Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

The "cognitive revolution" of the 1950s and 1960s shifted psychology's focus towards:

1. AUnconscious sexual and aggressive drives
2. BOnly observable behaviour and reinforcement
3. CIntrospection about raw sensations only
4. DInternal mental processes such as memory and thinking

A vivid, detailed memory of where you were when you heard shocking news is called a:

1. AFlashbulb memory
2. BProcedural memory
3. CScreen memory
4. DIconic memory

Which type of memory stores facts such as "Paris is the capital of France"?

1. AProcedural memory
2. BEpisodic memory
3. CSensory memory
4. DSemantic memory

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

The idea that the language you speak influences how you think and perceive the world is known as:

1. ASemantic priming
2. BLinguistic relativity
3. CUniversal grammar
4. DPhonemic restoration

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. AProactive interference
2. BThe spacing effect
3. CThe testing effect
4. DEncoding specificity

Readers stumble on "The horse raced past the barn fell" before understanding it. What does this show about sentence processing?

1. AShort sentences are always harder than long ones
2. BPeople wait until the end of a sentence before interpreting it
3. CPeople build an interpretation word by word and must revise it when it fails
4. DGrammar plays no role in understanding

Morris, Bransford and Franks found that words processed for rhyme were better recognised in a rhyming test than words processed for meaning. This challenges levels of processing because:

1. AMeaning cannot be processed during learning
2. BMemory depends on the match between encoding and test, not only on depth
3. CRhyming words are stored in iconic memory
4. DShallow processing is always better than deep processing