Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Remembering what you did at your tenth birthday party relies mainly on:

1. AIconic memory
2. BEpisodic memory
3. CProcedural memory
4. DSemantic memory

Which researchers proposed the multi-store model of memory?

1. ABaddeley and Hitch
2. BCraik and Lockhart
3. CLoftus and Palmer
4. DAtkinson and Shiffrin

What is "chunking"?

1. AGrouping information into meaningful units to remember more
2. BSplitting attention between two tasks
3. CRepeating information aloud to remember it
4. DForgetting information in large blocks

Broadbent's filter model of attention proposes that unattended messages are:

1. AFully analysed for meaning and then quickly forgotten
2. BBlocked by physical features before meaning is analysed
3. CProcessed at the same level as the attended message
4. DWeakened but still analysed for important meanings, such as names

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

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

Which of these is an ill-defined problem?

1. ASolving an anagram
2. BCompleting a Tower of Hanoi puzzle
3. CFinding the sum of two numbers
4. DDesigning a pleasant garden

In Luchins' water jar problems, after solving several problems with the formula B − A − 2C, many participants kept using it even when a simpler solution (A − C) worked. This shows:

1. AFunctional fixedness about what the jars can be used for
2. BSudden insight into the structure of the problem
3. CProactive interference in short-term memory
4. DA mental set (Einstellung) that hides simpler solutions

A participant solves anagrams faster after seeing related words briefly, without being aware of them. This is an example of:

1. APriming
2. BChunking
3. CInterference
4. DRehearsal