Cognitive psychology worksheet with answers

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1.Easy

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

  1. AOnly observable behaviour and reinforcement
  2. BIntrospection about raw sensations only
  3. CInternal mental processes such as memory and thinking
  4. DUnconscious sexual and aggressive drives
2.Easy

Functional fixedness is the tendency to:

  1. ASolve every problem with the same algorithm
  2. BForget the purpose of an object after a delay
  3. CSee an object only in terms of its usual use
  4. DRemember objects better than words
3.Easy

The smallest unit of sound in a language that can change the meaning of a word is a:

  1. APhoneme
  2. BSyllable
  3. CMorpheme
  4. DGrapheme
4.Medium

In Baddeley and Hitch's working memory model, which component handles verbal and acoustic information?

  1. AThe phonological loop
  2. BThe episodic buffer
  3. CThe central executive
  4. DThe visuospatial sketchpad
5.Medium

In Shepard and Metzler's mental rotation task, the time to decide whether two 3D shapes are the same:

  1. AIs the same whatever the angle of rotation is
  2. BDecreases as the angle between them gets larger
  3. CIncreases with the angle between the two shapes
  4. DDepends mainly on how complex the shapes are
6.Medium

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. CStress improves the accuracy of recall
  4. DThe wording of a question can change eyewitness memory
7.Hard

When a video shows a face saying "ga" while the audio says "ba", many people hear "da". This shows that:

  1. AHearing always overrides vision when they conflict
  2. BSpeech perception combines what we see and hear
  3. CPeople cannot tell similar speech sounds apart
  4. DVision is ignored when we listen to speech
8.Hard

H.M. practised mirror drawing over several days. His performance improved steadily, yet each day he said he had never done the task before. What does this show?

  1. AMirror drawing depends mainly on the hippocampus
  2. BH.M. was only pretending not to remember the sessions
  3. CSkills can be learned without remembering the practice
  4. DHis improvement came from rehearsal in short-term memory

Answer key

  1. 1. C · Internal mental processes such as memory and thinking
  2. 2. C · See an object only in terms of its usual use
  3. 3. A · Phoneme
  4. 4. A · The phonological loop
  5. 5. C · Increases with the angle between the two shapes
  6. 6. D · The wording of a question can change eyewitness memory
  7. 7. B · Speech perception combines what we see and hear
  8. 8. C · Skills can be learned without remembering the practice

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