Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

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1.Easy

Damage to Broca's area typically causes difficulty with:

  1. AUnderstanding spoken words
  2. BForming new memories
  3. CProducing fluent speech
  4. DRecognising faces
2.Easy

Declarative memory, which can be consciously recalled and put into words, is also called:

  1. AExplicit memory
  2. BSensory memory
  3. CImplicit memory
  4. DMotor memory
3.Easy

Riding a bicycle without thinking about it relies mainly on:

  1. ASemantic memory
  2. BEpisodic memory
  3. CIconic memory
  4. DProcedural memory
4.Medium

Loftus and Palmer's car crash study showed that:

  1. AThe wording of a question can change eyewitness memory
  2. BMemory for faces is more reliable than memory for events
  3. CStress improves the accuracy of recall
  4. DEyewitnesses are always accurate about speed
5.Medium

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. AThe phonological similarity effect
  2. BRetroactive interference
  3. CSpreading activation in a semantic network
  4. DIconic memory decay
6.Medium

Encoding specificity means that recall is best when:

  1. AThe context at retrieval matches the context at learning
  2. BInformation is learned in one long session
  3. CLearning happens just before sleep only
  4. DThe material is learned in a noisy room
7.Hard

In Posner's cueing task, responses are faster after a valid cue and slower after an invalid cue, even when the eyes do not move. This shows that:

  1. AAttention can shift to a location without moving the eyes
  2. BCues have no real effect on how fast targets are processed
  3. CPeripheral vision cannot detect targets without eye movement
  4. DAttention always follows the direction of gaze
8.Hard

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. AA single visual system used for every visual task
  2. BSeparate visual streams for perception and action
  3. CEarly selection of attention before perception
  4. DFeature binding through focused spatial attention

Answer key

  1. 1. C · Producing fluent speech
  2. 2. A · Explicit memory
  3. 3. D · Procedural memory
  4. 4. A · The wording of a question can change eyewitness memory
  5. 5. C · Spreading activation in a semantic network
  6. 6. A · The context at retrieval matches the context at learning
  7. 7. A · Attention can shift to a location without moving the eyes
  8. 8. B · Separate visual streams for perception and action

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