Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

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1.Easy

Who first measured the "forgetting curve" using nonsense syllables?

  1. AEndel Tulving
  2. BHermann Ebbinghaus
  3. CUlric Neisser
  4. DFrederic Bartlett
2.Easy

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

  1. AScript
  2. BPrototype
  3. CPhoneme
  4. DHeuristic
3.Easy

In categorisation research, a prototype is:

  1. AThe most typical member or average example of a category
  2. BThe first example of a category that a child learns in early life
  3. CA strict list of features every member must have
  4. DA rare and unusual member of a category
4.Medium

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. AAre processed in the phonological loop
  2. BPreserve spatial relationships of the real scene
  3. CCannot be inspected once formed
  4. DAre stored only as abstract verbal descriptions of the scene
5.Medium

A friend walking away from you does not seem to shrink, even though their image on your retina gets smaller. This is called:

  1. ALinear perspective
  2. BFigure–ground organisation
  3. CShape constancy
  4. DSize constancy
6.Medium

Which feature is typical of an automatic process, such as reading a familiar word?

  1. AIt needs a lot of conscious effort
  2. BIt is easily disrupted by a second task
  3. CIt can only be done slowly, one step at a time
  4. DIt is fast and hard to stop once started
7.Hard

H.M. practised mirror drawing over several days. His performance improved steadily, yet each day he said he had never done the task before. What does this show?

  1. ASkills can be learned without remembering the practice
  2. BHis improvement came from rehearsal in short-term memory
  3. CH.M. was only pretending not to remember the sessions
  4. DMirror drawing depends mainly on the hippocampus
8.Hard

Evidence that short-term and long-term memory are separate stores comes from patients who:

  1. AHave impaired long-term learning but normal digit span, and others with the opposite pattern
  2. BShow the same recall for all list positions
  3. CRemember everything equally well
  4. DLose all memories after a mild headache

Answer key

  1. 1. B · Hermann Ebbinghaus
  2. 2. A · Script
  3. 3. A · The most typical member or average example of a category
  4. 4. B · Preserve spatial relationships of the real scene
  5. 5. D · Size constancy
  6. 6. D · It is fast and hard to stop once started
  7. 7. A · Skills can be learned without remembering the practice
  8. 8. A · Have impaired long-term learning but normal digit span, and others with the opposite pattern

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