Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

In cognitive psychology, a schema is:

1. AA sudden loss of memory after brain injury
2. BAn organised framework of knowledge about something
3. CA single item held in short-term memory
4. DA visual illusion caused by misleading depth cues in a scene

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

1. AImplicit memory
2. BMotor memory
3. CSensory memory
4. DExplicit memory

Forgetting because new information interferes with remembering old information is called:

1. AProactive interference
2. BRetroactive interference
3. CRepression
4. DDecay

In Shepard and Metzler's mental rotation task, the time to decide whether two 3D shapes are the same:

1. ADecreases as the angle between them gets larger
2. BIs the same whatever the angle of rotation is
3. CIncreases with the angle between the two shapes
4. DDepends mainly on how complex the shapes are

Kosslyn found that the time to mentally scan between two landmarks on an imagined map increased with their distance. This suggests that mental images:

1. ACannot be inspected once formed
2. BPreserve spatial relationships of the real scene
3. CAre processed in the phonological loop
4. DAre stored only as abstract verbal descriptions of the scene

After studying the words "bed, rest, tired, dream, snooze", many people falsely recall "sleep". This paradigm demonstrates:

1. ANear-perfect recall of meaningful, related word lists
2. BRapid decay of items in iconic memory
3. CThe word length effect in verbal memory
4. DFalse memories produced by related associations

A patient with damage to primary visual cortex says he sees nothing in part of his visual field, yet points to objects there well above chance. This is called:

1. AInattentional blindness
2. BBlindsight
3. CChange blindness
4. DProsopagnosia

People judge that more English words begin with K than have K as the third letter, although the reverse is true. Which heuristic explains this?

1. AAvailability: words are easier to retrieve by first letter
2. BRepresentativeness: K-words look like typical English words
3. CAnchoring: the letter K is the first value people are given
4. DFraming: the question describes the words as a loss