Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Riding a bicycle without thinking about it relies mainly on:

1. AEpisodic memory
2. BIconic memory
3. CSemantic memory
4. DProcedural memory

Knowing that you understand a topic well enough to stop studying is an example of:

1. AHabituation
2. BProactive interference
3. CPriming
4. DMetacognition

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

1. AEpisodic memory
2. BProcedural memory
3. CSemantic memory
4. DIconic memory

In dual-process theory, which task most clearly requires System 2 thinking?

1. AWorking out 17 × 24 in your head
2. BReading a large familiar word on a road sign
3. CRecognising a friend's face
4. DNoticing that a sound is loud

In Baddeley and Hitch's working memory model, which component handles verbal and acoustic information?

1. AThe phonological loop
2. BThe central executive
3. CThe visuospatial sketchpad
4. DThe episodic buffer

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

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

Moray found that people often noticed their own name in the unattended ear during shadowing. Why was this a problem for Broadbent's filter model?

1. AIt shows that people cannot shadow at all
2. BIt shows some unattended input is analysed for meaning
3. CIt shows names are stored in iconic memory
4. DIt proves that both ears are always attended to equally

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