Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

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

1. AEEG
2. BPET
3. CCT
4. DfMRI

The smallest unit of language that carries meaning is a:

1. APhoneme
2. BMorpheme
3. CPhrase
4. DLexicon

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

1. AMaintenance rehearsal
2. BElaborative rehearsal
3. CDecay
4. DRote repetition

People often accept an invalid syllogism if its conclusion sounds true, such as "Some vitamins are healthy". This is called:

1. AAnchoring
2. BHindsight bias
3. CSelf-serving bias
4. DBelief bias

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. AAnchoring effect
2. BSunk cost fallacy
3. CEndowment effect
4. DGambler's fallacy

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

Choosing the first flat that meets your minimum requirements, rather than comparing every flat available, is what Herbert Simon called:

1. AAnchoring
2. BSatisficing
3. CMeans–end analysis
4. DMaximising

Warren replaced one speech sound in a sentence with a cough. Listeners reported hearing the sentence intact and could not locate the cough correctly. This is evidence for:

1. APurely bottom-up speech perception
2. BTop-down influences in speech perception
3. CDamage to Broca's area
4. DEchoic memory lasting for several minutes