Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Köhler's chimpanzees, who suddenly stacked boxes to reach bananas, are a classic example of:

1. AInsight
2. BMental set
3. CTrial-and-error learning
4. DFunctional fixedness

Functional fixedness is the tendency to:

1. ARemember objects better than words
2. BSee an object only in terms of its usual use
3. CForget the purpose of an object after a delay
4. DSolve every problem with the same algorithm

Riding a bicycle without thinking about it relies mainly on:

1. AProcedural memory
2. BSemantic memory
3. CEpisodic memory
4. DIconic memory

Broadbent's filter model of attention proposes that unattended messages are:

1. AFully analysed for meaning and then quickly forgotten
2. BWeakened but still analysed for important meanings, such as names
3. CProcessed at the same level as the attended message
4. DBlocked by physical features before meaning is analysed

Which feature is typical of an automatic process, such as reading a familiar word?

1. AIt is fast and hard to stop once started
2. BIt needs a lot of conscious effort
3. CIt is easily disrupted by a second task
4. DIt can only be done slowly, one step at a time

The availability heuristic means people judge how likely an event is by:

1. AThe first number they hear
2. BHow easily examples come to mind
3. CIts actual statistical frequency
4. DHow similar it is to a typical case

Change blindness experiments show that people often:

1. ANotice every small change in their visual field
2. BFail to notice large changes in a scene when the change happens during a brief interruption
3. CSee changes only in colour, not in shape
4. DAre better at spotting changes in faces than in objects in all cases

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. AFraming: the question describes the words as a loss
2. BAnchoring: the letter K is the first value people are given
3. CRepresentativeness: K-words look like typical English words
4. DAvailability: words are easier to retrieve by first letter