Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

A vivid, detailed memory of where you were when you heard shocking news is called a:

1. AFlashbulb memory
2. BProcedural memory
3. CScreen memory
4. DIconic memory

Which type of memory stores facts such as "Paris is the capital of France"?

1. ASemantic memory
2. BSensory memory
3. CEpisodic memory
4. DProcedural memory

Which researchers proposed the multi-store model of memory?

1. AAtkinson and Shiffrin
2. BLoftus and Palmer
3. CCraik and Lockhart
4. DBaddeley and Hitch

Broadbent's filter model of attention proposes that unattended messages are:

1. AWeakened but still analysed for important meanings, such as names
2. BProcessed at the same level as the attended message
3. CFully analysed for meaning and then quickly forgotten
4. DBlocked by physical features before meaning is analysed

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. CAnchoring effect
4. DEndowment effect

A patient can no longer form new long-term memories after brain surgery but remembers events from before the operation. This is called:

1. ARetrograde amnesia
2. BInfantile amnesia
3. CAnterograde amnesia
4. DDissociative amnesia

Patient D.F. could not report the orientation of a slot but could accurately post a card through it. Milner and Goodale used this to support the idea of:

1. AA single visual system used for every visual task
2. BEarly selection of attention before perception
3. CSeparate visual streams for perception and action
4. DFeature binding through focused spatial attention

In Posner's cueing task, responses are faster after a valid cue and slower after an invalid cue, even when the eyes do not move. This shows that:

1. ACues have no real effect on how fast targets are processed
2. BAttention always follows the direction of gaze
3. CPeripheral vision cannot detect targets without eye movement
4. DAttention can shift to a location without moving the eyes