WGU D570 COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY OA LATEST UPDATED
2025-2026 FINAL EXAM WITH COMPLETE DETAILED
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS RATED A+
GRADE
What is measured by the paper folding test?
ANSWER-Spatial Imagery
What is mental imagery?
ANSWER-The ability to recreate sensory information without physical stimuli
What is a component of psychosocial development?
ANSWER-Personality
A child reads the following incorrect sentence: "The car was traveling down the hills were
beautiful." Which cognitive process illustrates casual inference?
ANSWER-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?
ANSWER-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?
ANSWER-Frontal Cortex
What is the the electrical impulse fired down the axon of a neuron?
ANSWER-Action Potential
Which part of a neuron transports an electrical signal?
ANSWER-Axon
Which types of tasks have revealed cognitive deficits in people with a substance abuse
disorder?
ANSWER-Working Memory Tests
Which example shows how sensory memory results in the persistence of vision when watching
fireworks?
ANSWER-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?
ANSWER-Numbers are held in short-term memory and manipulations are conducted on the
numbers in working memory when solving the math problem.
Which scenario exemplifies how the articulatory rehearsal process contributes to a student's
short-term memory for course lecture material, according to Baddeley's model?
ANSWER-The student repeats silently what their instructor has said before writing it down.
A person is trying to recall the names of a set of seven actors whose pictures were briefly
presented upside down. What explains how the episodic buffer enhances working memory in
this scenario?
ANSWER-The episodic buffer connects with long-term memory of the actors' faces and names,
bringing content into working memory.
How does activity-silent working memory help performance on mental rotation problems?
ANSWER-Strengthening of connections between neurons helps performance on mental rotation
problems
How is the primacy effect related to attention for a set of words presented sequentially?
ANSWER-The first word presented receives the persons full attention.
, Which example shows Westmacott and Moscovitch's concept of autobiographically significant
semantic memories?
ANSWER-Person recalls the name of the actor that they saw in the airport years ago.
A person is studying a list of types of fish for a wildlife test that will occur in one week. Which
example illustrates the combined long-term memory encoding strategies of visual imagery and
organization?
ANSWER-The person imagines each fish on a tree structure corresponding to categories of fish
types.
A person is studying a list of names of pastries for their new job at a bakery. Which example
shows the interaction between the deep processing strategies of generation and self-reference?
ANSWER-The person creates flashcards for the names of the pastries, pairing each with an
estimate of how appetizing the pastry appears.
A person surprises themself in recalling the name of an artist most have not heard of. Which
process occurs when the person tries to remember how they learned that fact?
ANSWER-Source monitoring
Researchers Robert Nash and Kimberley Wade ran an experiment in which participants played a
gambling game on a computer and were later shown a modified video of themselves cheating.
What did this experiment reveal about false confessions?
ANSWER-Participants confessed to cheating after being shown the modified video, even though
they did not recall cheating indicating the power of suggestive questioning and tactics
2025-2026 FINAL EXAM WITH COMPLETE DETAILED
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS RATED A+
GRADE
What is measured by the paper folding test?
ANSWER-Spatial Imagery
What is mental imagery?
ANSWER-The ability to recreate sensory information without physical stimuli
What is a component of psychosocial development?
ANSWER-Personality
A child reads the following incorrect sentence: "The car was traveling down the hills were
beautiful." Which cognitive process illustrates casual inference?
ANSWER-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?
ANSWER-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?
ANSWER-Frontal Cortex
What is the the electrical impulse fired down the axon of a neuron?
ANSWER-Action Potential
Which part of a neuron transports an electrical signal?
ANSWER-Axon
Which types of tasks have revealed cognitive deficits in people with a substance abuse
disorder?
ANSWER-Working Memory Tests
Which example shows how sensory memory results in the persistence of vision when watching
fireworks?
ANSWER-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?
ANSWER-Numbers are held in short-term memory and manipulations are conducted on the
numbers in working memory when solving the math problem.
Which scenario exemplifies how the articulatory rehearsal process contributes to a student's
short-term memory for course lecture material, according to Baddeley's model?
ANSWER-The student repeats silently what their instructor has said before writing it down.
A person is trying to recall the names of a set of seven actors whose pictures were briefly
presented upside down. What explains how the episodic buffer enhances working memory in
this scenario?
ANSWER-The episodic buffer connects with long-term memory of the actors' faces and names,
bringing content into working memory.
How does activity-silent working memory help performance on mental rotation problems?
ANSWER-Strengthening of connections between neurons helps performance on mental rotation
problems
How is the primacy effect related to attention for a set of words presented sequentially?
ANSWER-The first word presented receives the persons full attention.
, Which example shows Westmacott and Moscovitch's concept of autobiographically significant
semantic memories?
ANSWER-Person recalls the name of the actor that they saw in the airport years ago.
A person is studying a list of types of fish for a wildlife test that will occur in one week. Which
example illustrates the combined long-term memory encoding strategies of visual imagery and
organization?
ANSWER-The person imagines each fish on a tree structure corresponding to categories of fish
types.
A person is studying a list of names of pastries for their new job at a bakery. Which example
shows the interaction between the deep processing strategies of generation and self-reference?
ANSWER-The person creates flashcards for the names of the pastries, pairing each with an
estimate of how appetizing the pastry appears.
A person surprises themself in recalling the name of an artist most have not heard of. Which
process occurs when the person tries to remember how they learned that fact?
ANSWER-Source monitoring
Researchers Robert Nash and Kimberley Wade ran an experiment in which participants played a
gambling game on a computer and were later shown a modified video of themselves cheating.
What did this experiment reveal about false confessions?
ANSWER-Participants confessed to cheating after being shown the modified video, even though
they did not recall cheating indicating the power of suggestive questioning and tactics
