Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

In categorisation research, a prototype is:

1. AA strict list of features every member must have
2. BA rare and unusual member of a category
3. CThe most typical member or average example of a category
4. DThe first example of a category that a child learns in early life

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

1. ASensory memory
2. BMotor memory
3. CImplicit memory
4. DExplicit memory

Which method records the brain's electrical activity through electrodes on the scalp and has excellent temporal resolution?

1. ACT
2. BPET
3. CfMRI
4. DEEG

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

1. AInsight
2. BIncubation
3. CTrial and error
4. DMeans–end analysis

Which of these is an ill-defined problem?

1. ADesigning a pleasant garden
2. BCompleting a Tower of Hanoi puzzle
3. CSolving an anagram
4. DFinding the sum of two numbers

"All mammals breathe air. Whales are mammals. Therefore whales breathe air." This is an example of:

1. AInductive reasoning
2. BDeductive reasoning
3. CThe availability heuristic
4. DAnalogical reasoning

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. AWernicke's aphasia
2. BDissociative amnesia
3. CRetrograde amnesia only
4. DKorsakoff's syndrome

The "tip-of-the-tongue" state is evidence that:

1. AInformation can be stored but temporarily not retrievable
2. BThe information was never encoded
3. CLanguage is stored only in short-term memory
4. DMemories decay within seconds