Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Trying to perform two tasks at the same time, such as texting while listening to a lecture, involves:

1. ASustained attention
2. BIconic memory
3. CDivided attention
4. DSelective attention

Damage to Broca's area typically causes difficulty with:

1. ARecognising faces
2. BProducing fluent speech
3. CForming new memories
4. DUnderstanding spoken words

Who first measured the "forgetting curve" using nonsense syllables?

1. AEndel Tulving
2. BUlric Neisser
3. CHermann Ebbinghaus
4. DFrederic Bartlett

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

1. ASize constancy
2. BFigure–ground organisation
3. CLinear perspective
4. DShape constancy

People often accept an invalid syllogism if its conclusion sounds true, such as "Some vitamins are healthy". This is called:

1. ASelf-serving bias
2. BHindsight bias
3. CBelief bias
4. DAnchoring

People verify "A robin is a bird" faster than "A penguin is a bird". This finding supports:

1. AThe multi-store model of memory
2. BPrototype theory and graded category membership
3. CFeature integration theory
4. DThe classical view that all members are equally good examples

Clive Wearing developed severe amnesia after a brain infection and cannot remember events from moment to moment, yet he can still play the piano and conduct music. This shows that:

1. AProcedural memory can survive severe loss of episodic memory
2. BAll long-term memory depends on a single system
3. CMusical skills are stored in short-term memory
4. DEpisodic memory is needed to perform any skill

People judge that more English words begin with K than have K as the third letter, although the reverse is true. Which heuristic explains this?

1. AAnchoring: the letter K is the first value people are given
2. BAvailability: words are easier to retrieve by first letter
3. CFraming: the question describes the words as a loss
4. DRepresentativeness: K-words look like typical English words