Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Which of these is a binocular depth cue?

1. ALinear perspective
2. BInterposition
3. CRetinal disparity
4. DTexture gradient

Which type of memory stores facts such as "Paris is the capital of France"?

1. ASemantic memory
2. BSensory memory
3. CProcedural memory
4. DEpisodic memory

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

1. AIconic memory
2. BSelective attention
3. CDivided attention
4. DSustained attention

Kosslyn found that the time to mentally scan between two landmarks on an imagined map increased with their distance. This suggests that mental images:

1. APreserve spatial relationships of the real scene
2. BCannot be inspected once formed
3. CAre stored only as abstract verbal descriptions of the scene
4. DAre processed in the phonological loop

Encoding specificity means that recall is best when:

1. AThe context at retrieval matches the context at learning
2. BLearning happens just before sleep only
3. CThe material is learned in a noisy room
4. DInformation is learned in one long session

In Shepard and Metzler's mental rotation task, the time to decide whether two 3D shapes are the same:

1. AIs the same whatever the angle of rotation is
2. BIncreases with the angle between the two shapes
3. CDepends mainly on how complex the shapes are
4. DDecreases as the angle between them gets larger

The Stroop effect shows that:

1. AAttention can be divided without any cost
2. BPeople can name colours faster than they can read words
3. CReading words is so automatic that it interferes with naming the ink colour
4. DColour perception depends only on the eyes

The "tip-of-the-tongue" state is evidence that:

1. ALanguage is stored only in short-term memory
2. BMemories decay within seconds
3. CInformation can be stored but temporarily not retrievable
4. DThe information was never encoded