Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

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

1. ADivergent thinking
2. BDeductive reasoning
3. CConvergent thinking
4. DFunctional fixedness

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

1. ASemantic memory
2. BProcedural memory
3. CEpisodic memory
4. DIconic memory

Riding a bicycle without thinking about it relies mainly on:

1. AIconic memory
2. BSemantic memory
3. CEpisodic memory
4. DProcedural memory

Which working memory component is most heavily used when you switch between two tasks and decide what to focus on?

1. AIconic memory
2. BThe central executive
3. CThe visuospatial sketchpad
4. DThe phonological loop

Counting the windows in your house by picturing walking around it mainly uses which working memory component?

1. AThe phonological loop
2. BLong-term procedural memory
3. CThe visuospatial sketchpad
4. DThe episodic buffer

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 testing effect
2. BEncoding specificity
3. CThe spacing effect
4. DProactive interference

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

Clive Wearing developed severe amnesia after a brain infection and cannot remember events from moment to moment, yet he can still play the piano and conduct music. This shows that:

1. AProcedural memory can survive severe loss of episodic memory
2. BMusical skills are stored in short-term memory
3. CAll long-term memory depends on a single system
4. DEpisodic memory is needed to perform any skill