Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

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1.Easy

Damage to Wernicke's area typically causes:

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

Believing that after five tails in a row a fair coin is "due" to land heads is the:

  1. ASunk cost fallacy
  2. BGambler's fallacy
  3. CHindsight bias
  4. DEndowment effect
3.Easy

Who first measured the "forgetting curve" using nonsense syllables?

  1. AHermann Ebbinghaus
  2. BEndel Tulving
  3. CUlric Neisser
  4. DFrederic Bartlett
4.Medium

Which of these is an ill-defined problem?

  1. AFinding the sum of two numbers
  2. BSolving an anagram
  3. CCompleting a Tower of Hanoi puzzle
  4. DDesigning a pleasant garden
5.Medium

After studying the words "bed, rest, tired, dream, snooze", many people falsely recall "sleep". This paradigm demonstrates:

  1. AThe word length effect in verbal memory
  2. BNear-perfect recall of meaningful, related word lists
  3. CRapid decay of items in iconic memory
  4. DFalse memories produced by related associations
6.Medium

"All mammals breathe air. Whales are mammals. Therefore whales breathe air." This is an example of:

  1. AInductive reasoning
  2. BDeductive reasoning
  3. CThe availability heuristic
  4. DAnalogical reasoning
7.Hard

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. AEpisodic memory is needed to perform any skill
  2. BMusical skills are stored in short-term memory
  3. CProcedural memory can survive severe loss of episodic memory
  4. DAll long-term memory depends on a single system
8.Hard

Moray found that people often noticed their own name in the unattended ear during shadowing. Why was this a problem for Broadbent's filter model?

  1. AIt shows that people cannot shadow at all
  2. BIt shows names are stored in iconic memory
  3. CIt proves that both ears are always attended to equally
  4. DIt shows some unattended input is analysed for meaning

Answer key

  1. 1. A · Fluent but largely meaningless speech with poor comprehension
  2. 2. B · Gambler's fallacy
  3. 3. A · Hermann Ebbinghaus
  4. 4. D · Designing a pleasant garden
  5. 5. D · False memories produced by related associations
  6. 6. B · Deductive reasoning
  7. 7. C · Procedural memory can survive severe loss of episodic memory
  8. 8. D · It shows some unattended input is analysed for meaning

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