Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Trying to perform two tasks at the same time, such as texting while listening to a lecture, involves:

1. ASelective attention
2. BSustained attention
3. CDivided attention
4. DIconic memory

Which researchers proposed the multi-store model of memory?

1. AAtkinson and Shiffrin
2. BLoftus and Palmer
3. CBaddeley and Hitch
4. DCraik and Lockhart

Knowing that you understand a topic well enough to stop studying is an example of:

1. AHabituation
2. BPriming
3. CMetacognition
4. DProactive interference

Inattentional blindness is shown by the study in which participants failed to notice:

1. AA change in the colour of a single letter
2. BA person in a gorilla suit walking through a basketball game
3. CA tone played in one ear
4. DA word flashed below the threshold of awareness

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

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

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

1. ATrial and error
2. BInsight
3. CIncubation
4. DMeans–end analysis

According to Lavie's load theory of attention, an irrelevant distractor is most likely to be processed when:

1. AThe participant is told to ignore it
2. BThe main task has high perceptual load
3. CThe distractor is presented to the blind spot
4. DThe main task has low perceptual load

Gick and Holyoak gave participants a story about an army attacking a fortress from many sides, then Duncker's radiation problem. What did they find?

1. AThe story made the radiation problem harder to solve
2. BAlmost everyone used the analogy without needing any hint
3. CNobody could solve the radiation problem, even with a hint
4. DFew used the analogy until told the story might help