Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

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

1. AEpisodic memory
2. BProcedural memory
3. CIconic memory
4. DSemantic memory

Riding a bicycle without thinking about it relies mainly on:

1. AIconic memory
2. BEpisodic memory
3. CSemantic memory
4. DProcedural memory

Declarative memory, which can be consciously recalled and put into words, is also called:

1. AImplicit memory
2. BMotor memory
3. CSensory memory
4. DExplicit memory

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. ASunk cost fallacy
2. BAnchoring effect
3. CGambler's fallacy
4. DEndowment effect

Baddeley added the episodic buffer to the working memory model to explain how working memory:

1. ABinds information from different sources and from long-term memory
2. BStores visual information for a fraction of a second
3. CDirects attention and switches between tasks
4. DRehearses speech sounds silently with an inner voice

Loftus and Palmer's car crash study showed that:

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

Which finding supports a reconstructive view of memory (Bartlett)?

1. AShort-term memory holds about seven items
2. BPeople retelling an unfamiliar story change it to fit their own culture
3. CPeople can recall long lists of digits perfectly
4. DMemories of emotional events never change

According to Lavie's load theory of attention, an irrelevant distractor is most likely to be processed when:

1. AThe distractor is presented to the blind spot
2. BThe main task has low perceptual load
3. CThe participant is told to ignore it
4. DThe main task has high perceptual load