Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

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1.Easy

Damage to Wernicke's area typically causes:

  1. ALoss of the ability to read but not to write
  2. BSlow, effortful speech with good comprehension
  3. CFluent but largely meaningless speech with poor comprehension
  4. DLoss of the ability to recognise familiar faces
2.Easy

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

  1. AProcedural memory
  2. BIconic memory
  3. CSemantic memory
  4. DEpisodic memory
3.Easy

Knowing the usual order of events when eating at a restaurant (being seated, ordering, eating, paying) is called a:

  1. APhoneme
  2. BHeuristic
  3. CScript
  4. DPrototype
4.Medium

People recall more words from a list of short words (e.g. "cat, sun") than from a list of long words. The usual explanation is that:

  1. ALong words are processed more deeply and so crowd each other out
  2. BLong words cause retroactive interference with earlier items
  3. CShort words are held in iconic memory as well as acoustically
  4. DShort words take less time to rehearse in the phonological loop
5.Medium

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

  1. AThe word length effect in verbal memory
  2. BFalse memories produced by related associations
  3. CRapid decay of items in iconic memory
  4. DNear-perfect recall of meaningful, related word lists
6.Medium

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. CThe multi-store model of memory
  4. DFeature integration theory
7.Hard

In prospect theory, losses typically feel:

  1. AAbout twice as strong as gains of the same size
  2. BWeaker than gains of the same size
  3. CExactly as strong as gains of the same size, on average
  4. DStrong only when they are certain
8.Hard

In Luchins' water jar problems, after solving several problems with the formula B − A − 2C, many participants kept using it even when a simpler solution (A − C) worked. This shows:

  1. ASudden insight into the structure of the problem
  2. BFunctional fixedness about what the jars can be used for
  3. CProactive interference in short-term memory
  4. DA mental set (Einstellung) that hides simpler solutions

Answer key

  1. 1. C · Fluent but largely meaningless speech with poor comprehension
  2. 2. D · Episodic memory
  3. 3. C · Script
  4. 4. D · Short words take less time to rehearse in the phonological loop
  5. 5. B · False memories produced by related associations
  6. 6. B · Prototype theory and graded category membership
  7. 7. A · About twice as strong as gains of the same size
  8. 8. D · A mental set (Einstellung) that hides simpler solutions

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