Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

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1.Easy

Damage to Wernicke's area typically causes:

  1. ALoss of the ability to recognise familiar faces
  2. BLoss of the ability to read but not to write
  3. CFluent but largely meaningless speech with poor comprehension
  4. DSlow, effortful speech with good comprehension
2.Easy

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

  1. APET
  2. BfMRI
  3. CCT
  4. DEEG
3.Easy

In cognitive psychology, a schema is:

  1. AA single item held in short-term memory
  2. BA visual illusion caused by misleading depth cues in a scene
  3. CAn organised framework of knowledge about something
  4. DA sudden loss of memory after brain injury
4.Medium

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

  1. ARetroactive interference
  2. BProactive interference
  3. CAnterograde amnesia
  4. DEncoding failure
5.Medium

In Cherry's dichotic listening studies, participants shadowing one ear usually noticed which change in the unattended ear?

  1. AWords repeated several times
  2. BThe meaning of the words
  3. CA switch from English to German in the same voice
  4. DA switch from a male to a female voice
6.Medium

Which statement best describes top-down processing in perception?

  1. AOnly the lower parts of the visual field are processed
  2. BExpectations and knowledge shape how we interpret sensory input
  3. CPerception is built only from the raw features of the incoming stimulus
  4. DPerception happens without any involvement of memory
7.Hard

Morris, Bransford and Franks found that words processed for rhyme were better recognised in a rhyming test than words processed for meaning. This challenges levels of processing because:

  1. AMemory depends on the match between encoding and test, not only on depth
  2. BShallow processing is always better than deep processing
  3. CMeaning cannot be processed during learning
  4. DRhyming words are stored in iconic memory
8.Hard

Which finding supports a reconstructive view of memory (Bartlett)?

  1. APeople retelling an unfamiliar story change it to fit their own culture
  2. BPeople can recall long lists of digits perfectly
  3. CShort-term memory holds about seven items
  4. DMemories of emotional events never change

Answer key

  1. 1. C · Fluent but largely meaningless speech with poor comprehension
  2. 2. D · EEG
  3. 3. C · An organised framework of knowledge about something
  4. 4. B · Proactive interference
  5. 5. D · A switch from a male to a female voice
  6. 6. B · Expectations and knowledge shape how we interpret sensory input
  7. 7. A · Memory depends on the match between encoding and test, not only on depth
  8. 8. A · People retelling an unfamiliar story change it to fit their own culture

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