Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Linking new information to things you already know, so it becomes meaningful, is called:

1. AMaintenance rehearsal
2. BRote repetition
3. CElaborative rehearsal
4. DDecay

Repeating a phone number over and over to keep it in mind is called:

1. AMaintenance rehearsal
2. BConsolidation
3. CChunking
4. DElaborative rehearsal

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

1. APrototype
2. BScript
3. CPhoneme
4. DHeuristic

The availability heuristic means people judge how likely an event is by:

1. AHow easily examples come to mind
2. BThe first number they hear
3. CHow similar it is to a typical case
4. DIts actual statistical frequency

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. AThe testing effect
2. BEncoding specificity
3. CThe spacing effect
4. DProactive interference

"All mammals breathe air. Whales are mammals. Therefore whales breathe air." This is an example of:

1. AThe availability heuristic
2. BInductive reasoning
3. CDeductive reasoning
4. DAnalogical reasoning

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. AEpisodic memory is needed to perform any skill
2. BProcedural memory can survive severe loss of episodic memory
3. CAll long-term memory depends on a single system
4. DMusical skills are stored in short-term memory

In prospect theory, losses typically feel:

1. AExactly as strong as gains of the same size, on average
2. BWeaker than gains of the same size
3. CStrong only when they are certain
4. DAbout twice as strong as gains of the same size