Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

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1.Easy

Damage to Broca's area typically causes difficulty with:

  1. AProducing fluent speech
  2. BForming new memories
  3. CUnderstanding spoken words
  4. DRecognising faces
2.Easy

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

  1. AScript
  2. BHeuristic
  3. CPhoneme
  4. DPrototype
3.Easy

The Gestalt principle of proximity states that we tend to group together elements that are:

  1. ASimilar in colour
  2. BMoving in the same direction
  3. CClose to each other
  4. DForming a closed shape
4.Medium

In Shepard and Metzler's mental rotation task, the time to decide whether two 3D shapes are the same:

  1. AIncreases with the angle between the two shapes
  2. BIs the same whatever the angle of rotation is
  3. CDecreases as the angle between them gets larger
  4. DDepends mainly on how complex the shapes are
5.Medium

In dual-process theory, which task most clearly requires System 2 thinking?

  1. ARecognising a friend's face
  2. BReading a large familiar word on a road sign
  3. CNoticing that a sound is loud
  4. DWorking out 17 × 24 in your head
6.Medium

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. AAre stored only as abstract verbal descriptions of the scene
  2. BCannot be inspected once formed
  3. CPreserve spatial relationships of the real scene
  4. DAre processed in the phonological loop
7.Hard

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. ASudden insight into the structure of the problem
  2. BProactive interference in short-term memory
  3. CA mental set (Einstellung) that hides simpler solutions
  4. DFunctional fixedness about what the jars can be used for
8.Hard

A patient with damage to primary visual cortex says he sees nothing in part of his visual field, yet points to objects there well above chance. This is called:

  1. AChange blindness
  2. BBlindsight
  3. CInattentional blindness
  4. DProsopagnosia

Answer key

  1. 1. A · Producing fluent speech
  2. 2. A · Script
  3. 3. C · Close to each other
  4. 4. A · Increases with the angle between the two shapes
  5. 5. D · Working out 17 × 24 in your head
  6. 6. C · Preserve spatial relationships of the real scene
  7. 7. C · A mental set (Einstellung) that hides simpler solutions
  8. 8. B · Blindsight

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