Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

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

1. AfMRI
2. BEEG
3. CPET
4. DCT

Damage to Broca's area typically causes difficulty with:

1. AUnderstanding spoken words
2. BProducing fluent speech
3. CRecognising faces
4. DForming new memories

Selective attention is best illustrated by:

1. ARemembering a phone number for a few seconds
2. BFollowing one conversation at a noisy party
3. CRecognising a face you have seen before
4. DSolving an arithmetic problem

The availability heuristic means people judge how likely an event is by:

1. AIts actual statistical frequency
2. BHow easily examples come to mind
3. CHow similar it is to a typical case
4. DThe first number they hear

The serial position effect predicts that items in a list are recalled best when they are:

1. AAt the beginning and end of the list
2. BRandomly placed, whatever the length of the list
3. COnly at the beginning of the list
4. DIn the middle of the list

Broadbent's filter model of attention proposes that unattended messages are:

1. AWeakened but still analysed for important meanings, such as names
2. BFully analysed for meaning and then quickly forgotten
3. CBlocked by physical features before meaning is analysed
4. DProcessed at the same level as the attended message

After a stroke in the right parietal lobe, a patient eats only from the right side of the plate and draws only the right half of a clock. This is:

1. AUnilateral spatial neglect
2. BAnterograde amnesia
3. CProsopagnosia
4. DLeft visual field blindsight

In Luchins' water jar problems, after solving several problems with the formula B − A − 2C, many participants kept using it even when a simpler solution (A − C) worked. This shows:

1. AFunctional fixedness about what the jars can be used for
2. BA mental set (Einstellung) that hides simpler solutions
3. CSudden insight into the structure of the problem
4. DProactive interference in short-term memory