Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

The feeling after an event that "I knew it all along" is called:

1. AAnchoring
2. BConfirmation bias
3. COverconfidence
4. DHindsight bias

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

1. AOnly observable behaviour and reinforcement
2. BIntrospection about raw sensations only
3. CUnconscious sexual and aggressive drives
4. DInternal mental processes such as memory and thinking

Damage to Broca's area typically causes difficulty with:

1. AForming new memories
2. BProducing fluent speech
3. CRecognising faces
4. DUnderstanding spoken words

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. AAnchoring effect
2. BSunk cost fallacy
3. CEndowment effect
4. DGambler's fallacy

Which working memory component is most heavily used when you switch between two tasks and decide what to focus on?

1. AIconic memory
2. BThe central executive
3. CThe phonological loop
4. DThe visuospatial sketchpad

In Shepard and Metzler's mental rotation task, the time to decide whether two 3D shapes are the same:

1. AIncreases with the angle between the two shapes
2. BDecreases as the angle between them gets larger
3. CDepends mainly on how complex the shapes are
4. DIs the same whatever the angle of rotation is

Evidence that short-term and long-term memory are separate stores comes from patients who:

1. ALose all memories after a mild headache
2. BRemember everything equally well
3. CHave impaired long-term learning but normal digit span, and others with the opposite pattern
4. DShow the same recall for all list positions

In a city, 85% of cabs are green and 15% are blue. A witness who is correct 80% of the time says the cab in an accident was blue. What is the probability it really was blue?

1. AAbout 41%
2. BAbout 15%
3. CAbout 80%
4. DAbout 68%