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WGU D570 Cognitive Psychology Pre-assessment
and Assessment Practice Questions and Correct
Answers Plus Study Guide/ D570 Exam Practice
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Syntactic coordination - ...ANSWER...✓✓ It helps people
coordinate their grammatical statements during
conversation.
Constraint-based approach - ...ANSWER...✓✓ By parsing
sentences and not only using syntactic influences.
Spatial representations - ...ANSWER...✓✓ Held in a
specific location.
Propositional representations - ...ANSWER...✓✓ Formed
as an equation or statement.
Visual cortex organization - ...ANSWER...✓✓ As a
topographic map.
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Pegword technique - ...ANSWER...✓✓ By placing objects
with a concrete word.
Wundt's theoretical approach - ...ANSWER...✓✓
Structuralism.
Second stage of Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory -
...ANSWER...✓✓ Preoperational.
Theory developed by Piaget - ...ANSWER...✓✓ Four Stage
Theory.
Fluid intelligence - ...ANSWER...✓✓ Defined as
information processing abilities.
Aspect of lifespan development examining language -
...ANSWER...✓✓ Cognitive.
Subdomain of cognition describing solving problems of
information overload - ...ANSWER...✓✓ Attention.
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Specialized area of the temporal lobe for identifying
familiar faces - ...ANSWER...✓✓ Fusiform face area.
Example of localization of function in the brain -
...ANSWER...✓✓ An area in the temporal lobe is
responsible for recognizing faces.
Lobe integrating sensory information to guide behavior -
...ANSWER...✓✓ Frontal.
Neurons responding to specific visual properties -
...ANSWER...✓✓ Feature detectors.
Lobe of the brain associated with facial recognition,
object recognition, and language acquisition -
...ANSWER...✓✓ Temporal.
Lexicon - ...ANSWER...✓✓ Refers to a person's
knowledge of what words mean, how they sound, and
how they are used in relation to other words.
WGU D570 Cognitive Psychology Pre-assessment
and Assessment Practice Questions and Correct
Answers Plus Study Guide/ D570 Exam Practice
Guide Latest
Syntactic coordination - ...ANSWER...✓✓ It helps people
coordinate their grammatical statements during
conversation.
Constraint-based approach - ...ANSWER...✓✓ By parsing
sentences and not only using syntactic influences.
Spatial representations - ...ANSWER...✓✓ Held in a
specific location.
Propositional representations - ...ANSWER...✓✓ Formed
as an equation or statement.
Visual cortex organization - ...ANSWER...✓✓ As a
topographic map.
,2|Page
Pegword technique - ...ANSWER...✓✓ By placing objects
with a concrete word.
Wundt's theoretical approach - ...ANSWER...✓✓
Structuralism.
Second stage of Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory -
...ANSWER...✓✓ Preoperational.
Theory developed by Piaget - ...ANSWER...✓✓ Four Stage
Theory.
Fluid intelligence - ...ANSWER...✓✓ Defined as
information processing abilities.
Aspect of lifespan development examining language -
...ANSWER...✓✓ Cognitive.
Subdomain of cognition describing solving problems of
information overload - ...ANSWER...✓✓ Attention.
, 3|Page
Specialized area of the temporal lobe for identifying
familiar faces - ...ANSWER...✓✓ Fusiform face area.
Example of localization of function in the brain -
...ANSWER...✓✓ An area in the temporal lobe is
responsible for recognizing faces.
Lobe integrating sensory information to guide behavior -
...ANSWER...✓✓ Frontal.
Neurons responding to specific visual properties -
...ANSWER...✓✓ Feature detectors.
Lobe of the brain associated with facial recognition,
object recognition, and language acquisition -
...ANSWER...✓✓ Temporal.
Lexicon - ...ANSWER...✓✓ Refers to a person's
knowledge of what words mean, how they sound, and
how they are used in relation to other words.
