Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Trying to perform two tasks at the same time, such as texting while listening to a lecture, involves:

1. ASelective attention
2. BDivided attention
3. CSustained attention
4. DIconic memory

A vivid, detailed memory of where you were when you heard shocking news is called a:

1. AIconic memory
2. BScreen memory
3. CFlashbulb memory
4. DProcedural memory

Knowing the usual order of events when eating at a restaurant (being seated, ordering, eating, paying) is called a:

1. AScript
2. BPrototype
3. CHeuristic
4. DPhoneme

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. AEncoding specificity
2. BThe spacing effect
3. CProactive interference
4. DThe testing effect

Encoding specificity means that recall is best when:

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

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

1. ARetroactive interference
2. BEncoding failure
3. CAnterograde amnesia
4. DProactive interference

In Posner's cueing task, responses are faster after a valid cue and slower after an invalid cue, even when the eyes do not move. This shows that:

1. AAttention always follows the direction of gaze
2. BAttention can shift to a location without moving the eyes
3. CCues have no real effect on how fast targets are processed
4. DPeripheral vision cannot detect targets without eye movement

In rapid serial visual presentation, people often miss a second target that appears about 200–500 ms after the first. This is called:

1. AIconic decay
2. BInhibition of return
3. CThe attentional blink
4. DChange blindness