Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Believing that after five tails in a row a fair coin is "due" to land heads is the:

1. ASunk cost fallacy
2. BHindsight bias
3. CGambler's fallacy
4. DEndowment effect

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 multiple-choice exam mainly tests which kind of retrieval?

1. ASerial recall
2. BRecognition
3. CRelearning
4. DFree recall

The cognitive interview is used by police to improve eyewitness recall. Which technique does it include?

1. AAsking only yes-or-no questions
2. BMentally reinstating the context of the event
3. CAsking leading questions to speed things up
4. DShowing the witness photos of a single suspect

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

1. ADeductive reasoning
2. BInductive reasoning
3. CAnalogical reasoning
4. DThe availability heuristic

In dual-process theory, which task most clearly requires System 2 thinking?

1. ANoticing that a sound is loud
2. BReading a large familiar word on a road sign
3. CWorking out 17 × 24 in your head
4. DRecognising a friend's face

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. BAnchoring: the letter K is the first value people are given
3. CFraming: the question describes the words as a loss
4. DAvailability: words are easier to retrieve by first letter

A patient can recognise a car, a cup and a dog but cannot recognise the faces of close family members, identifying them by voice instead. This is:

1. ASpatial neglect
2. BWernicke's aphasia
3. CProsopagnosia
4. DBlindsight