Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

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1.Easy

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

  1. AForming a closed shape
  2. BClose to each other
  3. CMoving in the same direction
  4. DSimilar in colour
2.Easy

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

  1. AFlashbulb memory
  2. BIconic memory
  3. CProcedural memory
  4. DScreen memory
3.Easy

Which memory store holds visual information for a fraction of a second?

  1. AEchoic memory
  2. BLong-term memory
  3. CIconic memory
  4. DWorking memory
4.Medium

People verify "A robin is a bird" faster than "A penguin is a bird". This finding supports:

  1. APrototype theory and graded category membership
  2. BThe multi-store model of memory
  3. CThe classical view that all members are equally good examples
  4. DFeature integration theory
5.Medium

In the Brown–Peterson task, participants count backwards by threes after seeing a trigram such as "KTR". The main finding was that:

  1. ARecall fell sharply within about 18 seconds without rehearsal
  2. BCounting backwards made the trigrams easier to remember
  3. COnly the first letter of each trigram tended to be forgotten
  4. DRecall stayed almost perfect even after 18 seconds of counting
6.Medium

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. ARetroactive interference
  2. BThe phonological similarity effect
  3. CSpreading activation in a semantic network
  4. DIconic memory decay
7.Hard

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. AProsopagnosia
  2. BLeft visual field blindsight
  3. CAnterograde amnesia
  4. DUnilateral spatial neglect
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. BMeaning cannot be processed during learning
  3. CRhyming words are stored in iconic memory
  4. DMemory depends on the match between encoding and test, not only on depth

Answer key

  1. 1. B · Close to each other
  2. 2. A · Flashbulb memory
  3. 3. C · Iconic memory
  4. 4. A · Prototype theory and graded category membership
  5. 5. A · Recall fell sharply within about 18 seconds without rehearsal
  6. 6. C · Spreading activation in a semantic network
  7. 7. D · Unilateral spatial neglect
  8. 8. D · Memory depends on the match between encoding and test, not only on depth

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