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Cognitive Psychology

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Gestalt means

a)

unified whole

b)

fractured whole

c)

imagery perception

d)

cognitive perception

2.

Schemas are

a)

video tapes and photographs of people, places, or things

b)

'packets' of knowledge that correspond to frequently encountered people, objects or situations.

c)

pathways in the brain that enable us to see, hear, and remember pieces of unusual information

d)

one of the many ineffective tricks our brain uses to locate and remember past information

3.

Upon entering a bathroom for the first time you will recognize it is a bathroom but noticing the color of the walls and the layout of the room requires

a)

schema

b)

recognition

c)

memory

d)

encoding

4.

Loftus' research showed that the most problematic source of inaccurate eyewitness testimony was from

a)

witnesses conferring with each other about the events

b)

leading questions by police and lawyers

c)

underdeveloped schema leading to the witness not understanding their surroundings

d)

witnesses not wanting to participate in legal proceedings

5.

Long term memory is defined as

a)

is the process of repeatedly verbalizing or thinking about a piece of information

b)

the unlimited capacity memory store that can hold information over lengthy periods of time.

c)

bringing a thought or idea learned previously, and thus stored in memory into conscious awareness

d)

The retention of encoded material over time.

6.

Short Term Memory

a)

The retention of encoded material over time.

b)

the process in which information in your memory can be recalled

c)

the part of the memory system where information is stored for roughly 30 seconds

d)

a way of organizing information into familiar groupings.

7.

___________. is an ability that allows people to remember nearly every event of their life with great precision.

a)

hydrocephalus

b)

Hyperthymesia

c)

supranuclear palsy

d)

dementia

8.

Semantic memory

a)

Taking a photograph in one's mind of a specific event

b)

general knowledge that people remember, like counting by 10s

c)

memory of a specific event that took place in the person’s presence or through experience

d)

only is lost after a bout of anmesia

9.

Implicit memory –

a)

a memory that consists of the skills and procedures one has learned

b)

general knowledge memory of a skill or fact that you know but don't remember learning

c)

taking a photograph in one's mind of a specific event

d)

contains only memories of visual stimuli

10.

Perception is

a)

how our brain interacts with our nervous system

b)

how we relay information to others

c)

how we comprehend objects and events in the world around us

d)

what our eyes see

11.

a type of fixation that causes one to approach a problem the same way that has been successful in the past is called your

a)

echoic memory

b)

mental set

c)

mental capacity

d)

Ebbinghaus Curve

12.

The best definition of Cognitive Psychology would be

a)

The study of how people perceive, learn, remember, and think.

b)

The study of how the brain functions

c)

The analysis of how the brain, neurotransmitters, and other aspects of our biology influence our behaviors, thoughts, and actions

d)

The analysis of sensation within the neural function of the brain.

13.

Transforming incoming information into a usable form is the stage of memory called

a)

organization

b)

storage

c)

encoding

d)

retrieval

14.

__________ is known for memorizing nonsense syllables and plotting a curve of forgetting

a)

Loftus

b)

mneumonic

c)

Ebbinghaus

d)

Luriab

15.

A flashbulb memory would typically be stored in ________ memory.

a)

long-term memory

b)

short-term memory

c)

iconic memory

d)

implicit memory