Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

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

1. AFraming effect
2. BAvailability heuristic
3. CSunk cost fallacy
4. DGambler's fallacy

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

1. AMaintenance rehearsal
2. BElaborative rehearsal
3. CChunking
4. DConsolidation

Knowing that you understand a topic well enough to stop studying is an example of:

1. AHabituation
2. BProactive interference
3. CPriming
4. DMetacognition

Which of these is an ill-defined problem?

1. ACompleting a Tower of Hanoi puzzle
2. BFinding the sum of two numbers
3. CSolving an anagram
4. DDesigning a pleasant garden

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

1. AFeature integration theory
2. BPrototype theory and graded category membership
3. CThe multi-store model of memory
4. DThe classical view that all members are equally good examples

A friend walking away from you does not seem to shrink, even though their image on your retina gets smaller. This is called:

1. AShape constancy
2. BSize constancy
3. CFigure–ground organisation
4. DLinear perspective

Strayer and Johnston found that hands-free phone conversations impaired simulated driving about as much as hand-held ones. What does this suggest?

1. ATalking to a passenger in the car is just as distracting in every case
2. BThe main cost of phoning while driving is attentional, not manual
3. CHolding a phone is the only problem when driving
4. DDriving is a fully automatic task

Change blindness experiments show that people often:

1. AAre better at spotting changes in faces than in objects in all cases
2. BFail to notice large changes in a scene when the change happens during a brief interruption
3. CNotice every small change in their visual field
4. DSee changes only in colour, not in shape