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WGU D570 Pre- Assessment (Latest 2025/ 2026 Update) Cognitive Psychology | Qs & As| Grade A| 100% Correct (Verified Answers) Q: Watson's Little Albert Experiment Answer: -Showed certain behaviors can be socially taught and modeled Q: Operant conditioning Answer: Focuses on how behavior is strengthened by the presence of positive reinforcement. Q: Tolman's cognitive map Answer: Mental representation which serves an individual to acquire, code, store, recall, and decode information about the relative locations in their everyday or metaphorical spatial environment Q: Skinner on Language Acquisition Answer: In Verbal Behavior Skinner asserted that children learn language through operant conditioning. Child sees a dog, says "Doggie!" Parents say, "Right, that's a doggie!" Child's verbal behavior reinforced by parents. Q: Chomsky on Language Acquisition Answer: Chomsky attacked Skinner's "Verbal Behavior" Said humans are born with the knowledge of how to acquire and use language. Chomsky's pointed out that children say things that they've never heard before or been reinforced for before like, "I hitted the ball" or "I sawed the kitty" or "I hate you Mommy!" Chomsky believed that language emerges through an inborn biological program. Q: Information-Processing Approach Answer: Q: Cognitive neuroscience Answer: The study of the physiological basis of cognition. Physiological means the internal workings of the body. Q: Basic structure of a neuron

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