WGU D570 COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY EXAM
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What is measured by the paper Spatial Imagery
folding test?
What is mental imagery? The ability to recreate sensory information without
physical stimuli
What is a component of Personality
psychosocial development?
A child reads the following incorrect The child infers that the hills being beautiful are
sentence: "The car was traveling caused by the motion of the moving car
down the hills were beautiful." Which
cognitive process illustrates casual
inference?
Which conversation between two The students both start speaking loudly and
students demonstrates the process gesturing.
of entrainment?
,Which cortex of the frontal lobe is Frontal Cortex
activated when someone determines
whether another person appears to
be physically attractive?
What is the the electrical impulse Action Potential
fired down the axon of a neuron?
Which part of a neuron transports an Axon
electrical signal?
Which types of tasks have revealed Working Memory Tests
cognitive deficits in people with a
substance abuse disorder?
Which example shows how sensory Fireworks appear as falling trails of light due to
memory results in the persistence of iconic memories lasting fractions of a second.
vision when watching fireworks?
Which explanation shows how Numbers are held in short-term memory and
multiple forms of memory would manipulations are conducted on the numbers in
contribute to effective execution of a working memory when solving the math problem.
mental math problem?
Which scenario exemplifies how the The student repeats silently what their instructor
articulatory rehearsal process has said before writing it down.
contributes to a student's short-term
memory for course lecture material,
according to Baddeley's model?
,A person is trying to recall the names The episodic buffer connects with long-term
of a set of seven actors whose memory of the actors' faces and names, bringing
pictures were briefly presented content into working memory.
upside down. What explains how the
episodic buffer enhances working
memory in this scenario?
How does activity-silent working Strengthening of connections between neurons
memory help performance on helps performance on mental rotation problems
mental rotation problems?
How is the primacy effect related to The first word presented receives the persons full
attention for a set of words attention.
presented sequentially?
Which example shows Westmacott Person recalls the name of the actor that they saw
and Moscovitch's concept of in the airport years ago.
autobiographically significant
semantic memories?
A person is studying a list of types of The person imagines each fish on a tree structure
fish for a wildlife test that will occur corresponding to categories of fish types.
in one week. Which example
illustrates the combined long-term
memory encoding strategies of
visual imagery and organization?
A person is studying a list of names The person creates flashcards for the names of the
of pastries for their new job at a pastries, pairing each with an estimate of how
bakery. Which example shows the appetizing the pastry appears.
interaction between the deep
processing strategies of generation
and self-reference?
, A person surprises themself in Source monitoring
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?
Researchers Robert Nash and Participants confessed to cheating after being
Kimberley Wade ran an experiment shown the modified video, even though they did
in which participants played a not recall cheating indicating the power of
gambling game on a computer and suggestive questioning and tactics
were later shown a modified video of
themselves cheating. What did this
experiment reveal about false
confessions?
Which example reflects the impact A person remembers graduating from law school
of the self-image hypothesis?
What is a primary concern of Identifying the relationship between environmental
behaviorism according to John stimuli and behavior
Watson?
Which concept supports the paired- Conceptual peg hypothesis
associate learning results?
Which component of Broadbent's Filter
flow diagram of the mind blocks
unattended messages?
Which evidence disproves Aristotle's People who cannot visualize images are still
assertion that "thought is impossible capable of thinking
without an image"?
2026| COMPLETE ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS
WITH 100% VERIFIED CORRECT ANSWERS ||
ALREADY GRADED A +
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What is measured by the paper Spatial Imagery
folding test?
What is mental imagery? The ability to recreate sensory information without
physical stimuli
What is a component of Personality
psychosocial development?
A child reads the following incorrect The child infers that the hills being beautiful are
sentence: "The car was traveling caused by the motion of the moving car
down the hills were beautiful." Which
cognitive process illustrates casual
inference?
Which conversation between two The students both start speaking loudly and
students demonstrates the process gesturing.
of entrainment?
,Which cortex of the frontal lobe is Frontal Cortex
activated when someone determines
whether another person appears to
be physically attractive?
What is the the electrical impulse Action Potential
fired down the axon of a neuron?
Which part of a neuron transports an Axon
electrical signal?
Which types of tasks have revealed Working Memory Tests
cognitive deficits in people with a
substance abuse disorder?
Which example shows how sensory Fireworks appear as falling trails of light due to
memory results in the persistence of iconic memories lasting fractions of a second.
vision when watching fireworks?
Which explanation shows how Numbers are held in short-term memory and
multiple forms of memory would manipulations are conducted on the numbers in
contribute to effective execution of a working memory when solving the math problem.
mental math problem?
Which scenario exemplifies how the The student repeats silently what their instructor
articulatory rehearsal process has said before writing it down.
contributes to a student's short-term
memory for course lecture material,
according to Baddeley's model?
,A person is trying to recall the names The episodic buffer connects with long-term
of a set of seven actors whose memory of the actors' faces and names, bringing
pictures were briefly presented content into working memory.
upside down. What explains how the
episodic buffer enhances working
memory in this scenario?
How does activity-silent working Strengthening of connections between neurons
memory help performance on helps performance on mental rotation problems
mental rotation problems?
How is the primacy effect related to The first word presented receives the persons full
attention for a set of words attention.
presented sequentially?
Which example shows Westmacott Person recalls the name of the actor that they saw
and Moscovitch's concept of in the airport years ago.
autobiographically significant
semantic memories?
A person is studying a list of types of The person imagines each fish on a tree structure
fish for a wildlife test that will occur corresponding to categories of fish types.
in one week. Which example
illustrates the combined long-term
memory encoding strategies of
visual imagery and organization?
A person is studying a list of names The person creates flashcards for the names of the
of pastries for their new job at a pastries, pairing each with an estimate of how
bakery. Which example shows the appetizing the pastry appears.
interaction between the deep
processing strategies of generation
and self-reference?
, A person surprises themself in Source monitoring
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?
Researchers Robert Nash and Participants confessed to cheating after being
Kimberley Wade ran an experiment shown the modified video, even though they did
in which participants played a not recall cheating indicating the power of
gambling game on a computer and suggestive questioning and tactics
were later shown a modified video of
themselves cheating. What did this
experiment reveal about false
confessions?
Which example reflects the impact A person remembers graduating from law school
of the self-image hypothesis?
What is a primary concern of Identifying the relationship between environmental
behaviorism according to John stimuli and behavior
Watson?
Which concept supports the paired- Conceptual peg hypothesis
associate learning results?
Which component of Broadbent's Filter
flow diagram of the mind blocks
unattended messages?
Which evidence disproves Aristotle's People who cannot visualize images are still
assertion that "thought is impossible capable of thinking
without an image"?
