Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Remembering what you did at your tenth birthday party relies mainly on:

1. AIconic memory
2. BSemantic memory
3. CProcedural memory
4. DEpisodic memory

Which of these is a binocular depth cue?

1. ATexture gradient
2. BRetinal disparity
3. CLinear perspective
4. DInterposition

Functional fixedness is the tendency to:

1. ARemember objects better than words
2. BSee an object only in terms of its usual use
3. CSolve every problem with the same algorithm
4. DForget the purpose of an object after a delay

Two groups study a text. One rereads it; the other takes practice quizzes on it. A week later, the quiz group remembers more. This shows:

1. AProactive interference
2. BEncoding specificity
3. CThe testing effect
4. DThe spacing effect

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. ACanaries are rated as untypical members of "animal"
2. B"Animal" is a longer and less frequent word than "bird"
3. CMore levels must be travelled to reach "animal"
4. DThe sentence contains more letters to read

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

1. AEncoding failure
2. BAnterograde amnesia
3. CRetroactive interference
4. DProactive interference

Change blindness experiments show that people often:

1. AFail to notice large changes in a scene when the change happens during a brief interruption
2. BSee changes only in colour, not in shape
3. CAre better at spotting changes in faces than in objects in all cases
4. DNotice every small change in their visual field

The "tip-of-the-tongue" state is evidence that:

1. ALanguage is stored only in short-term memory
2. BInformation can be stored but temporarily not retrievable
3. CMemories decay within seconds
4. DThe information was never encoded