Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

What is "chunking"?

1. AForgetting information in large blocks
2. BSplitting attention between two tasks
3. CRepeating information aloud to remember it
4. DGrouping information into meaningful units to remember more

Damage to Wernicke's area typically causes:

1. AFluent but largely meaningless speech with poor comprehension
2. BLoss of the ability to recognise familiar faces
3. CSlow, effortful speech with good comprehension
4. DLoss of the ability to read but not to write

Which of these is a binocular depth cue?

1. ATexture gradient
2. BLinear perspective
3. CInterposition
4. DRetinal disparity

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. BSpreading activation in a semantic network
3. CIconic memory decay
4. DThe phonological similarity effect

A strategy that breaks a problem into subgoals, each reducing the difference between the current state and the goal, is called:

1. AInsight
2. BIncubation
3. CMeans–end analysis
4. DTrial and error

In Baddeley and Hitch's working memory model, which component handles verbal and acoustic information?

1. AThe central executive
2. BThe episodic buffer
3. CThe phonological loop
4. DThe visuospatial sketchpad

Participants practise retrieving some items from a studied category (e.g. "fruit – orange"). Later, unpractised items from the same category (e.g. "fruit – banana") are recalled worse than items from unpractised categories. This is:

1. ADecay over time
2. BRetrieval-induced forgetting
3. CRetroactive interference from a new list
4. DThe testing effect

Linda is described as outspoken and concerned with social justice. Many people judge "Linda is a bank teller and a feminist" more likely than "Linda is a bank teller". What is the error?

1. ACorrect base-rate use: feminists are common among bank tellers
2. BThe gambler's fallacy: past events change the future odds
3. CThe conjunction fallacy: A and B cannot be likelier than A
4. DAnchoring: the first description fixes the later estimate