Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

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

1. AMorpheme
2. BSyllable
3. CGrapheme
4. DPhoneme

Knowing that you understand a topic well enough to stop studying is an example of:

1. APriming
2. BProactive interference
3. CMetacognition
4. DHabituation

Forgetting because new information interferes with remembering old information is called:

1. ARepression
2. BProactive interference
3. CRetroactive interference
4. DDecay

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

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

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

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

Baddeley added the episodic buffer to the working memory model to explain how working memory:

1. ABinds information from different sources and from long-term memory
2. BDirects attention and switches between tasks
3. CRehearses speech sounds silently with an inner voice
4. DStores visual information for a fraction of a second

Change blindness experiments show that people often:

1. AAre better at spotting changes in faces than in objects in all cases
2. BSee changes only in colour, not in shape
3. CFail to notice large changes in a scene when the change happens during a brief interruption
4. DNotice every small change in their visual field

After a stroke in the right parietal lobe, a patient eats only from the right side of the plate and draws only the right half of a clock. This is:

1. AUnilateral spatial neglect
2. BProsopagnosia
3. CLeft visual field blindsight
4. DAnterograde amnesia