Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

What is "chunking"?

1. AForgetting information in large blocks
2. BGrouping information into meaningful units to remember more
3. CRepeating information aloud to remember it
4. DSplitting attention between two tasks

Which method records the brain's electrical activity through electrodes on the scalp and has excellent temporal resolution?

1. AfMRI
2. BEEG
3. CCT
4. DPET

Which memory store holds visual information for a fraction of a second?

1. AWorking memory
2. BLong-term memory
3. CIconic memory
4. DEchoic 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. AGambler's fallacy
2. BSunk cost fallacy
3. CEndowment effect
4. DAnchoring effect

The serial position effect predicts that items in a list are recalled best when they are:

1. AOnly at the beginning of the list
2. BRandomly placed, whatever the length of the list
3. CIn the middle of the list
4. DAt the beginning and end of the list

A friend walking away from you does not seem to shrink, even though their image on your retina gets smaller. This is called:

1. AShape constancy
2. BSize constancy
3. CFigure–ground organisation
4. DLinear perspective

H.M. practised mirror drawing over several days. His performance improved steadily, yet each day he said he had never done the task before. What does this show?

1. AMirror drawing depends mainly on the hippocampus
2. BH.M. was only pretending not to remember the sessions
3. CSkills can be learned without remembering the practice
4. DHis improvement came from rehearsal in short-term memory

A patient with a long history of heavy alcohol use cannot form new memories and fills gaps with invented stories that he believes. This is typical of:

1. AKorsakoff's syndrome
2. BDissociative amnesia
3. CRetrograde amnesia only
4. DWernicke's aphasia