Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Declarative memory, which can be consciously recalled and put into words, is also called:

1. AMotor memory
2. BExplicit memory
3. CImplicit memory
4. DSensory memory

Forgetting because new information interferes with remembering old information is called:

1. ADecay
2. BProactive interference
3. CRepression
4. DRetroactive interference

What is a heuristic?

1. AA type of long-term memory
2. BA step-by-step procedure that always finds the right answer
3. CA disorder of perception
4. DA mental shortcut used to make judgements quickly

In January you keep writing last year's date on forms. This is an example of:

1. AEncoding failure
2. BRetroactive interference
3. CAnterograde amnesia
4. DProactive interference

"All mammals breathe air. Whales are mammals. Therefore whales breathe air." This is an example of:

1. AAnalogical reasoning
2. BThe availability heuristic
3. CInductive reasoning
4. DDeductive reasoning

Broadbent's filter model of attention proposes that unattended messages are:

1. AWeakened but still analysed for important meanings, such as names
2. BProcessed at the same level as the attended message
3. CFully analysed for meaning and then quickly forgotten
4. DBlocked by physical features before meaning is analysed

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. AAll long-term memory depends on a single system
2. BProcedural memory can survive severe loss of episodic memory
3. CEpisodic memory is needed to perform any skill
4. DMusical skills are stored in short-term memory

Strayer and Johnston found that hands-free phone conversations impaired simulated driving about as much as hand-held ones. What does this suggest?

1. ATalking to a passenger in the car is just as distracting in every case
2. BThe main cost of phoning while driving is attentional, not manual
3. CHolding a phone is the only problem when driving
4. DDriving is a fully automatic task