Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Which type of memory stores facts such as "Paris is the capital of France"?

1. ASemantic memory
2. BEpisodic memory
3. CSensory memory
4. DProcedural memory

Linking new information to things you already know, so it becomes meaningful, is called:

1. AElaborative rehearsal
2. BDecay
3. CMaintenance rehearsal
4. DRote repetition

A multiple-choice exam mainly tests which kind of retrieval?

1. ARelearning
2. BFree recall
3. CRecognition
4. DSerial recall

A patient can no longer form new long-term memories after brain surgery but remembers events from before the operation. This is called:

1. AInfantile amnesia
2. BRetrograde amnesia
3. CAnterograde amnesia
4. DDissociative amnesia

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

1. AInsight
2. BMeans–end analysis
3. CTrial and error
4. DIncubation

Encoding specificity means that recall is best when:

1. AThe material is learned in a noisy room
2. BInformation is learned in one long session
3. CThe context at retrieval matches the context at learning
4. DLearning happens just before sleep only

According to Lavie's load theory of attention, an irrelevant distractor is most likely to be processed when:

1. AThe main task has low perceptual load
2. BThe participant is told to ignore it
3. CThe main task has high perceptual load
4. DThe distractor is presented to the blind spot

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. BFraming: the question describes the words as a loss
3. CAnchoring: the letter K is the first value people are given
4. DRepresentativeness: K-words look like typical English words