Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Repeating a phone number over and over to keep it in mind is called:

1. AConsolidation
2. BElaborative rehearsal
3. CChunking
4. DMaintenance rehearsal

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

1. AMaintenance rehearsal
2. BElaborative rehearsal
3. CRote repetition
4. DDecay

The feeling after an event that "I knew it all along" is called:

1. AAnchoring
2. BHindsight bias
3. COverconfidence
4. DConfirmation bias

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

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

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

1. AState-dependent memory
2. BThe spacing effect
3. CFlashbulb memory
4. DThe serial position effect

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. AProactive interference
2. BThe spacing effect
3. CThe testing effect
4. DEncoding specificity

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. AEpisodic memory is needed to perform any skill
2. BProcedural memory can survive severe loss of episodic memory
3. CMusical skills are stored in short-term memory
4. DAll long-term memory depends on a single system

H.M. practised mirror drawing over several days. His performance improved steadily, yet each day he said he had never done the task before. What does this show?

1. AMirror drawing depends mainly on the hippocampus
2. BHis improvement came from rehearsal in short-term memory
3. CH.M. was only pretending not to remember the sessions
4. DSkills can be learned without remembering the practice