Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Repeating a phone number over and over to keep it in mind is called:

1. AChunking
2. BConsolidation
3. CMaintenance rehearsal
4. DElaborative rehearsal

What is a heuristic?

1. AA disorder of perception
2. BA mental shortcut used to make judgements quickly
3. CA step-by-step procedure that always finds the right answer
4. DA type of long-term memory

Generating many different possible uses for a brick is an example of:

1. ADeductive reasoning
2. BFunctional fixedness
3. CDivergent thinking
4. DConvergent thinking

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

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

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 testing effect
3. CThe spacing effect
4. DEncoding specificity

Students given a coffee mug ask for a much higher price to sell it than other students will pay to buy it. This is the:

1. AEndowment effect
2. BGambler's fallacy
3. CAnchoring effect
4. DSunk cost fallacy

In Treisman's feature integration theory, why is finding a red X among red Os and blue Xs slow?

1. ACombining features (a conjunction) requires focused attention to each item
2. BRed is processed more slowly than blue
3. CSingle features cannot be detected without attention
4. DLetters cannot be searched visually

Choosing the first flat that meets your minimum requirements, rather than comparing every flat available, is what Herbert Simon called:

1. AMeans–end analysis
2. BSatisficing
3. CAnchoring
4. DMaximising