Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

The feeling after an event that "I knew it all along" is called:

1. AHindsight bias
2. BOverconfidence
3. CAnchoring
4. DConfirmation bias

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

1. AfMRI
2. BCT
3. CEEG
4. DPET

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

1. AInternal mental processes such as memory and thinking
2. BOnly observable behaviour and reinforcement
3. CUnconscious sexual and aggressive drives
4. DIntrospection about raw sensations only

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

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

The serial position effect predicts that items in a list are recalled best when they are:

1. AOnly at the beginning of the list
2. BIn the middle of the list
3. CRandomly placed, whatever the length of the list
4. DAt the beginning and end of the list

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

1. AThe visuospatial sketchpad
2. BLong-term procedural memory
3. CThe phonological loop
4. DThe episodic buffer

In Posner's cueing task, responses are faster after a valid cue and slower after an invalid cue, even when the eyes do not move. This shows that:

1. AAttention can shift to a location without moving the eyes
2. BPeripheral vision cannot detect targets without eye movement
3. CAttention always follows the direction of gaze
4. DCues have no real effect on how fast targets are processed

In prospect theory, losses typically feel:

1. AStrong only when they are certain
2. BWeaker than gains of the same size
3. CAbout twice as strong as gains of the same size
4. DExactly as strong as gains of the same size, on average