Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

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1.Easy

Damage to Wernicke's area typically causes:

  1. ASlow, effortful speech with good comprehension
  2. BLoss of the ability to recognise familiar faces
  3. CLoss of the ability to read but not to write
  4. DFluent but largely meaningless speech with poor comprehension
2.Easy

Damage to Broca's area typically causes difficulty with:

  1. ARecognising faces
  2. BProducing fluent speech
  3. CForming new memories
  4. DUnderstanding spoken words
3.Easy

Knowing the usual order of events when eating at a restaurant (being seated, ordering, eating, paying) is called a:

  1. AScript
  2. BPhoneme
  3. CHeuristic
  4. DPrototype
4.Medium

After studying the words "bed, rest, tired, dream, snooze", many people falsely recall "sleep". This paradigm demonstrates:

  1. AThe word length effect in verbal memory
  2. BNear-perfect recall of meaningful, related word lists
  3. CFalse memories produced by related associations
  4. DRapid decay of items in iconic memory
5.Medium

Students given a coffee mug ask for a much higher price to sell it than other students will pay to buy it. This is the:

  1. AGambler's fallacy
  2. BSunk cost fallacy
  3. CEndowment effect
  4. DAnchoring effect
6.Medium

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

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

In Luchins' water jar problems, after solving several problems with the formula B − A − 2C, many participants kept using it even when a simpler solution (A − C) worked. This shows:

  1. AA mental set (Einstellung) that hides simpler solutions
  2. BSudden insight into the structure of the problem
  3. CProactive interference in short-term memory
  4. DFunctional fixedness about what the jars can be used for
8.Hard

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. ARepresentativeness: K-words look like typical English words
  2. BFraming: the question describes the words as a loss
  3. CAnchoring: the letter K is the first value people are given
  4. DAvailability: words are easier to retrieve by first letter

Answer key

  1. 1. D · Fluent but largely meaningless speech with poor comprehension
  2. 2. B · Producing fluent speech
  3. 3. A · Script
  4. 4. C · False memories produced by related associations
  5. 5. C · Endowment effect
  6. 6. A · A switch from a male to a female voice
  7. 7. A · A mental set (Einstellung) that hides simpler solutions
  8. 8. D · Availability: words are easier to retrieve by first letter

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