WGU D570 COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
OA EXAM 460 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 2025
What is measured by the paper folding test?
Spatial Imagery
What is mental imagery?
The ability to recreate sensory information without physical
stimuli
What is a component of psychosocial development?
Personality
A child reads the following incorrect sentence: "The car was
,traveling down the hills were beautiful." Which cognitive process
illustrates casual inference?
The child infers that the hills being beautiful are caused by the
motion of the moving car
Which conversation between two students demonstrates the
process of entrainment?
The students both start speaking loudly and gesturing.
Which cortex of the frontal lobe is activated when someone
determines whether another person appears to be physically
attractive?
Frontal Cortex
What is the the electrical impulse fired down the axon of a neuron?
Action Potential
, Which part of a neuron transports an electrical signal?
Axon
Which types of tasks have revealed cognitive deficits in people
with a substance abuse disorder?
Working Memory Tests
Which example shows how sensory memory results in the
persistence of vision when watching fireworks?
Fireworks appear as falling trails of light due to iconic memories
lasting fractions of a second.
Which explanation shows how multiple forms of memory would
contribute to effective execution of a mental math problem?
Numbers are held in short-term memory and manipulations are
conducted on the numbers in working memory when solving the
math problem.
OA EXAM 460 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 2025
What is measured by the paper folding test?
Spatial Imagery
What is mental imagery?
The ability to recreate sensory information without physical
stimuli
What is a component of psychosocial development?
Personality
A child reads the following incorrect sentence: "The car was
,traveling down the hills were beautiful." Which cognitive process
illustrates casual inference?
The child infers that the hills being beautiful are caused by the
motion of the moving car
Which conversation between two students demonstrates the
process of entrainment?
The students both start speaking loudly and gesturing.
Which cortex of the frontal lobe is activated when someone
determines whether another person appears to be physically
attractive?
Frontal Cortex
What is the the electrical impulse fired down the axon of a neuron?
Action Potential
, Which part of a neuron transports an electrical signal?
Axon
Which types of tasks have revealed cognitive deficits in people
with a substance abuse disorder?
Working Memory Tests
Which example shows how sensory memory results in the
persistence of vision when watching fireworks?
Fireworks appear as falling trails of light due to iconic memories
lasting fractions of a second.
Which explanation shows how multiple forms of memory would
contribute to effective execution of a mental math problem?
Numbers are held in short-term memory and manipulations are
conducted on the numbers in working memory when solving the
math problem.
