly influences a later estimate
  7. 7. B · Few used the analogy until told the story might help
  8. 8. B · Speech perception combines what we see and hear

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