Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

In categorisation research, a prototype is:

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

Damage to Broca's area typically causes difficulty with:

1. AUnderstanding spoken words
2. BForming new memories
3. CRecognising faces
4. DProducing fluent speech

The "cognitive revolution" of the 1950s and 1960s shifted psychology's focus towards:

1. AInternal mental processes such as memory and thinking
2. BOnly observable behaviour and reinforcement
3. CIntrospection about raw sensations only
4. DUnconscious sexual and aggressive drives

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

1. AProactive interference
2. BEncoding failure
3. CAnterograde amnesia
4. DRetroactive interference

A patient can no longer form new long-term memories after brain surgery but remembers events from before the operation. This is called:

1. AAnterograde amnesia
2. BInfantile amnesia
3. CRetrograde amnesia
4. DDissociative amnesia

People recall more words from a list of short words (e.g. "cat, sun") than from a list of long words. The usual explanation is that:

1. ALong words cause retroactive interference with earlier items
2. BLong words are processed more deeply and so crowd each other out
3. CShort words take less time to rehearse in the phonological loop
4. DShort words are held in iconic memory as well as acoustically

Clive Wearing developed severe amnesia after a brain infection and cannot remember events from moment to moment, yet he can still play the piano and conduct music. This shows that:

1. AAll long-term memory depends on a single system
2. BEpisodic memory is needed to perform any skill
3. CMusical skills are stored in short-term memory
4. DProcedural memory can survive severe loss of episodic memory

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

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