Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

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1.Easy

What is a heuristic?

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

Köhler's chimpanzees, who suddenly stacked boxes to reach bananas, are a classic example of:

  1. AInsight
  2. BMental set
  3. CTrial-and-error learning
  4. DFunctional fixedness
3.Easy

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

  1. AConsolidation
  2. BMaintenance rehearsal
  3. CChunking
  4. DElaborative rehearsal
4.Medium

Broadbent's filter model of attention proposes that unattended messages are:

  1. AProcessed at the same level as the attended message
  2. BWeakened but still analysed for important meanings, such as names
  3. CFully analysed for meaning and then quickly forgotten
  4. DBlocked by physical features before meaning is analysed
5.Medium

Repeating "the, the, the" aloud while learning a word list impairs recall because it:

  1. APrevents the eyes from reading the words
  2. BBlocks rehearsal in the phonological loop
  3. COverloads the visuospatial sketchpad
  4. DErases information already in long-term memory
6.Medium

Counting the windows in your house by picturing walking around it mainly uses which working memory component?

  1. ALong-term procedural memory
  2. BThe phonological loop
  3. CThe episodic buffer
  4. DThe visuospatial sketchpad
7.Hard

Evidence that short-term and long-term memory are separate stores comes from patients who:

  1. ARemember everything equally well
  2. BLose all memories after a mild headache
  3. CHave impaired long-term learning but normal digit span, and others with the opposite pattern
  4. DShow the same recall for all list positions
8.Hard

Moray found that people often noticed their own name in the unattended ear during shadowing. Why was this a problem for Broadbent's filter model?

  1. AIt proves that both ears are always attended to equally
  2. BIt shows that people cannot shadow at all
  3. CIt shows names are stored in iconic memory
  4. DIt shows some unattended input is analysed for meaning

Answer key

  1. 1. A · A mental shortcut used to make judgements quickly
  2. 2. A · Insight
  3. 3. B · Maintenance rehearsal
  4. 4. D · Blocked by physical features before meaning is analysed
  5. 5. B · Blocks rehearsal in the phonological loop
  6. 6. D · The visuospatial sketchpad
  7. 7. C · Have impaired long-term learning but normal digit span, and others with the opposite pattern
  8. 8. D · It shows some unattended input is analysed for meaning

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