Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

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1.Easy

In cognitive psychology, a schema is:

  1. AAn organised framework of knowledge about something
  2. BA visual illusion caused by misleading depth cues in a scene
  3. CA sudden loss of memory after brain injury
  4. DA single item held in short-term memory
2.Easy

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

  1. AFunctional fixedness
  2. BConvergent thinking
  3. CDivergent thinking
  4. DDeductive reasoning
3.Easy

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

  1. ASemantic memory
  2. BEpisodic memory
  3. CIconic memory
  4. DProcedural memory
4.Medium

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 episodic buffer
  4. DThe visuospatial sketchpad
5.Medium

Lists of similar-sounding letters (B, G, V, T) are harder to recall immediately than dissimilar letters (F, K, Y, W). This suggests short-term memory:

  1. AMainly codes information by meaning
  2. BHas unlimited capacity for letters
  3. CMainly codes verbal information acoustically
  4. DStores letters mainly as visual images of their shapes
6.Medium

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 testing effect
  3. CEncoding specificity
  4. DThe spacing effect
7.Hard

Gick and Holyoak gave participants a story about an army attacking a fortress from many sides, then Duncker's radiation problem. What did they find?

  1. ANobody could solve the radiation problem, even with a hint
  2. BThe story made the radiation problem harder to solve
  3. CAlmost everyone used the analogy without needing any hint
  4. DFew used the analogy until told the story might help
8.Hard

A patient with damage to primary visual cortex says he sees nothing in part of his visual field, yet points to objects there well above chance. This is called:

  1. AChange blindness
  2. BBlindsight
  3. CInattentional blindness
  4. DProsopagnosia

Answer key

  1. 1. A · An organised framework of knowledge about something
  2. 2. C · Divergent thinking
  3. 3. B · Episodic memory
  4. 4. D · The visuospatial sketchpad
  5. 5. C · Mainly codes verbal information acoustically
  6. 6. B · The testing effect
  7. 7. D · Few used the analogy until told the story might help
  8. 8. B · Blindsight

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