Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

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

1. AConfirmation bias
2. BOverconfidence
3. CHindsight bias
4. DAnchoring

A multiple-choice exam mainly tests which kind of retrieval?

1. ARecognition
2. BRelearning
3. CFree recall
4. DSerial recall

The smallest unit of language that carries meaning is a:

1. AMorpheme
2. BPhoneme
3. CLexicon
4. DPhrase

Students given a coffee mug ask for a much higher price to sell it than other students will pay to buy it. This is the:

1. AEndowment effect
2. BGambler's fallacy
3. CSunk cost fallacy
4. DAnchoring effect

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

1. AFlashbulb memory
2. BThe serial position effect
3. CThe spacing effect
4. DState-dependent memory

Loftus and Palmer's car crash study showed that:

1. AEyewitnesses are always accurate about speed
2. BStress improves the accuracy of recall
3. CThe wording of a question can change eyewitness memory
4. DMemory for faces is more reliable than memory for events

In Posner's cueing task, responses are faster after a valid cue and slower after an invalid cue, even when the eyes do not move. This shows that:

1. APeripheral vision cannot detect targets without eye movement
2. BCues have no real effect on how fast targets are processed
3. CAttention can shift to a location without moving the eyes
4. DAttention always follows the direction of gaze

A participant solves anagrams faster after seeing related words briefly, without being aware of them. This is an example of:

1. APriming
2. BChunking
3. CRehearsal
4. DInterference