Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

About how many items can a person hold in short-term memory, according to George Miller's classic estimate?

1. A12 ± 3
2. B7 ± 2
3. C20 ± 5
4. D3 ± 1

The "cognitive revolution" of the 1950s and 1960s shifted psychology's focus towards:

1. AUnconscious sexual and aggressive drives
2. BInternal mental processes such as memory and thinking
3. COnly observable behaviour and reinforcement
4. DIntrospection about raw sensations only

The tendency to search for information that supports what we already believe is called:

1. AHindsight bias
2. BFundamental attribution error
3. CConfirmation bias
4. DAnchoring

In Cherry's dichotic listening studies, participants shadowing one ear usually noticed which change in the unattended ear?

1. AA switch from a male to a female voice
2. BWords repeated several times
3. CThe meaning of the words
4. DA switch from English to German in the same voice

Loftus and Palmer's car crash study showed that:

1. AMemory for faces is more reliable than memory for events
2. BEyewitnesses are always accurate about speed
3. CStress improves the accuracy of recall
4. DThe wording of a question can change eyewitness memory

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

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

The "tip-of-the-tongue" state is evidence that:

1. ALanguage is stored only in short-term memory
2. BThe information was never encoded
3. CInformation can be stored but temporarily not retrievable
4. DMemories decay within seconds

In Treisman's feature integration theory, why is finding a red X among red Os and blue Xs slow?

1. ASingle features cannot be detected without attention
2. BCombining features (a conjunction) requires focused attention to each item
3. CRed is processed more slowly than blue
4. DLetters cannot be searched visually