Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Repeating a phone number over and over to keep it in mind is called:

1. AConsolidation
2. BChunking
3. CMaintenance rehearsal
4. DElaborative rehearsal

The smallest unit of language that carries meaning is a:

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

Trying to perform two tasks at the same time, such as texting while listening to a lecture, involves:

1. ADivided attention
2. BSustained attention
3. CSelective attention
4. DIconic memory

Counting the windows in your house by picturing walking around it mainly uses which working memory component?

1. AThe episodic buffer
2. BThe phonological loop
3. CThe visuospatial sketchpad
4. DLong-term procedural memory

The idea that the language you speak influences how you think and perceive the world is known as:

1. AUniversal grammar
2. BLinguistic relativity
3. CSemantic priming
4. DPhonemic restoration

Anchoring bias occurs when:

1. APeople remember only the end of an experience
2. BAn initial number strongly influences a later estimate
3. CPeople prefer options presented as gains
4. DPeople believe after the event that they knew the outcome all along

Patient D.F. could not report the orientation of a slot but could accurately post a card through it. Milner and Goodale used this to support the idea of:

1. AEarly selection of attention before perception
2. BSeparate visual streams for perception and action
3. CA single visual system used for every visual task
4. DFeature binding through focused spatial attention

The Stroop effect shows that:

1. AColour perception depends only on the eyes
2. BReading words is so automatic that it interferes with naming the ink colour
3. CPeople can name colours faster than they can read words
4. DAttention can be divided without any cost