Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Damage to Broca's area typically causes difficulty with:

1. ARecognising faces
2. BUnderstanding spoken words
3. CProducing fluent speech
4. DForming new memories

Generating many different possible uses for a brick is an example of:

1. AConvergent thinking
2. BDivergent thinking
3. CDeductive reasoning
4. DFunctional fixedness

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

1. APrototype
2. BScript
3. CHeuristic
4. DPhoneme

In Collins and Quillian's hierarchical network model, why does "A canary is an animal" take longer to verify than "A canary is a bird"?

1. AMore levels must be travelled to reach "animal"
2. B"Animal" is a longer and less frequent word than "bird"
3. CCanaries are rated as untypical members of "animal"
4. DThe sentence contains more letters to read

Which of these is an ill-defined problem?

1. ASolving an anagram
2. BFinding the sum of two numbers
3. CDesigning a pleasant garden
4. DCompleting a Tower of Hanoi puzzle

A patient can no longer form new long-term memories after brain surgery but remembers events from before the operation. This is called:

1. AAnterograde amnesia
2. BRetrograde amnesia
3. CDissociative amnesia
4. DInfantile amnesia

Moray found that people often noticed their own name in the unattended ear during shadowing. Why was this a problem for Broadbent's filter model?

1. AIt proves that both ears are always attended to equally
2. BIt shows some unattended input is analysed for meaning
3. CIt shows that people cannot shadow at all
4. DIt shows names are stored in iconic memory

In prospect theory, losses typically feel:

1. AAbout twice as strong as gains of the same size
2. BExactly as strong as gains of the same size, on average
3. CStrong only when they are certain
4. DWeaker than gains of the same size