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WGU D570 Final Exam Review (Latest 2025/ 2026 Update) Cognitive Psychology | Qs & As| Grade A| 100% Correct (Verified Answers) Q: A student is in a study lounge watching a video for a class and can fuly focus on the video despite people chatting in the background and a clock loudly ticking. How does the student process different stimuli in order to focus on the desired task? Answer: The student filters stimuli through the cocktail party effect. Q: A person plans to attend a reception later that night and needs to select an out for the event. Which statement demonstrates an automatic decision for the person? Answer: They quickly decide on an outfit they typically wear to events without being consciously aware that they selected it. Q: How did strayer and johnston's research influence the study of attention? Answer: By demonstrating that both attention and response time are negatively impacted by talking on a mobile device while driving Q: A researcher presents a video of a street intersection and asks that participants count how many people walked through the intersection. In the video, a limousine passes through the intersection. Which example would demonstrated in-attentional blindness? Answer: Some participants do not notice the limousine because they are focused on the people Q: A hiker walks along a trail looking for a spot for a picture when an unseen snake hisses from the nearby woods. Which statement is true regarding the hiker's ability to notice the snake? Answer: They will notice the snake's hiss if they recognize it as a danger signal Q: Why is binding important in attention? Answer: Binding makes it possible to perceive a whole object rather than a collection of it parts Q: A traveler can attend to what the hotel's concierge says about lunch options based on how loudly they are speaking, while disregarding other verbal communications happening in the noisy lobby. How is Broadbent's model of attention used in this scenario? Answer: The traveler uses filtering to focus on the lunch options over the lobby noise Q: A person went on a trip to the ocean. Which example shows the concept of autobiographical memory as an integration of episodic and semantic memories for this scenario? Answer: The person remembers jumping in the waves and the outdoor temperature that day. Q: How does the generation effect relate to attention in a paired-associate task? Answer: Having participants engage in word completion focused attention longer on each word pair, compared to shallow word processing. Q: Which stimuli are remembered best in a long-term memory task according to Nairne's evolutionary theory of encoding? Answer: Stimuli judged as useful for providing protection Q: Which example shows the difference between the standard model of consolidation and the multiple trace model of consolidation regarding encoding episodic memories about a trip to a lake? Answer: The standard model of consolidation argues that the hippocampus is involved only in the early development of lake trip memories, but the multiple trace model argues that the hippocampus remains active in long-term trip memories. Q: What has research determined about the association between neutral language r profanity and enhanced memory? Answer: arousing words that reference profanity or explicit content are more memorable than neutral words Q: Which example demonstrates the application of Bartlett's repeated reproduction when a student is tested on course content? Answer: A student discusses the content in their study guide four times, then five times, daily for two days before a test to concisely recall the information. Q: Which example demonstrates the Proust effect? Answer: A person smells freshly chopped wood and recalls a cabin vacation with their family. Q: which significant findings did the "war of ghosts" experiment demonstrate regarding the effect of repeated reproduction on recall? Answer: Increased time passage led to greater inaccuracies and omissions in recall of the stories based on cultural context Q: Which factor affects the accuracy and reliability of eyewitness testimony? Answer: Eyewitnesses may not see all aspects of a given incident Q: What was the source of the imagery debate? Answer: Whether imagery is spatial or propositional Q: Which aspect of lifespan development examines creativity? Answer: cognitive Q: What is an example of lexical priming? Answer:

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