Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

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1.Easy

Knowing the usual order of events when eating at a restaurant (being seated, ordering, eating, paying) is called a:

  1. AHeuristic
  2. BScript
  3. CPrototype
  4. DPhoneme
2.Easy

Trying to perform two tasks at the same time, such as texting while listening to a lecture, involves:

  1. AIconic memory
  2. BSustained attention
  3. CSelective attention
  4. DDivided attention
3.Easy

Which researchers proposed the multi-store model of memory?

  1. ACraik and Lockhart
  2. BAtkinson and Shiffrin
  3. CLoftus and Palmer
  4. DBaddeley and Hitch
4.Medium

People recall more words from a list of short words (e.g. "cat, sun") than from a list of long words. The usual explanation is that:

  1. AShort words take less time to rehearse in the phonological loop
  2. BLong words are processed more deeply and so crowd each other out
  3. CLong words cause retroactive interference with earlier items
  4. DShort words are held in iconic memory as well as acoustically
5.Medium

According to the levels-of-processing approach, which task leads to the best recall of words?

  1. ADeciding whether each word rhymes with "cat"
  2. BDeciding whether each word fits into a sentence
  3. CDeciding whether each word is in capital letters
  4. DCounting the letters in each word
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

Participants practise retrieving some items from a studied category (e.g. "fruit – orange"). Later, unpractised items from the same category (e.g. "fruit – banana") are recalled worse than items from unpractised categories. This is:

  1. ARetrieval-induced forgetting
  2. BThe testing effect
  3. CRetroactive interference from a new list
  4. DDecay over time
8.Hard

After a stroke in the right parietal lobe, a patient eats only from the right side of the plate and draws only the right half of a clock. This is:

  1. AAnterograde amnesia
  2. BProsopagnosia
  3. CUnilateral spatial neglect
  4. DLeft visual field blindsight

Answer key

  1. 1. B · Script
  2. 2. D · Divided attention
  3. 3. B · Atkinson and Shiffrin
  4. 4. A · Short words take less time to rehearse in the phonological loop
  5. 5. B · Deciding whether each word fits into a sentence
  6. 6. D · The visuospatial sketchpad
  7. 7. A · Retrieval-induced forgetting
  8. 8. C · Unilateral spatial neglect

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