Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Damage to Broca's area typically causes difficulty with:

1. AUnderstanding spoken words
2. BRecognising faces
3. CForming new memories
4. DProducing fluent speech

A vivid, detailed memory of where you were when you heard shocking news is called a:

1. AIconic memory
2. BScreen memory
3. CProcedural memory
4. DFlashbulb memory

The representativeness heuristic means judging the probability of something by:

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

The idea that the language you speak influences how you think and perceive the world is known as:

1. APhonemic restoration
2. BLinguistic relativity
3. CSemantic priming
4. DUniversal grammar

Which working memory component is most heavily used when you switch between two tasks and decide what to focus on?

1. AThe visuospatial sketchpad
2. BThe phonological loop
3. CThe central executive
4. DIconic memory

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

1. AStores visual information for a fraction of a second
2. BBinds information from different sources and from long-term memory
3. CRehearses speech sounds silently with an inner voice
4. DDirects attention and switches between tasks

Countries where people are organ donors unless they opt out have far higher donor rates than countries where people must opt in. This is best explained by:

1. AThe default effect and status quo bias
2. BBelief bias in moral reasoning about donation
3. CThe sunk cost fallacy
4. DThe availability heuristic

In Treisman's feature integration theory, why is finding a red X among red Os and blue Xs slow?

1. ARed is processed more slowly than blue
2. BCombining features (a conjunction) requires focused attention to each item
3. CLetters cannot be searched visually
4. DSingle features cannot be detected without attention