Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Believing that after five tails in a row a fair coin is "due" to land heads is the:

1. AHindsight bias
2. BGambler's fallacy
3. CSunk cost fallacy
4. DEndowment effect

Selective attention is best illustrated by:

1. AFollowing one conversation at a noisy party
2. BRecognising a face you have seen before
3. CRemembering a phone number for a few seconds
4. DSolving an arithmetic problem

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

1. ARepression
2. BRetroactive interference
3. CProactive interference
4. DDecay

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. APreserve spatial relationships of the real scene
2. BAre processed in the phonological loop
3. CCannot be inspected once formed
4. DAre stored only as abstract verbal descriptions of the scene

In Cherry's dichotic listening studies, participants shadowing one ear usually noticed which change in the unattended ear?

1. AA switch from English to German in the same voice
2. BA switch from a male to a female voice
3. CWords repeated several times
4. DThe meaning of the words

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. CFalse memories produced by related associations
4. DThe word length effect in verbal memory

In prospect theory, losses typically feel:

1. AExactly as strong as gains of the same size, on average
2. BAbout twice as strong as gains of the same size
3. CWeaker than gains of the same size
4. DStrong only when they are certain

A patient can recognise a car, a cup and a dog but cannot recognise the faces of close family members, identifying them by voice instead. This is:

1. AWernicke's aphasia
2. BSpatial neglect
3. CProsopagnosia
4. DBlindsight