Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Riding a bicycle without thinking about it relies mainly on:

1. AEpisodic memory
2. BIconic memory
3. CSemantic memory
4. DProcedural memory

What is "chunking"?

1. ARepeating information aloud to remember it
2. BForgetting information in large blocks
3. CGrouping information into meaningful units to remember more
4. DSplitting attention between two tasks

Damage to Broca's area typically causes difficulty with:

1. ARecognising faces
2. BUnderstanding spoken words
3. CProducing fluent speech
4. DForming new memories

Which statement best describes top-down processing in perception?

1. AOnly the lower parts of the visual field are processed
2. BExpectations and knowledge shape how we interpret sensory input
3. CPerception happens without any involvement of memory
4. DPerception is built only from the raw features of the incoming stimulus

In the Brown–Peterson task, participants count backwards by threes after seeing a trigram such as "KTR". The main finding was that:

1. ACounting backwards made the trigrams easier to remember
2. BOnly the first letter of each trigram tended to be forgotten
3. CRecall stayed almost perfect even after 18 seconds of counting
4. DRecall fell sharply within about 18 seconds without rehearsal

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

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

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

Morris, Bransford and Franks found that words processed for rhyme were better recognised in a rhyming test than words processed for meaning. This challenges levels of processing because:

1. AMemory depends on the match between encoding and test, not only on depth
2. BShallow processing is always better than deep processing
3. CRhyming words are stored in iconic memory
4. DMeaning cannot be processed during learning