Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Damage to Broca's area typically causes difficulty with:

1. AForming new memories
2. BRecognising faces
3. CUnderstanding spoken words
4. DProducing fluent speech

What is "chunking"?

1. AGrouping information into meaningful units to remember more
2. BForgetting information in large blocks
3. CSplitting attention between two tasks
4. DRepeating information aloud to remember it

A multiple-choice exam mainly tests which kind of retrieval?

1. ARecognition
2. BFree recall
3. CSerial recall
4. DRelearning

People verify "A robin is a bird" faster than "A penguin is a bird". This finding supports:

1. AThe multi-store model of memory
2. BPrototype theory and graded category membership
3. CFeature integration theory
4. DThe classical view that all members are equally good examples

Loftus and Palmer's car crash study showed that:

1. AMemory for faces is more reliable than memory for events
2. BEyewitnesses are always accurate about speed
3. CThe wording of a question can change eyewitness memory
4. DStress improves the accuracy of recall

Rubin's vase, which can be seen as a vase or as two faces, illustrates:

1. AThe law of closure
2. BRetinal disparity
3. CFigure–ground organisation
4. DSize constancy

In Treisman's feature integration theory, why is finding a red X among red Os and blue Xs slow?

1. ARed is processed more slowly than blue
2. BLetters cannot be searched visually
3. CCombining features (a conjunction) requires focused attention to each item
4. DSingle features cannot be detected without attention

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. BRemember everything equally well
3. CShow the same recall for all list positions
4. DLose all memories after a mild headache