Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

In cognitive psychology, a schema is:

1. AA single item held in short-term memory
2. BA sudden loss of memory after brain injury
3. CAn organised framework of knowledge about something
4. DA visual illusion caused by misleading depth cues in a scene

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

1. AFunctional fixedness
2. BDivergent thinking
3. CConvergent thinking
4. DDeductive reasoning

What is "chunking"?

1. AForgetting information in large blocks
2. BSplitting attention between two tasks
3. CGrouping information into meaningful units to remember more
4. DRepeating information aloud to remember it

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

1. AHindsight bias
2. BAnchoring
3. CSelf-serving bias
4. DBelief bias

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

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

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 finding supports a reconstructive view of memory (Bartlett)?

1. AMemories of emotional events never change
2. BShort-term memory holds about seven items
3. CPeople retelling an unfamiliar story change it to fit their own culture
4. DPeople can recall long lists of digits perfectly

The Stroop effect shows that:

1. AReading words is so automatic that it interferes with naming the ink colour
2. BAttention can be divided without any cost
3. CColour perception depends only on the eyes
4. DPeople can name colours faster than they can read words