Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Which of these is a binocular depth cue?

1. ATexture gradient
2. BRetinal disparity
3. CLinear perspective
4. DInterposition

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

1. AGambler's fallacy
2. BHindsight bias
3. CSunk cost fallacy
4. DEndowment effect

Selective attention is best illustrated by:

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

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. CLearning happens just before sleep only
4. DThe context at retrieval matches the context at learning

Which feature is typical of an automatic process, such as reading a familiar word?

1. AIt is easily disrupted by a second task
2. BIt can only be done slowly, one step at a time
3. CIt needs a lot of conscious effort
4. DIt is fast and hard to stop once started

Kosslyn found that the time to mentally scan between two landmarks on an imagined map increased with their distance. This suggests that mental images:

1. APreserve spatial relationships of the real scene
2. BAre processed in the phonological loop
3. CCannot be inspected once formed
4. DAre stored only as abstract verbal descriptions of the scene

Chase and Simon showed chess positions briefly to experts and novices. Experts recalled real game positions much better, but not random positions. This suggests expertise relies on:

1. AChunks of meaningful patterns stored in long-term memory
2. BBetter eyesight
3. CPhotographic iconic memory
4. DA larger short-term memory capacity in general

When older adults recall autobiographical memories, they recall a disproportionately large number from roughly ages 10 to 30. This is called:

1. AThe recency effect
2. BInfantile amnesia
3. CFlashbulb memory
4. DThe reminiscence bump