Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

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

1. ACT
2. BEEG
3. CPET
4. DfMRI

What is "chunking"?

1. ASplitting attention between two tasks
2. BForgetting information in large blocks
3. CRepeating information aloud to remember it
4. DGrouping information into meaningful units to remember more

Believing that after five tails in a row a fair coin is "due" to land heads is the:

1. AGambler's fallacy
2. BSunk cost fallacy
3. CHindsight bias
4. DEndowment 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. AMore levels must be travelled to reach "animal"
2. B"Animal" is a longer and less frequent word than "bird"
3. CThe sentence contains more letters to read
4. DCanaries are rated as untypical members of "animal"

People verify "A robin is a bird" faster than "A penguin is a bird". This finding supports:

1. AThe multi-store model of memory
2. BThe classical view that all members are equally good examples
3. CPrototype theory and graded category membership
4. DFeature integration theory

The serial position effect predicts that items in a list are recalled best when they are:

1. ARandomly placed, whatever the length of the list
2. BAt the beginning and end of the list
3. COnly at the beginning of the list
4. DIn the middle of the list

In a city, 85% of cabs are green and 15% are blue. A witness who is correct 80% of the time says the cab in an accident was blue. What is the probability it really was blue?

1. AAbout 15%
2. BAbout 68%
3. CAbout 80%
4. DAbout 41%

The Stroop effect shows that:

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