Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

The representativeness heuristic means judging the probability of something by:

1. AHow much time or money you have already invested in it
2. BHow closely it resembles a typical example
3. CThe first number you were given
4. DHow easily examples come to mind

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

1. AIntrospection about raw sensations only
2. BInternal mental processes such as memory and thinking
3. CUnconscious sexual and aggressive drives
4. DOnly observable behaviour and reinforcement

Which researchers proposed the multi-store model of memory?

1. ALoftus and Palmer
2. BCraik and Lockhart
3. CAtkinson and Shiffrin
4. DBaddeley and Hitch

After studying the words "bed, rest, tired, dream, snooze", many people falsely recall "sleep". This paradigm demonstrates:

1. ARapid decay of items in iconic memory
2. BFalse memories produced by related associations
3. CThe word length effect in verbal memory
4. DNear-perfect recall of meaningful, related word lists

In January you keep writing last year's date on forms. This is an example of:

1. AAnterograde amnesia
2. BRetroactive interference
3. CProactive interference
4. DEncoding failure

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

1. AUniversal grammar
2. BSemantic priming
3. CPhonemic restoration
4. DLinguistic relativity

A patient with a long history of heavy alcohol use cannot form new memories and fills gaps with invented stories that he believes. This is typical of:

1. ARetrograde amnesia only
2. BWernicke's aphasia
3. CKorsakoff's syndrome
4. DDissociative amnesia

The Stroop effect shows that:

1. AColour perception depends only on the eyes
2. BAttention can be divided without any cost
3. CReading words is so automatic that it interferes with naming the ink colour
4. DPeople can name colours faster than they can read words