Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

The representativeness heuristic means judging the probability of something by:

1. AHow closely it resembles a typical example
2. BHow easily examples come to mind
3. CHow much time or money you have already invested in it
4. DThe first number you were given

Declarative memory, which can be consciously recalled and put into words, is also called:

1. AImplicit memory
2. BSensory memory
3. CMotor memory
4. DExplicit memory

The smallest unit of language that carries meaning is a:

1. AMorpheme
2. BPhrase
3. CPhoneme
4. DLexicon

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

1. AIs the same whatever the angle of rotation is
2. BDecreases as the angle between them gets larger
3. CDepends mainly on how complex the shapes are
4. DIncreases with the angle between the two shapes

Inattentional blindness is shown by the study in which participants failed to notice:

1. AA tone played in one ear
2. BA change in the colour of a single letter
3. CA person in a gorilla suit walking through a basketball game
4. DA word flashed below the threshold of awareness

A strategy that breaks a problem into subgoals, each reducing the difference between the current state and the goal, is called:

1. AIncubation
2. BInsight
3. CTrial and error
4. DMeans–end analysis

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. AInattentional blindness
2. BBlindsight
3. CProsopagnosia
4. DChange blindness

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. CGrammar plays no role in understanding
4. DPeople build an interpretation word by word and must revise it when it fails