Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

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

1. AEchoic memory
2. BIconic memory
3. CWorking memory
4. DLong-term memory

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

1. ASelective attention
2. BSustained attention
3. CIconic memory
4. DDivided attention

Which of these is a binocular depth cue?

1. ARetinal disparity
2. BInterposition
3. CTexture gradient
4. DLinear perspective

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

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

Rubin's vase, which can be seen as a vase or as two faces, illustrates:

1. AThe law of closure
2. BFigure–ground organisation
3. CSize constancy
4. DRetinal disparity

Loftus and Palmer's car crash study showed that:

1. AThe wording of a question can change eyewitness memory
2. BMemory for faces is more reliable than memory for events
3. CEyewitnesses are always accurate about speed
4. DStress improves the accuracy of recall

People judge that more English words begin with K than have K as the third letter, although the reverse is true. Which heuristic explains this?

1. AAvailability: words are easier to retrieve by first letter
2. BAnchoring: the letter K is the first value people are given
3. CRepresentativeness: K-words look like typical English words
4. DFraming: the question describes the words as a loss

Glanzer and Cunitz had participants count for 30 seconds between hearing a list and recalling it. Which result did they find?

1. AThe primacy effect disappeared, but the recency effect remained
2. BThe recency effect disappeared, but the primacy effect remained
3. CBoth effects became larger
4. DRecall became equal at all positions except the middle