Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

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

1. APhoneme
2. BPrototype
3. CScript
4. DHeuristic

The "cognitive revolution" of the 1950s and 1960s shifted psychology's focus towards:

1. AInternal mental processes such as memory and thinking
2. BUnconscious sexual and aggressive drives
3. COnly observable behaviour and reinforcement
4. DIntrospection about raw sensations only

Köhler's chimpanzees, who suddenly stacked boxes to reach bananas, are a classic example of:

1. ATrial-and-error learning
2. BMental set
3. CFunctional fixedness
4. DInsight

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. CEyewitnesses are always accurate about speed
4. DThe wording of a question can change eyewitness memory

The availability heuristic means people judge how likely an event is by:

1. AHow similar it is to a typical case
2. BIts actual statistical frequency
3. CThe first number they hear
4. DHow easily examples come to mind

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. CEndowment effect
4. DGambler's fallacy

In Sperling's experiments, participants saw a 3 × 4 grid of letters briefly. When a tone signalled which row to report immediately afterwards, they could report most letters of that row. What did this show?

1. AHearing a warning tone improves visual perception of nearby letters in general
2. BBriefly seen letters are transferred into long-term memory at once
3. CMost of the display is briefly held but fades before it can all be reported
4. DIconic memory holds only about four letters, however they are tested

A patient with damage to primary visual cortex says he sees nothing in part of his visual field, yet points to objects there well above chance. This is called:

1. AProsopagnosia
2. BChange blindness
3. CInattentional blindness
4. DBlindsight