Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

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

1. AProcedural memory
2. BIconic memory
3. CFlashbulb memory
4. DScreen memory

Believing that after five tails in a row a fair coin is "due" to land heads is the:

1. AGambler's fallacy
2. BSunk cost fallacy
3. CEndowment effect
4. DHindsight bias

The smallest unit of language that carries meaning is a:

1. ALexicon
2. BPhrase
3. CMorpheme
4. DPhoneme

A friend walking away from you does not seem to shrink, even though their image on your retina gets smaller. This is called:

1. ASize constancy
2. BFigure–ground organisation
3. CLinear perspective
4. DShape constancy

In dual-process theory, which task most clearly requires System 2 thinking?

1. AReading a large familiar word on a road sign
2. BNoticing that a sound is loud
3. CRecognising a friend's face
4. DWorking out 17 × 24 in your head

Counting the windows in your house by picturing walking around it mainly uses which working memory component?

1. ALong-term procedural memory
2. BThe visuospatial sketchpad
3. CThe episodic buffer
4. DThe phonological loop

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. ASeparate visual streams for perception and action
2. BFeature binding through focused spatial attention
3. CA single visual system used for every visual task
4. DEarly selection of attention before perception

When a video shows a face saying "ga" while the audio says "ba", many people hear "da". This shows that:

1. ASpeech perception combines what we see and hear
2. BPeople cannot tell similar speech sounds apart
3. CHearing always overrides vision when they conflict
4. DVision is ignored when we listen to speech