Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

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

1. ARote repetition
2. BElaborative rehearsal
3. CDecay
4. DMaintenance rehearsal

Knowing the usual order of events when eating at a restaurant (being seated, ordering, eating, paying) is called a:

1. AHeuristic
2. BPrototype
3. CScript
4. DPhoneme

The representativeness heuristic means judging the probability of something by:

1. AHow much time or money you have already invested in it
2. BThe first number you were given
3. CHow closely it resembles a typical example
4. DHow easily examples come to mind

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

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

In January you keep writing last year's date on forms. This is an example of:

1. AAnterograde amnesia
2. BProactive interference
3. CRetroactive interference
4. DEncoding failure

According to the levels-of-processing approach, which task leads to the best recall of words?

1. ACounting the letters in each word
2. BDeciding whether each word fits into a sentence
3. CDeciding whether each word is in capital letters
4. DDeciding whether each word rhymes with "cat"

In prospect theory, losses typically feel:

1. AAbout twice as strong as gains of the same size
2. BWeaker than gains of the same size
3. CStrong only when they are certain
4. DExactly as strong as gains of the same size, on average

Countries where people are organ donors unless they opt out have far higher donor rates than countries where people must opt in. This is best explained by:

1. AThe availability heuristic
2. BThe default effect and status quo bias
3. CBelief bias in moral reasoning about donation
4. DThe sunk cost fallacy