Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Damage to Broca's area typically causes difficulty with:

1. AProducing fluent speech
2. BUnderstanding spoken words
3. CForming new memories
4. DRecognising faces

Knowing that you understand a topic well enough to stop studying is an example of:

1. AMetacognition
2. BProactive interference
3. CPriming
4. DHabituation

Which of these is a binocular depth cue?

1. ALinear perspective
2. BInterposition
3. CRetinal disparity
4. DTexture gradient

A friend walking away from you does not seem to shrink, even though their image on your retina gets smaller. This is called:

1. AFigure–ground organisation
2. BShape constancy
3. CLinear perspective
4. DSize constancy

Inattentional blindness is shown by the study in which participants failed to notice:

1. AA word flashed below the threshold of awareness
2. BA change in the colour of a single letter
3. CA tone played in one ear
4. DA person in a gorilla suit walking through a basketball game

According to the levels-of-processing approach, which task leads to the best recall of words?

1. ACounting the letters in each word
2. BDeciding whether each word is in capital letters
3. CDeciding whether each word fits into a sentence
4. DDeciding whether each word rhymes with "cat"

A patient with damage to primary visual cortex says he sees nothing in part of his visual field, yet points to objects there well above chance. This is called:

1. AInattentional blindness
2. BBlindsight
3. CChange blindness
4. DProsopagnosia

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. BAre better at spotting changes in faces than in objects in all cases
3. CSee changes only in colour, not in shape
4. DNotice every small change in their visual field