Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Which method records the brain's electrical activity through electrodes on the scalp and has excellent temporal resolution?

1. ACT
2. BfMRI
3. CPET
4. DEEG

The "cognitive revolution" of the 1950s and 1960s shifted psychology's focus towards:

1. AUnconscious sexual and aggressive drives
2. BInternal mental processes such as memory and thinking
3. COnly observable behaviour and reinforcement
4. DIntrospection about raw sensations only

Damage to Broca's area typically causes difficulty with:

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

"All mammals breathe air. Whales are mammals. Therefore whales breathe air." This is an example of:

1. AInductive reasoning
2. BDeductive reasoning
3. CAnalogical reasoning
4. DThe availability heuristic

A student who studied while drinking coffee recalls more when tested after drinking coffee. This illustrates:

1. AState-dependent memory
2. BThe spacing effect
3. CThe serial position effect
4. DFlashbulb memory

Students given a coffee mug ask for a much higher price to sell it than other students will pay to buy it. This is the:

1. AGambler's fallacy
2. BAnchoring effect
3. CSunk cost fallacy
4. DEndowment effect

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. CColour perception depends only on the eyes
4. DReading words is so automatic that it interferes with naming the ink colour

Clive Wearing developed severe amnesia after a brain infection and cannot remember events from moment to moment, yet he can still play the piano and conduct music. This shows that:

1. AAll long-term memory depends on a single system
2. BProcedural memory can survive severe loss of episodic memory
3. CEpisodic memory is needed to perform any skill
4. DMusical skills are stored in short-term memory