Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

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

1. AIntrospection about raw sensations only
2. BUnconscious sexual and aggressive drives
3. COnly observable behaviour and reinforcement
4. DInternal mental processes such as memory and thinking

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

1. AEpisodic memory
2. BSemantic memory
3. CProcedural memory
4. DSensory memory

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

1. ADeductive reasoning
2. BConvergent thinking
3. CDivergent thinking
4. DFunctional fixedness

Rubin's vase, which can be seen as a vase or as two faces, illustrates:

1. AThe law of closure
2. BFigure–ground organisation
3. CSize constancy
4. DRetinal disparity

In dual-process theory, which task most clearly requires System 2 thinking?

1. ARecognising a friend's face
2. BNoticing that a sound is loud
3. CReading a large familiar word on a road sign
4. DWorking out 17 × 24 in your head

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

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

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

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. BAnchoring
3. CMaximising
4. DSatisficing