WGU D570 Cognitive Psychology EXAM | VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
| UPDATED 2026 | COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE
• Donder -✓✓ANSWER: Reaction time - takes 1/10th of a second to make a
decision
• Wundt -✓✓ANSWER: structuraism, used analytic introspection
• Ebbinghaus -✓✓ANSWER: nature of forgetting and memory, used savings
technique
• James -✓✓ANSWER: observation of mind
• Watson -✓✓ANSWER: little Albert experiment, making him afraid of furry white
things; conditioned phobias; applied CC to advertising
• Tolman -✓✓ANSWER: cognition; studied rats and discovered the "cognitive
map" in rats and humans
• Cherry's experiment -✓✓ANSWER: Study demonstrating selective auditory
attention.
• Neisser -✓✓ANSWER: father of cognitive psychology, published cogntiive
pyschology
,• Broadbent -✓✓ANSWER: proposed the first flow diagram of the mind, what
happens in the mind when directing attention to one stimulus in the environment
• Artificial intelligence -✓✓ANSWER: idea of john mccarthy's, the ability of a
computer to perform tasks usually associated with human intelligence
• Simon and Newell -✓✓ANSWER: created McCarthy's idea of AI and was able to
create proofs of math theorems that involve principles of logic
• Atkinson and Shiffron's model -✓✓ANSWER: model of memory
• Sensory memory -✓✓ANSWER: holds incoming information for a fraction of a
second and then passes most of this information to short term memory
• Short term memory -✓✓ANSWER: activated memory that holds a few items
briefly before the information is stored or forgotten
• Rehearsal -✓✓ANSWER: repeating something to keep form forgetting it
• Long term memory -✓✓ANSWER: a type of storage that holds information for
hours, days, weeks, or years
• Higher mental processes -✓✓ANSWER: the complex cognitive functions, such as
thinking, problem-solving, and long-term remembering considered in the study of
cognitive psychology
, • Episodic memory -✓✓ANSWER: events in life (what you did last week)
• Semantic memory -✓✓ANSWER: facts (capitals of states)
• Procedural memory -✓✓ANSWER: physical action (how to ride a bike)
• Tulving -✓✓ANSWER: believed long term memory can be divided into 3
subcategories : sematic, episodic, procedural memories
• Why did the fMRI take place of the PET? -✓✓ANSWER: it didnt involve
radioactive tracers and produced a higher resolution image
• Palmer -✓✓ANSWER: how our knowledge about the enviornment can influence
our perception. kitchen and bread experiment
• Encoding -✓✓ANSWER: the processing of information into the memory system -
happening when you learn it
• Retrieval -✓✓ANSWER: what is happening when you are remembering the
material - pulling out of memory storage
• Biological Milestones -✓✓ANSWER: puberty
• Social milestones -✓✓ANSWER: such as the age when children begin formal
schooling; not universal
| UPDATED 2026 | COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE
• Donder -✓✓ANSWER: Reaction time - takes 1/10th of a second to make a
decision
• Wundt -✓✓ANSWER: structuraism, used analytic introspection
• Ebbinghaus -✓✓ANSWER: nature of forgetting and memory, used savings
technique
• James -✓✓ANSWER: observation of mind
• Watson -✓✓ANSWER: little Albert experiment, making him afraid of furry white
things; conditioned phobias; applied CC to advertising
• Tolman -✓✓ANSWER: cognition; studied rats and discovered the "cognitive
map" in rats and humans
• Cherry's experiment -✓✓ANSWER: Study demonstrating selective auditory
attention.
• Neisser -✓✓ANSWER: father of cognitive psychology, published cogntiive
pyschology
,• Broadbent -✓✓ANSWER: proposed the first flow diagram of the mind, what
happens in the mind when directing attention to one stimulus in the environment
• Artificial intelligence -✓✓ANSWER: idea of john mccarthy's, the ability of a
computer to perform tasks usually associated with human intelligence
• Simon and Newell -✓✓ANSWER: created McCarthy's idea of AI and was able to
create proofs of math theorems that involve principles of logic
• Atkinson and Shiffron's model -✓✓ANSWER: model of memory
• Sensory memory -✓✓ANSWER: holds incoming information for a fraction of a
second and then passes most of this information to short term memory
• Short term memory -✓✓ANSWER: activated memory that holds a few items
briefly before the information is stored or forgotten
• Rehearsal -✓✓ANSWER: repeating something to keep form forgetting it
• Long term memory -✓✓ANSWER: a type of storage that holds information for
hours, days, weeks, or years
• Higher mental processes -✓✓ANSWER: the complex cognitive functions, such as
thinking, problem-solving, and long-term remembering considered in the study of
cognitive psychology
, • Episodic memory -✓✓ANSWER: events in life (what you did last week)
• Semantic memory -✓✓ANSWER: facts (capitals of states)
• Procedural memory -✓✓ANSWER: physical action (how to ride a bike)
• Tulving -✓✓ANSWER: believed long term memory can be divided into 3
subcategories : sematic, episodic, procedural memories
• Why did the fMRI take place of the PET? -✓✓ANSWER: it didnt involve
radioactive tracers and produced a higher resolution image
• Palmer -✓✓ANSWER: how our knowledge about the enviornment can influence
our perception. kitchen and bread experiment
• Encoding -✓✓ANSWER: the processing of information into the memory system -
happening when you learn it
• Retrieval -✓✓ANSWER: what is happening when you are remembering the
material - pulling out of memory storage
• Biological Milestones -✓✓ANSWER: puberty
• Social milestones -✓✓ANSWER: such as the age when children begin formal
schooling; not universal
