WGU D570 COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY OA EXAM COMPLETE
ACTUAL EXAM REAL QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS LATEST 2025
What is measured by the paper folding test? - correct answer -Spatial Imagery
What is mental imagery? - correct answer -The ability to recreate sensory information without physical
stimuli
What is a component of psychosocial development? - correct answer -Personality
A child reads the following incorrect sentence: "The car was traveling down the hills were beautiful."
Which cognitive process illustrates casual inference? - correct 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? - correct 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? - correct answer -Frontal Cortex
What is the the electrical impulse fired down the axon of a neuron? - correct answer -Action Potential
,Which part of a neuron transports an electrical signal? - correct answer -Axon
Which types of tasks have revealed cognitive deficits in people with a substance abuse disorder? -
correct answer -Working Memory Tests
Which example shows how sensory memory results in the persistence of vision when watching
fireworks? - correct 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? - correct answer -Numbers are held in short-term memory and manipulations
are conducted on the numbers in working memory when solving the math problem.
What is the Law of Large Numbers
The idea that the more trials or data you have, the closer the result will be to the true average.
Example: Flipping a coin many times will give you roughly 50% heads, and 50% tails.
Explain Confirmation Bias
The tendency to look for or focus on information that supports what we already believe.
Example: If you think a certain food is unhealthy, you might pay more attention to news stories that say
it's bad for you.
Explain Representative Heuristic
Making a judgment based on how similar something is to a typical case, even if it's not the best
judgment.
Example: Assuming someone is a librarian because they are quiet and like reading, even though there
are many other possible jobs.
Explain the base-rate fallacy.
Base Rate: The general frequency or probability of something happening, often ignored when focusing
on specific details.
,Example: There is a 90% chance the person you are talking to is from New York, but you ignore that and
guess where they are from based on their accent, which is misleading.
What is the conjunction rule?
The principle that the probability of two events happening together is always lower than the probability
of one event happening alone
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? - correct 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? -
correct 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? - correct
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? - correct
answer -The first word presented receives the persons full attention.
Which example shows Westmacott and Moscovitch's concept of autobiographically significant semantic
memories? - correct 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? -
, correct 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? - correct 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? - correct 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? - correct 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
Which example reflects the impact of the self-image hypothesis? - correct answer -A person remembers
graduating from law school
What is a primary concern of behaviorism according to John Watson? - correct answer -Identifying the
relationship between environmental stimuli and behavior
Which concept supports the paired-associate learning results? - correct answer -Conceptual peg
hypothesis
Which component of Broadbent's flow diagram of the mind blocks unattended messages? - correct
answer -Filter
Which evidence disproves Aristotle's assertion that "thought is impossible without an image"? - correct
answer -People who cannot visualize images are still capable of thinking
ACTUAL EXAM REAL QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS LATEST 2025
What is measured by the paper folding test? - correct answer -Spatial Imagery
What is mental imagery? - correct answer -The ability to recreate sensory information without physical
stimuli
What is a component of psychosocial development? - correct answer -Personality
A child reads the following incorrect sentence: "The car was traveling down the hills were beautiful."
Which cognitive process illustrates casual inference? - correct 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? - correct 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? - correct answer -Frontal Cortex
What is the the electrical impulse fired down the axon of a neuron? - correct answer -Action Potential
,Which part of a neuron transports an electrical signal? - correct answer -Axon
Which types of tasks have revealed cognitive deficits in people with a substance abuse disorder? -
correct answer -Working Memory Tests
Which example shows how sensory memory results in the persistence of vision when watching
fireworks? - correct 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? - correct answer -Numbers are held in short-term memory and manipulations
are conducted on the numbers in working memory when solving the math problem.
What is the Law of Large Numbers
The idea that the more trials or data you have, the closer the result will be to the true average.
Example: Flipping a coin many times will give you roughly 50% heads, and 50% tails.
Explain Confirmation Bias
The tendency to look for or focus on information that supports what we already believe.
Example: If you think a certain food is unhealthy, you might pay more attention to news stories that say
it's bad for you.
Explain Representative Heuristic
Making a judgment based on how similar something is to a typical case, even if it's not the best
judgment.
Example: Assuming someone is a librarian because they are quiet and like reading, even though there
are many other possible jobs.
Explain the base-rate fallacy.
Base Rate: The general frequency or probability of something happening, often ignored when focusing
on specific details.
,Example: There is a 90% chance the person you are talking to is from New York, but you ignore that and
guess where they are from based on their accent, which is misleading.
What is the conjunction rule?
The principle that the probability of two events happening together is always lower than the probability
of one event happening alone
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? - correct 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? -
correct 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? - correct
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? - correct
answer -The first word presented receives the persons full attention.
Which example shows Westmacott and Moscovitch's concept of autobiographically significant semantic
memories? - correct 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? -
, correct 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? - correct 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? - correct 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? - correct 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
Which example reflects the impact of the self-image hypothesis? - correct answer -A person remembers
graduating from law school
What is a primary concern of behaviorism according to John Watson? - correct answer -Identifying the
relationship between environmental stimuli and behavior
Which concept supports the paired-associate learning results? - correct answer -Conceptual peg
hypothesis
Which component of Broadbent's flow diagram of the mind blocks unattended messages? - correct
answer -Filter
Which evidence disproves Aristotle's assertion that "thought is impossible without an image"? - correct
answer -People who cannot visualize images are still capable of thinking
