Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Functional fixedness is the tendency to:

1. ASee an object only in terms of its usual use
2. BRemember objects better than words
3. CForget the purpose of an object after a delay
4. DSolve every problem with the same algorithm

In cognitive psychology, a schema is:

1. AA sudden loss of memory after brain injury
2. BA single item held in short-term memory
3. CAn organised framework of knowledge about something
4. DA visual illusion caused by misleading depth cues in a scene

A vivid, detailed memory of where you were when you heard shocking news is called a:

1. AIconic memory
2. BProcedural memory
3. CFlashbulb memory
4. DScreen memory

Two groups study a text. One rereads it; the other takes practice quizzes on it. A week later, the quiz group remembers more. This shows:

1. AThe spacing effect
2. BEncoding specificity
3. CProactive interference
4. DThe testing effect

Broadbent's filter model of attention proposes that unattended messages are:

1. ABlocked by physical features before meaning is analysed
2. BProcessed at the same level as the attended message
3. CWeakened but still analysed for important meanings, such as names
4. DFully analysed for meaning and then quickly forgotten

"All mammals breathe air. Whales are mammals. Therefore whales breathe air." This is an example of:

1. AInductive reasoning
2. BDeductive reasoning
3. CAnalogical reasoning
4. DThe availability heuristic

Choosing the first flat that meets your minimum requirements, rather than comparing every flat available, is what Herbert Simon called:

1. AMaximising
2. BAnchoring
3. CMeans–end analysis
4. DSatisficing

Moray found that people often noticed their own name in the unattended ear during shadowing. Why was this a problem for Broadbent's filter model?

1. AIt shows that people cannot shadow at all
2. BIt proves that both ears are always attended to equally
3. CIt shows some unattended input is analysed for meaning
4. DIt shows names are stored in iconic memory