WGU D570 Cognitive Psychology EXAM | GRADED A+ |
VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS | COMPREHENSIVE
REVIEW
• behaviorism -✓✓ANSWER: Studying the relationship between environmental
stimuli and observable behavior.
• paper folding test -✓✓ANSWER: Measures spatial imagery—your ability to
visualize how shapes look when folded.
• conceptual peg hypothesis -✓✓ANSWER: The idea that concrete words create
mental images that help 'anchor' new associations for better memory.
• filter in Broadbent's attention model -✓✓ANSWER: It blocks unattended
information so only important stimuli are processed further.
• mental imagery -✓✓ANSWER: Recreating sensory experiences in your mind
without actual input.
• disproving Aristotle's idea about thought -✓✓ANSWER: People who can't
visualize images can still think logically and abstractly.
• Concrete Operational stage -✓✓ANSWER: Includes understanding math and
logic (ages 7-11).
, • centration -✓✓ANSWER: Focusing on one aspect of a situation and ignoring
others (common in young children).
• Preoperational Stage -✓✓ANSWER: Allows use of words and images to
represent objects.
• crystallized intelligence -✓✓ANSWER: Knowledge and skills built from
experience and education over time.
• key component of psychosocial development -✓✓ANSWER: Personality—how
individuals grow and develop a sense of self.
• schemas -✓✓ANSWER: Mental frameworks we use to organize and interpret
information.
• brain region linked to judging physical attraction -✓✓ANSWER: Lower frontal
cortex.
• action potential -✓✓ANSWER: An electrical impulse that travels down a
neuron's axon.
• axon -✓✓ANSWER: The part of a neuron that carries electrical signals.
• garden path model of sentence parsing -✓✓ANSWER: The brain initially
misinterprets a sentence structure and then has to reanalyze it.
VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS | COMPREHENSIVE
REVIEW
• behaviorism -✓✓ANSWER: Studying the relationship between environmental
stimuli and observable behavior.
• paper folding test -✓✓ANSWER: Measures spatial imagery—your ability to
visualize how shapes look when folded.
• conceptual peg hypothesis -✓✓ANSWER: The idea that concrete words create
mental images that help 'anchor' new associations for better memory.
• filter in Broadbent's attention model -✓✓ANSWER: It blocks unattended
information so only important stimuli are processed further.
• mental imagery -✓✓ANSWER: Recreating sensory experiences in your mind
without actual input.
• disproving Aristotle's idea about thought -✓✓ANSWER: People who can't
visualize images can still think logically and abstractly.
• Concrete Operational stage -✓✓ANSWER: Includes understanding math and
logic (ages 7-11).
, • centration -✓✓ANSWER: Focusing on one aspect of a situation and ignoring
others (common in young children).
• Preoperational Stage -✓✓ANSWER: Allows use of words and images to
represent objects.
• crystallized intelligence -✓✓ANSWER: Knowledge and skills built from
experience and education over time.
• key component of psychosocial development -✓✓ANSWER: Personality—how
individuals grow and develop a sense of self.
• schemas -✓✓ANSWER: Mental frameworks we use to organize and interpret
information.
• brain region linked to judging physical attraction -✓✓ANSWER: Lower frontal
cortex.
• action potential -✓✓ANSWER: An electrical impulse that travels down a
neuron's axon.
• axon -✓✓ANSWER: The part of a neuron that carries electrical signals.
• garden path model of sentence parsing -✓✓ANSWER: The brain initially
misinterprets a sentence structure and then has to reanalyze it.
