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WGU D570 COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY OA AND PRE
ASSESSMENT EXAM|| ACCURATE AND FREQUENTLY
ASKED QUESTIONS AND 100% CORRECT ANSWERS||
LATEST AND COMPLETE UPDATE WITH VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+|| SURE PASS!!
What is measured by the paper folding test? - ANSWER:Spatial Imagery
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What is mental imagery? - ANSWER:The ability to recreate sensory information
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without physical stimuli
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What is a component of psychosocial development? - ANSWER:Personality
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A child reads the following incorrect sentence: "The car was traveling down the
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hills were beautiful." Which cognitive process illustrates casual inference? -
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ANSWER:The child infers that the hills being beautiful are caused by the motion
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of the moving car
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Which conversation between two students demonstrates the process of
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entrainment? - ANSWER:The students both start speaking loudly and gesturing.
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Which cortex of the frontal lobe is activated when someone determines whether
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another person appears to be physically attractive? - ANSWER:Frontal Cortex
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What is the the electrical impulse fired down the axon of a neuron? -
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ANSWER:Action Potential
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Which part of a neuron transports an electrical signal? - ANSWER:Axon
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,2|P age
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Which types of tasks have revealed cognitive deficits in people with a substance
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abuse disorder? - ANSWER:Working Memory Tests
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Which example shows how sensory memory results in the persistence of vision
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when watching fireworks? - ANSWER:Fireworks appear as falling trails of light
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due to iconic memories lasting fractions of a second.
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Which explanation shows how multiple forms of memory would contribute to
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effective execution of a mental math problem? - ANSWER:Numbers are held in
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short-term memory and manipulations are conducted on the numbers in working
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memory when solving the math problem.
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Which scenario exemplifies how the articulatory rehearsal process contributes to a
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student's short-term memory for course lecture material, according to Baddeley's
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model? - ANSWER:The student repeats silently what their instructor has said
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before writing it down.
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A person is trying to recall the names of a set of seven actors whose pictures were
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briefly presented upside down. What explains how the episodic buffer enhances
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working memory in this scenario? - ANSWER:The episodic buffer connects with
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long-term memory of the actors' faces and names, bringing content into working
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memory.
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How does activity-silent working memory help performance on mental rotation
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problems? - ANSWER:Strengthening of connections between neurons helps
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performance on mental rotation problems
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How is the primacy effect related to attention for a set of words presented
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sequentially? - ANSWER:The first word presented receives the persons full
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attention.
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Which example shows Westmacott and Moscovitch's concept of
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autobiographically significant semantic memories? - ANSWER:Person recalls the
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name of the actor that they saw in the airport years ago.
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A person is studying a list of types of fish for a wildlife test that will occur in one
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week. Which example illustrates the combined long-term memory encoding
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strategies of visual imagery and organization? - ANSWER:The person imagines
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each fish on a tree structure corresponding to categories of fish types.
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A person is studying a list of names of pastries for their new job at a bakery.
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Which example shows the interaction between the deep processing strategies of
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generation and self-reference? - ANSWER:The person creates flashcards for the
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names of the pastries, pairing each with an estimate of how appetizing the pastry
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appears.
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A person surprises themself in recalling the name of an artist most have not heard
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of. Which process occurs when the person tries to remember how they learned that
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fact? - ANSWER:Source monitoring
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Researchers Robert Nash and Kimberley Wade ran an experiment in which
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participants played a gambling game on a computer and were later shown a
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modified video of themselves cheating. What did this experiment reveal about
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false confessions? - ANSWER:Participants confessed to cheating after being
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shown the modified video, even though they did not recall cheating indicating the
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power of suggestive questioning and tactics
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Which example reflects the impact of the self-image hypothesis? - ANSWER:A
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person remembers graduating from law school
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What is a primary concern of behaviorism according to John Watson? -
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ANSWER:Identifying the relationship between environmental stimuli and
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behavior
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Which concept supports the paired-associate learning results? -
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ANSWER:Conceptual peg hypothesis
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Which component of Broadbent's flow diagram of the mind blocks unattended
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messages? - ANSWER:Filter
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Which evidence disproves Aristotle's assertion that "thought is impossible without
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an image"? - ANSWER:People who cannot visualize images are still capable of
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thinking
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Which stage of Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory does an individual begin to
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understand mathematical reasoning? - ANSWER:Concrete Operational
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Which term describes a child's tendency to fixate on just one aspect of a problem
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or object according to Piaget? - ANSWER:Centration
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Which stage in Piaget's theory of cognitive development is represented by a child's
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ability to mentally represent objects and events with words and images? -
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ANSWER:Preoperational
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Which kind of intelligence reflects abilities drawn from experience? -
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ANSWER:Crystalized
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Which mental framework is used in learning according to Piaget? -
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ANSWER:Schemas
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