Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Remembering what you did at your tenth birthday party relies mainly on:

1. AEpisodic memory
2. BIconic memory
3. CProcedural memory
4. DSemantic memory

Damage to Broca's area typically causes difficulty with:

1. AForming new memories
2. BUnderstanding spoken words
3. CProducing fluent speech
4. DRecognising faces

The Gestalt principle of proximity states that we tend to group together elements that are:

1. ASimilar in colour
2. BClose to each other
3. CForming a closed shape
4. DMoving in the same direction

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

People often accept an invalid syllogism if its conclusion sounds true, such as "Some vitamins are healthy". This is called:

1. ABelief bias
2. BHindsight bias
3. CAnchoring
4. DSelf-serving bias

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

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

In the Wason selection task, cards show E, K, 4 and 7. The rule is "If a card has a vowel on one side, it has an even number on the other". Which cards must be turned to test the rule?

1. AE only
2. BE and 4
3. CE, 4 and 7
4. DE and 7

A participant solves anagrams faster after seeing related words briefly, without being aware of them. This is an example of:

1. AChunking
2. BInterference
3. CRehearsal
4. DPriming