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WGU D570 Cognitive Psychology
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1. What is measured by the paper folding test? Spatial Imagery

2. What is mental imagery? The ability to recreate sensory information
without physical stimuli

3. What is a component of psychosocial devel- Personality
opment?

4. A child reads the following incorrect sen- The child infers that the hills being beau-
tence: "The car was traveling down the hills tiful are caused by the motion of the mov-
were beautiful." Which cognitive process il- ing car
lustrates casual inference?

5. Which conversation between two students The students both start speaking loudly
demonstrates the process of entrainment? and gesturing.

6. Which cortex of the frontal lobe is activated Frontal Cortex
when someone determines whether anoth-
er person appears to be physically attrac-
tive?

7. What is the the electrical impulse fired down Action Potential
the axon of a neuron?

8. Which part of a neuron transports an elec- Axon
trical signal?

9. Which types of tasks have revealed cog- Working Memory Tests
nitive deficits in people with a substance
abuse disorder?

10. Which example shows how sensory memo- Fireworks appear as falling trails of light
ry results in the persistence of vision when due to iconic memories lasting fractions
watching fireworks? of a second.


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11. Which explanation shows how multiple Numbers are held in short-term memory
forms of memory would contribute to effec- and manipulations are conducted on the
tive execution of a mental math problem? numbers in working memory when solv-
ing the math problem.

12. Which scenario exemplifies how the artic- The student repeats silently what their in-
ulatory rehearsal process contributes to a structor has said before writing it down.
student's short-term memory for course
lecture material, according to Baddeley's
model?

13. A person is trying to recall the names of The episodic buffer connects with
a set of seven actors whose pictures were long-term memory of the actors' faces
briefly presented upside down. What ex- and names, bringing content into working
plains how the episodic buffer enhances memory.
working memory in this scenario?

14. How does activity-silent working memory Strengthening of connections between
help performance on mental rotation prob- neurons helps performance on mental ro-
lems? tation problems

15. How is the primacy effect related to atten- The first word presented receives the per-
tion for a set of words presented sequen- sons full attention.
tially?

16. Which example shows Westmacott and Person recalls the name of the actor that
Moscovitch's concept of autobiographically they saw in the airport years ago.
significant semantic memories?

17. A person is studying a list of types of fish The person imagines each fish on a tree
for a wildlife test that will occur in one structure corresponding to categories of
week. Which example illustrates the com- fish types.



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bined long-term memory encoding strate-
gies of visual imagery and organization?

18. A person is studying a list of names of pas- The person creates flashcards for the
tries for their new job at a bakery. Which names of the pastries, pairing each with
example shows the interaction between the an estimate of how appetizing the pastry
deep processing strategies of generation appears.
and self-reference?

19. A person surprises themself in recalling the Source monitoring
name of an artist most have not heard of.
Which process occurs when the person tries
to remember how they learned that fact?

20. Researchers Robert Nash and Kimberley Participants confessed to cheating after
Wade ran an experiment in which partici- being shown the modified video, even
pants played a gambling game on a com- though they did not recall cheating indi-
puter and were later shown a modified cating the power of suggestive question-
video of themselves cheating. What did this ing and tactics
experiment reveal about false confessions?

21. Which example reflects the impact of the A person remembers graduating from law
self-image hypothesis? school

22. What is a primary concern of behaviorism Identifying the relationship between en-
according to John Watson? vironmental stimuli and behavior

23. Which concept supports the paired-associ- Conceptual peg hypothesis
ate learning results?

24. Which component of Broadbent's flow dia- Filter
gram of the mind blocks unattended mes-
sages?



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25. Which evidence disproves Aristotle's asser- People who cannot visualize images are
tion that "thought is impossible without an still capable of thinking
image"?

26. Which stage of Piaget's Cognitive Develop- Concrete Operational
ment Theory does an individual begin to
understand mathematical reasoning?

27. Which term describes a child's tendency to Centration
fixate on just one aspect of a problem or
object according to Piaget?

28. Which stage in Piaget's theory of cogni- Preoperational
tive development is represented by a child's
ability to mentally represent objects and
events with words and images?

29. Which kind of intelligence reflects abilities Crystalized
drawn from experience?

30. Which mental framework is used in learning Schemas
according to Piaget?

31. A child reads the following incorrect sen- The child changes their mind from the
tence: "The car was traceling down the hills subject being the car to the hills
were beautiful." Which cognitive process il-
lustrates the garden path model of parsing?

32. A student reads these two sentences: A The student infers that the word "it" refers
dog was running. It slipped and fell. which to the dog
thought process is an example of an
anaphoric inference?

33. It aids in having an engaging discussion

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