Free Cognitive Psychology MCQs with Answers
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- A. Visio-spatial sketch pad
- B. Phonological loop
- C. Central executive
- D. Episodic bufferGet Study Guides
Explanation: The episodic buffer was added to integrate information from the phonological loop, visuospatial sketchpad, and long-term memory into…
Correct answer: Episodic bufferGet Study Guides- A. External memories have stronger sensory attributes.
- B. Internal memories are more detailed and complex.
- C. External memories have more traces of the reasoning and imaging that generated them.
- D. Internal memories are set in a coherent context of time and placeTake Psychology Courses
Explanation: In reality monitoring, externally generated memories tend to contain stronger sensory and perceptual detail, while internally generated…
Correct answer: External memories have stronger sensory attributes.- A. Elaborative rehearsal and spaced retrieval practice
- B. Maintenance rehearsal and frequent retrieval practice
- C. Schemas and mnemonics
- D. Explicit and implicit retrieval
Explanation: Elaborative rehearsal connects new material with meaning and existing knowledge, while spaced retrieval strengthens recall through…
Correct answer: Elaborative rehearsal and spaced retrieval practice- A. Sketches
- B. Schemes
- C. Episodes
- D. Schemas
Explanation: Schemas are organized knowledge structures that guide expectations and actions in familiar situations, such as attending school or…
Correct answer: Schemas- A. Sensory memory
- B. Short-term memory
- C. Long-term memory
- D. Explicit memoryTake Psychology Courses
Explanation: Sensory memory holds incoming sights, sounds, and other sensations for only a fraction of a second before they fade or enter short-term…
Correct answer: Sensory memory- A. What will be remembered later depends on how hard people study
- B. What will be remembered later depends on the similarity between the test conditions and the original study conditions.
- C. We are more likely to rely on episodic memory when study and semantic memory when we take twests
- D. What will be remembered depends on how we process the information
Explanation: Encoding specificity means recall improves when the conditions at retrieval resemble those present during learning.
Correct answer: What will be remembered later depends on the similarity between the test conditions and the original study conditions.- A. Episodic, semantic
- B. Semantic, episodic
- C. Autobiographical semantic
- D. Autobiographical and episodicTake Psychology Courses
Explanation: Episodic memory stores personally experienced events tied to particular times and places, whereas semantic memory stores general facts and…
Correct answer: Episodic, semantic- A. Bring information to mind in response to non-specific cues.
- B. Bring information to mind in response to specific cues.
- C. Identify information provide at test time as having been encountered previously.
- D. Respond differently to previously encountered information than to new information.
Explanation: Priming is shown when previous exposure changes how a person responds to later information, often without conscious recollection.
Correct answer: Respond differently to previously encountered information than to new information.- A. Retrieval
- B. Eyewitness testimony
- C. Crime
- D. Criminal investigations
- E. Maintaining violent behavior
Explanation: These variables concern eyewitness testimony because they can influence what a witness notices, remembers and later reports.
Correct answer: Eyewitness testimony- A. Criminals
- B. Leadings
- C. Watching car aaccidents
- D. Cognitive interviews
- E. visual depictions of accidentsRun Background Checks
Explanation: The word “smashed” is a leading question cue that can distort recall and increase reports of details, such as broken glass, that were not…
Correct answer: Leadings- A. Leadings questions
- B. Change perspective
- C. Reporting everything
- D. Context reinstatement
- E. Reverse order
Explanation: Leading questions can introduce misinformation and bias an eyewitness rather than improve accurate retrieval.
Correct answer: Leadings questions- A. The ability to think and talk about language and its properties
- B. The ability to think and talk about gender and its properties
- C. The ability to read mathematical operations
- D. The ability to speak multiple languages
Explanation: Metalinguistic awareness is the ability to treat language as an object of thought, such as reflecting on word meanings, grammar, or…
Correct answer: The ability to think and talk about language and its properties- A. Metacognitive skills
- B. Experiential intelligence
- C. Speed of processing
- D. Frames of mindPeople & Society
Explanation: Metacognitive skills involve monitoring and regulating one’s own thinking, including choosing strategies and checking whether a…
Correct answer: Metacognitive skills- A. heredity may impose upper limits on intelligence.
- B. heredity may impose lower limits on intelligence.
- C. intelligence is almost completely related to genetic inheritance.
- D. the similarity in IQ scores among maternal relatives is greater that that among paternal relatives.
Explanation: Heredity helps set a potential upper range for intellectual performance, while environmental factors influence how fully that potential is…
Correct answer: heredity may impose upper limits on intelligence.- A. generation factors
- B. general abilities
- C. Gardner factors
- D. group factors
Explanation: The g-factor means general intelligence, or the broad mental ability that contributes to performance across different cognitive tasks.
Correct answer: general abilities- A. is approximately normal or bell-shaped.
- B. shows that most people score between 80 and 100.
- C. reveals a difference in the average for men and women.
- D. falls of abruptly above 100.
Explanation: IQ scores are deliberately distributed to approximate a normal, bell-shaped curve around an average of 100.
Correct answer: is approximately normal or bell-shaped.- A. the number of mistakes a person makes
- B. the amount of time a person needs to clap their hands when instructed
- C. the brain activity that follows exposure to a stimulus
- D. how quickly a person can blink their eyes after being told to do so
Explanation: Speed of processing can be assessed through the brain activity occurring after a stimulus, such as event-related potentials, which…
Correct answer: the brain activity that follows exposure to a stimulus- A. Achievement
- B. Intelligence
- C. Aptitude
- D. Scholastics
Explanation: Aptitude is the potential or capacity to learn a particular skill, such as mechanical or verbal ability.
Correct answer: Aptitude- A. have a greater susceptibility to mental illness in adulthood.
- B. score in the average IQ range as adults.
- C. are successful during their youth but fail to reach their potential in adulthood.
- D. are generally successful in their chosen occupations as adults.
Explanation: Terman’s longitudinal research found that gifted children generally adjusted well and achieved success in their adult careers.
Correct answer: are generally successful in their chosen occupations as adults.- A. WISC-IV
- B. WAIS-III
- C. WPPSI-III
- D. WADE-IV
Explanation: WISC, WAIS, and WPPSI are Wechsler intelligence scales for children, adults, and preschoolers respectively.
Correct answer: WADE-IV