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WGU D570 EXAM 2025 | COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
EXAM | QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS |
GRADED A+ | LATEST VERSION | VERIFIED ANSWERS
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
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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
, 3
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
WGU D570 EXAM 2025 | COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
EXAM | QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS |
GRADED A+ | LATEST VERSION | VERIFIED ANSWERS
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
, 2
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
, 3
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
