Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

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

1. AMaintenance rehearsal
2. BDecay
3. CRote repetition
4. DElaborative rehearsal

Generating many different possible uses for a brick is an example of:

1. ADeductive reasoning
2. BFunctional fixedness
3. CConvergent thinking
4. DDivergent thinking

What is a heuristic?

1. AA type of long-term memory
2. BA disorder of perception
3. CA mental shortcut used to make judgements quickly
4. DA step-by-step procedure that always finds the right answer

Two groups study a text. One rereads it; the other takes practice quizzes on it. A week later, the quiz group remembers more. This shows:

1. AThe spacing effect
2. BThe testing effect
3. CProactive interference
4. DEncoding specificity

A student who studied while drinking coffee recalls more when tested after drinking coffee. This illustrates:

1. AThe spacing effect
2. BFlashbulb memory
3. CState-dependent memory
4. DThe serial position effect

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

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

Warren replaced one speech sound in a sentence with a cough. Listeners reported hearing the sentence intact and could not locate the cough correctly. This is evidence for:

1. APurely bottom-up speech perception
2. BDamage to Broca's area
3. CEchoic memory lasting for several minutes
4. DTop-down influences in speech perception

When a video shows a face saying "ga" while the audio says "ba", many people hear "da". This shows that:

1. ASpeech perception combines what we see and hear
2. BPeople cannot tell similar speech sounds apart
3. CHearing always overrides vision when they conflict
4. DVision is ignored when we listen to speech