Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Who first measured the "forgetting curve" using nonsense syllables?

1. AFrederic Bartlett
2. BEndel Tulving
3. CHermann Ebbinghaus
4. DUlric Neisser

The representativeness heuristic means judging the probability of something by:

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

In cognitive psychology, a schema is:

1. AA single item held in short-term memory
2. BA sudden loss of memory after brain injury
3. CAn organised framework of knowledge about something
4. DA visual illusion caused by misleading depth cues in a scene

In Collins and Quillian's hierarchical network model, why does "A canary is an animal" take longer to verify than "A canary is a bird"?

1. AThe sentence contains more letters to read
2. BCanaries are rated as untypical members of "animal"
3. C"Animal" is a longer and less frequent word than "bird"
4. DMore levels must be travelled to reach "animal"

A patient can no longer form new long-term memories after brain surgery but remembers events from before the operation. This is called:

1. ADissociative amnesia
2. BRetrograde amnesia
3. CAnterograde amnesia
4. DInfantile amnesia

Loftus and Palmer's car crash study showed that:

1. AEyewitnesses are always accurate about speed
2. BThe wording of a question can change eyewitness memory
3. CStress improves the accuracy of recall
4. DMemory for faces is more reliable than memory for events

A patient with a long history of heavy alcohol use cannot form new memories and fills gaps with invented stories that he believes. This is typical of:

1. AKorsakoff's syndrome
2. BRetrograde amnesia only
3. CDissociative amnesia
4. DWernicke's aphasia

In Sperling's experiments, participants saw a 3 × 4 grid of letters briefly. When a tone signalled which row to report immediately afterwards, they could report most letters of that row. What did this show?

1. AIconic memory holds only about four letters, however they are tested
2. BMost of the display is briefly held but fades before it can all be reported
3. CBriefly seen letters are transferred into long-term memory at once
4. DHearing a warning tone improves visual perception of nearby letters in general