Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

About how many items can a person hold in short-term memory, according to George Miller's classic estimate?

1. A20 ± 5
2. B12 ± 3
3. C3 ± 1
4. D7 ± 2

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

1. ASensory memory
2. BImplicit memory
3. CMotor memory
4. DExplicit memory

Which part of the retina gives the sharpest, most detailed vision?

1. AThe optic chiasm
2. BThe periphery
3. CThe blind spot
4. DThe fovea

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. BWords repeated several times
3. CThe meaning of the words
4. DA switch from a male to a female voice

Encoding specificity means that recall is best when:

1. ALearning happens just before sleep only
2. BThe material is learned in a noisy room
3. CInformation is learned in one long session
4. DThe context at retrieval matches the context at learning

Anchoring bias occurs when:

1. APeople believe after the event that they knew the outcome all along
2. BPeople remember only the end of an experience
3. CAn initial number strongly influences a later estimate
4. DPeople prefer options presented as gains

The Stroop effect shows that:

1. AColour perception depends only on the eyes
2. BPeople can name colours faster than they can read words
3. CReading words is so automatic that it interferes with naming the ink colour
4. DAttention can be divided without any cost

In a city, 85% of cabs are green and 15% are blue. A witness who is correct 80% of the time says the cab in an accident was blue. What is the probability it really was blue?

1. AAbout 80%
2. BAbout 41%
3. CAbout 68%
4. DAbout 15%