WGU D570 COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
EXAMINATION TEST VERIFIED QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
●● 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.
●● 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 intelligence that refers to information processing
abilities.
●● Lifespan development aspect examining language
Answer: Cognitive.
●● Cognition subdomain for solving problems of information overload
Answer: Attention.
●● Specialized area of the temporal lobe for identifying someone in a
crowded room
Answer: Fusiform face area.
●● 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.
●● Given-new contract
Answer: Information that the listener already knows.
●● Lexical ambiguity
Answer: The word 'light' has more than one meaning.
EXAMINATION TEST VERIFIED QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
●● 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.
●● 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 intelligence that refers to information processing
abilities.
●● Lifespan development aspect examining language
Answer: Cognitive.
●● Cognition subdomain for solving problems of information overload
Answer: Attention.
●● Specialized area of the temporal lobe for identifying someone in a
crowded room
Answer: Fusiform face area.
●● 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.
●● Given-new contract
Answer: Information that the listener already knows.
●● Lexical ambiguity
Answer: The word 'light' has more than one meaning.
