Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Damage to Broca's area typically causes difficulty with:

1. AProducing fluent speech
2. BRecognising faces
3. CForming new memories
4. DUnderstanding spoken words

Believing that after five tails in a row a fair coin is "due" to land heads is the:

1. ASunk cost fallacy
2. BEndowment effect
3. CHindsight bias
4. DGambler's fallacy

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

1. AMental set
2. BInsight
3. CFunctional fixedness
4. DTrial-and-error learning

The cognitive interview is used by police to improve eyewitness recall. Which technique does it include?

1. AShowing the witness photos of a single suspect
2. BAsking leading questions to speed things up
3. CAsking only yes-or-no questions
4. DMentally reinstating the context of the event

"All mammals breathe air. Whales are mammals. Therefore whales breathe air." This is an example of:

1. ADeductive reasoning
2. BAnalogical reasoning
3. CInductive reasoning
4. DThe availability heuristic

In Shepard and Metzler's mental rotation task, the time to decide whether two 3D shapes are the same:

1. AIs the same whatever the angle of rotation is
2. BDepends mainly on how complex the shapes are
3. CIncreases with the angle between the two shapes
4. DDecreases as the angle between them gets larger

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. BFraming: the question describes the words as a loss
3. CAvailability: words are easier to retrieve by first letter
4. DRepresentativeness: K-words look like typical English words

A patient with a long history of heavy alcohol use cannot form new memories and fills gaps with invented stories that he believes. This is typical of:

1. AWernicke's aphasia
2. BDissociative amnesia
3. CRetrograde amnesia only
4. DKorsakoff's syndrome