Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

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

1. AMotor memory
2. BSensory memory
3. CExplicit memory
4. DImplicit memory

Which method records the brain's electrical activity through electrodes on the scalp and has excellent temporal resolution?

1. AfMRI
2. BCT
3. CPET
4. DEEG

In cognitive psychology, a schema is:

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

Encoding specificity means that recall is best when:

1. AInformation is learned in one long session
2. BThe context at retrieval matches the context at learning
3. CLearning happens just before sleep only
4. DThe material is learned in a noisy room

In a lexical decision task, people recognise "nurse" as a word faster after seeing "doctor" than after seeing "bread". This is best explained by:

1. ARetroactive interference
2. BThe phonological similarity effect
3. CIconic memory decay
4. DSpreading activation in a semantic network

The availability heuristic means people judge how likely an event is by:

1. AThe first number they hear
2. BHow easily examples come to mind
3. CIts actual statistical frequency
4. DHow similar it is to a typical case

The Stroop effect shows that:

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

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. BFraming: the question describes the words as a loss
3. CAvailability: words are easier to retrieve by first letter
4. DRepresentativeness: K-words look like typical English words