Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Damage to Wernicke's area typically causes:

1. AFluent but largely meaningless speech with poor comprehension
2. BSlow, effortful speech with good comprehension
3. CLoss of the ability to read but not to write
4. DLoss of the ability to recognise familiar faces

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

1. AEndel Tulving
2. BFrederic Bartlett
3. CUlric Neisser
4. DHermann Ebbinghaus

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

1. AFunctional fixedness
2. BMental set
3. CInsight
4. DTrial-and-error learning

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

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

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

1. ADissociative amnesia
2. BRetrograde amnesia
3. CInfantile amnesia
4. DAnterograde amnesia

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. BLinear perspective
3. CFigure–ground organisation
4. DShape constancy

Linda is described as outspoken and concerned with social justice. Many people judge "Linda is a bank teller and a feminist" more likely than "Linda is a bank teller". What is the error?

1. AThe gambler's fallacy: past events change the future odds
2. BThe conjunction fallacy: A and B cannot be likelier than A
3. CCorrect base-rate use: feminists are common among bank tellers
4. DAnchoring: the first description fixes the later estimate

Participants held a hand in painfully cold water for 60 seconds in one trial, and in another for 60 seconds plus 30 more seconds at a slightly warmer temperature. Most chose to repeat the longer trial. Why?

1. AThey were confused about which trial was which
2. BThey wanted to please the researchers by choosing more
3. CMemory of pain followed the peak and the end, not duration
4. DLonger experiences are always remembered as more pleasant ones