Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

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1.Easy

The representativeness heuristic means judging the probability of something by:

  1. AHow easily examples come to mind
  2. BHow closely it resembles a typical example
  3. CThe first number you were given
  4. DHow much time or money you have already invested in it
2.Easy

The smallest unit of sound in a language that can change the meaning of a word is a:

  1. APhoneme
  2. BSyllable
  3. CGrapheme
  4. DMorpheme
3.Easy

The Gestalt principle of proximity states that we tend to group together elements that are:

  1. AClose to each other
  2. BForming a closed shape
  3. CSimilar in colour
  4. DMoving in the same direction
4.Medium

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

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

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

  1. ADeductive reasoning
  2. BAnalogical reasoning
  3. CInductive reasoning
  4. DThe availability heuristic
6.Medium

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

  1. AThe law of closure
  2. BSize constancy
  3. CRetinal disparity
  4. DFigure–ground organisation
7.Hard

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

  1. AThe recency effect disappeared, but the primacy effect remained
  2. BRecall became equal at all positions except the middle
  3. CThe primacy effect disappeared, but the recency effect remained
  4. DBoth effects became larger
8.Hard

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. AShallow processing is always better than deep processing
  2. BRhyming words are stored in iconic memory
  3. CMeaning cannot be processed during learning
  4. DMemory depends on the match between encoding and test, not only on depth

Answer key

  1. 1. B · How closely it resembles a typical example
  2. 2. A · Phoneme
  3. 3. A · Close to each other
  4. 4. B · A switch from a male to a female voice
  5. 5. A · Deductive reasoning
  6. 6. D · Figure–ground organisation
  7. 7. A · The recency effect disappeared, but the primacy effect remained
  8. 8. D · Memory depends on the match between encoding and test, not only on depth

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