Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

What is "chunking"?

1. ASplitting attention between two tasks
2. BRepeating information aloud to remember it
3. CForgetting information in large blocks
4. DGrouping information into meaningful units to remember more

Riding a bicycle without thinking about it relies mainly on:

1. AEpisodic memory
2. BProcedural memory
3. CIconic memory
4. DSemantic memory

The "cognitive revolution" of the 1950s and 1960s shifted psychology's focus towards:

1. AInternal mental processes such as memory and thinking
2. BOnly observable behaviour and reinforcement
3. CIntrospection about raw sensations only
4. DUnconscious sexual and aggressive drives

In a lexical decision task, people recognise "nurse" as a word faster after seeing "doctor" than after seeing "bread". This is best explained by:

1. AThe phonological similarity effect
2. BSpreading activation in a semantic network
3. CIconic memory decay
4. DRetroactive interference

The idea that the language you speak influences how you think and perceive the world is known as:

1. APhonemic restoration
2. BUniversal grammar
3. CLinguistic relativity
4. DSemantic priming

Loftus and Palmer's car crash study showed that:

1. AMemory for faces is more reliable than memory for events
2. BStress improves the accuracy of recall
3. CThe wording of a question can change eyewitness memory
4. DEyewitnesses are always accurate about speed

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. BMemory depends on the match between encoding and test, not only on depth
3. CRhyming words are stored in iconic memory
4. DMeaning cannot be processed during learning

Countries where people are organ donors unless they opt out have far higher donor rates than countries where people must opt in. This is best explained by:

1. AThe sunk cost fallacy
2. BBelief bias in moral reasoning about donation
3. CThe availability heuristic
4. DThe default effect and status quo bias