Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

In categorisation research, a prototype is:

1. AA rare and unusual member of a category
2. BThe first example of a category that a child learns in early life
3. CA strict list of features every member must have
4. DThe most typical member or average example of a category

A multiple-choice exam mainly tests which kind of retrieval?

1. ASerial recall
2. BRelearning
3. CFree recall
4. DRecognition

Functional MRI (fMRI) measures brain activity indirectly by detecting:

1. AThe structure of white matter only
2. BChanges in blood oxygenation
3. CElectrical activity at the scalp
4. DMagnetic pulses applied to the skull

Loftus and Palmer's car crash study showed that:

1. AEyewitnesses are always accurate about speed
2. BThe wording of a question can change eyewitness memory
3. CMemory for faces is more reliable than memory for events
4. DStress improves the accuracy of recall

In Cherry's dichotic listening studies, participants shadowing one ear usually noticed which change in the unattended ear?

1. AA switch from a male to a female voice
2. BA switch from English to German in the same voice
3. CThe meaning of the words
4. DWords repeated several times

Encoding specificity means that recall is best when:

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

Gick and Holyoak gave participants a story about an army attacking a fortress from many sides, then Duncker's radiation problem. What did they find?

1. ANobody could solve the radiation problem, even with a hint
2. BAlmost everyone used the analogy without needing any hint
3. CFew used the analogy until told the story might help
4. DThe story made the radiation problem harder to solve

Clive Wearing developed severe amnesia after a brain infection and cannot remember events from moment to moment, yet he can still play the piano and conduct music. This shows that:

1. AMusical skills are stored in short-term memory
2. BAll long-term memory depends on a single system
3. CEpisodic memory is needed to perform any skill
4. DProcedural memory can survive severe loss of episodic memory