Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Linking new information to things you already know, so it becomes meaningful, is called:

1. ADecay
2. BMaintenance rehearsal
3. CRote repetition
4. DElaborative rehearsal

In categorisation research, a prototype is:

1. AThe most typical member or average example of a category
2. BThe first example of a category that a child learns in early life
3. CA strict list of features every member must have
4. DA rare and unusual member of a category

Continuing to invest in a failing project because of the money already spent is called the:

1. AGambler's fallacy
2. BSunk cost fallacy
3. CFraming effect
4. DAvailability heuristic

People recall more words from a list of short words (e.g. "cat, sun") than from a list of long words. The usual explanation is that:

1. AShort words take less time to rehearse in the phonological loop
2. BLong words cause retroactive interference with earlier items
3. CLong words are processed more deeply and so crowd each other out
4. DShort words are held in iconic memory as well as acoustically

The serial position effect predicts that items in a list are recalled best when they are:

1. AAt the beginning and end of the list
2. BIn the middle of the list
3. CRandomly placed, whatever the length of the list
4. DOnly at the beginning of the list

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

1. APhonemic restoration
2. BUniversal grammar
3. CSemantic priming
4. DLinguistic relativity

Change blindness experiments show that people often:

1. AAre better at spotting changes in faces than in objects in all cases
2. BFail to notice large changes in a scene when the change happens during a brief interruption
3. CSee changes only in colour, not in shape
4. DNotice every small change in their visual field

Readers stumble on "The horse raced past the barn fell" before understanding it. What does this show about sentence processing?

1. AShort sentences are always harder than long ones
2. BPeople build an interpretation word by word and must revise it when it fails
3. CPeople wait until the end of a sentence before interpreting it
4. DGrammar plays no role in understanding