Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Riding a bicycle without thinking about it relies mainly on:

1. AIconic memory
2. BEpisodic memory
3. CProcedural memory
4. DSemantic memory

What is a heuristic?

1. AA disorder of perception
2. BA mental shortcut used to make judgements quickly
3. CA type of long-term memory
4. DA step-by-step procedure that always finds the right answer

Which memory store holds visual information for a fraction of a second?

1. AIconic memory
2. BWorking memory
3. CEchoic memory
4. DLong-term memory

People verify "A robin is a bird" faster than "A penguin is a bird". This finding supports:

1. AFeature integration theory
2. BThe multi-store model of memory
3. CPrototype theory and graded category membership
4. DThe classical view that all members are equally good examples

Repeating "the, the, the" aloud while learning a word list impairs recall because it:

1. APrevents the eyes from reading the words
2. BBlocks rehearsal in the phonological loop
3. CErases information already in long-term memory
4. DOverloads the visuospatial sketchpad

A patient can no longer form new long-term memories after brain surgery but remembers events from before the operation. This is called:

1. ADissociative amnesia
2. BAnterograde amnesia
3. CRetrograde amnesia
4. DInfantile amnesia

Glanzer and Cunitz had participants count for 30 seconds between hearing a list and recalling it. Which result did they find?

1. ABoth effects became larger
2. BThe primacy effect disappeared, but the recency effect remained
3. CRecall became equal at all positions except the middle
4. DThe recency effect disappeared, but the primacy effect remained

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

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