Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Selective attention is best illustrated by:

1. ASolving an arithmetic problem
2. BFollowing one conversation at a noisy party
3. CRecognising a face you have seen before
4. DRemembering a phone number for a few seconds

Continuing to invest in a failing project because of the money already spent is called the:

1. AGambler's fallacy
2. BSunk cost fallacy
3. CAvailability heuristic
4. DFraming effect

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

1. AHindsight bias
2. BEndowment effect
3. CSunk cost fallacy
4. DGambler's fallacy

Counting the windows in your house by picturing walking around it mainly uses which working memory component?

1. ALong-term procedural memory
2. BThe episodic buffer
3. CThe phonological loop
4. DThe visuospatial sketchpad

In Baddeley and Hitch's working memory model, which component handles verbal and acoustic information?

1. AThe phonological loop
2. BThe episodic buffer
3. CThe central executive
4. DThe visuospatial sketchpad

The idea that the language you speak influences how you think and perceive the world is known as:

1. APhonemic restoration
2. BSemantic priming
3. CUniversal grammar
4. DLinguistic relativity

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

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

Glanzer and Cunitz had participants count for 30 seconds between hearing a list and recalling it. Which result did they find?

1. ARecall became equal at all positions except the middle
2. BThe recency effect disappeared, but the primacy effect remained
3. CThe primacy effect disappeared, but the recency effect remained
4. DBoth effects became larger