Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

Which of these is a binocular depth cue?

1. AInterposition
2. BRetinal disparity
3. CTexture gradient
4. DLinear perspective

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

1. APhoneme
2. BScript
3. CHeuristic
4. DPrototype

Forgetting because new information interferes with remembering old information is called:

1. ARepression
2. BProactive interference
3. CDecay
4. DRetroactive interference

Lists of similar-sounding letters (B, G, V, T) are harder to recall immediately than dissimilar letters (F, K, Y, W). This suggests short-term memory:

1. AStores letters mainly as visual images of their shapes
2. BHas unlimited capacity for letters
3. CMainly codes information by meaning
4. DMainly codes verbal information acoustically

Baddeley added the episodic buffer to the working memory model to explain how working memory:

1. AStores visual information for a fraction of a second
2. BRehearses speech sounds silently with an inner voice
3. CBinds information from different sources and from long-term memory
4. DDirects attention and switches between tasks

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 stored only as abstract verbal descriptions of the scene
2. BCannot be inspected once formed
3. CPreserve spatial relationships of the real scene
4. DAre processed in the phonological loop

Change blindness experiments show that people often:

1. AFail to notice large changes in a scene when the change happens during a brief interruption
2. BSee changes only in colour, not in shape
3. CAre better at spotting changes in faces than in objects in all cases
4. DNotice every small change in their visual field

A patient with a long history of heavy alcohol use cannot form new memories and fills gaps with invented stories that he believes. This is typical of:

1. AWernicke's aphasia
2. BKorsakoff's syndrome
3. CRetrograde amnesia only
4. DDissociative amnesia