Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Who first measured the "forgetting curve" using nonsense syllables?

1. AFrederic Bartlett
2. BHermann Ebbinghaus
3. CEndel Tulving
4. DUlric Neisser

Which memory store holds visual information for a fraction of a second?

1. ALong-term memory
2. BEchoic memory
3. CIconic memory
4. DWorking memory

Riding a bicycle without thinking about it relies mainly on:

1. AEpisodic memory
2. BSemantic memory
3. CProcedural memory
4. DIconic memory

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

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

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. CThe wording of a question can change eyewitness memory
4. DStress improves the accuracy of recall

According to the levels-of-processing approach, which task leads to the best recall of words?

1. ADeciding whether each word is in capital letters
2. BDeciding whether each word fits into a sentence
3. CCounting the letters in each word
4. DDeciding whether each word rhymes with "cat"

Clive Wearing developed severe amnesia after a brain infection and cannot remember events from moment to moment, yet he can still play the piano and conduct music. This shows that:

1. AMusical skills are stored in short-term memory
2. BEpisodic memory is needed to perform any skill
3. CAll long-term memory depends on a single system
4. DProcedural memory can survive severe loss of episodic memory

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