WGU D570 COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY OBJECTIVE
ASSESSMENT FINAL EXAM VERSION 1 NEWEST
2025/2026 COMPLETE 200 QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY
GRADED A+||BRAND NEW VERSION!! psychologist
who studied the quantitative measurement of m
Syntactic coordination - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..It helps people coordinate their grammatical
statements during conversation.
Constraint-based approach - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..By parsing sentences and not only using
syntactic influences.
Spatial representations - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Held in a specific location.
Propositional representations - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Formed as an equation or statement.
Visual cortex organization - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..As a topographic map.
Pegword technique - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..By placing objects with a concrete word.
Wundt's theoretical approach - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Structuralism.
Second stage of Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory -
✔✔ANSW✔✔..Preoperational.
Theory developed by Piaget - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Four Stage Theory.
Fluid intelligence - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Defined as information processing abilities.
Aspect of lifespan development examining language - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Cognitive.
Subdomain of cognition describing solving problems of information overload -
✔✔ANSW✔✔..Attention.
,Specialized area of the temporal lobe for identifying familiar faces -
✔✔ANSW✔✔..Fusiform face area.
Example of localization of function in the brain - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..An area in the temporal
lobe is responsible for recognizing faces.
Lobe integrating sensory information to guide behavior - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Frontal.
Neurons responding to specific visual properties - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Feature detectors.
Lobe of the brain associated with facial recognition, object recognition, and language
acquisition - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Temporal.
Lexicon - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..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 - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Information that the listener already knows.
Example of lexical ambiguity - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..The word 'light' has more than one
meaning.
Word segmentation - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..It helps them recognize individual words within
continuous speech.
Lexical Priming - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..The child processes the word 'car' quickly because it is
related to 'driver.'
Control Process in Memory - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Repeating the store's name for over a
minute to remember it later.
Sensory Memory to Short-Term Memory - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..A person reads a phone
number and repeats it to remember it.
Central Executive Attention - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Focusing on the variety of pets in a pet
store to remember how affordable they were later.
Chunking in Memory - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..By chunking the numbers into sets and
associating those sets with meaningful information.
Semanticization of Remote Memories - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..A child remembers being taught
how to draw a lion in a classroom with blue walls and a space-themed carpet.
Inattentional blindness explained - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Jack was directing his attention to his
child, so he did not observe the foul that his child's teammate committed, even though it
was in plain sight, which is why he was confused when the goal did not count.
,Attention and information processing - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..It improves processing when
directed toward a particular location.
Perceptual load and processing capacity - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..A person carrying out a
difficult, high-load task is less likely to be distracted because they have the lower limits
of processing capacity.
Illusory correlations and stereotyping - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..By creating a perceived
relationship between certain groups of people and specific behaviors.
Validity of syllogism - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..A syllogism is valid due to the belief bias.
Expected utility approach in decision-making - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..It considers how people
are expected to behave but does not always reflect how people actually behave;
consequently, people sometimes make decisions that are not in their best interest.
Use of computer games in therapy - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Computer games strengthen the
client's engagement with treatment.
Initial state in problem-solving - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..The initial state is the situation
surrounding a problem at the beginning, and the goal state is the solution to a problem.
Defining the problem - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Defining the problem helps identify goals and
their related solutions.
Insight problems - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..A person working through an insight problem may not
know how close they are to the solution.
Non-insight problems - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..A person working on a non-insight problem may
have a sense of progressing toward a solution.
Mind wandering - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..When working on a problem that cannot initially be
solved, mind wandering can occur during a break.
Example of insight - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..A person does not understand a joke and then
suddenly laughs when they realize it's a pun.
Viewpoint invariance - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Viewpoint invariance enables an object to be
recognized from any angle.
Apparent movement - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..The three components of apparent movement
interact to create the misperception of actual motion.
, Emotions and decision making - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Predicting that loss will have a greater
effect than an equivalent gain leads to higher risk avoidance.
fMRI studies on brain activity - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..People with more brain activity in the
insula reject more offers than those with less activity due to the correlation between
negative emotions and the insula.
Prefrontal cortex activation - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Prefrontal cortex activation predicted the
decisions to purchase a product.
Insula activation - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Insula activation with excessively priced items
predicted the decision not to purchase it.
Bottom-up processing - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Bottom-up processing helps identify the one
flower because it is a different color than the other flower.
Overt attention - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..The person rapidly moves their eyes to different objects
in the apartment instead of keeping their eyes still.
Experience sampling - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..The researcher sends messages to the
participants to have them indicate whether they were watching television at that time.
Simons and Chabris' research - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..That people attending to a specific
circumstance often will not notice other noteworthy circumstances occurring right in
front of them.
Top-down processing - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Object familiarity can reduce the occurrence of
illusory conjunctions.
Circadian change in body temperature - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Decreases in body temperature
promote sleepiness.
Sleep debt - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..It increases reaction time.
Selective attention - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..It allows humans to focus on information in their
environment.
Risk factor for SIDS - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Being exposed to hyperthermia.
Insomnia difficulties - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Trouble falling asleep and staying asleep at night.
Sleep apnea - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..By causing a person to wake up several times all night.
Narcolepsy treatment - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Taking stimulant medication.
ASSESSMENT FINAL EXAM VERSION 1 NEWEST
2025/2026 COMPLETE 200 QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY
GRADED A+||BRAND NEW VERSION!! psychologist
who studied the quantitative measurement of m
Syntactic coordination - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..It helps people coordinate their grammatical
statements during conversation.
Constraint-based approach - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..By parsing sentences and not only using
syntactic influences.
Spatial representations - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Held in a specific location.
Propositional representations - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Formed as an equation or statement.
Visual cortex organization - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..As a topographic map.
Pegword technique - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..By placing objects with a concrete word.
Wundt's theoretical approach - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Structuralism.
Second stage of Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory -
✔✔ANSW✔✔..Preoperational.
Theory developed by Piaget - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Four Stage Theory.
Fluid intelligence - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Defined as information processing abilities.
Aspect of lifespan development examining language - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Cognitive.
Subdomain of cognition describing solving problems of information overload -
✔✔ANSW✔✔..Attention.
,Specialized area of the temporal lobe for identifying familiar faces -
✔✔ANSW✔✔..Fusiform face area.
Example of localization of function in the brain - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..An area in the temporal
lobe is responsible for recognizing faces.
Lobe integrating sensory information to guide behavior - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Frontal.
Neurons responding to specific visual properties - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Feature detectors.
Lobe of the brain associated with facial recognition, object recognition, and language
acquisition - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Temporal.
Lexicon - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..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 - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Information that the listener already knows.
Example of lexical ambiguity - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..The word 'light' has more than one
meaning.
Word segmentation - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..It helps them recognize individual words within
continuous speech.
Lexical Priming - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..The child processes the word 'car' quickly because it is
related to 'driver.'
Control Process in Memory - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Repeating the store's name for over a
minute to remember it later.
Sensory Memory to Short-Term Memory - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..A person reads a phone
number and repeats it to remember it.
Central Executive Attention - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Focusing on the variety of pets in a pet
store to remember how affordable they were later.
Chunking in Memory - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..By chunking the numbers into sets and
associating those sets with meaningful information.
Semanticization of Remote Memories - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..A child remembers being taught
how to draw a lion in a classroom with blue walls and a space-themed carpet.
Inattentional blindness explained - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Jack was directing his attention to his
child, so he did not observe the foul that his child's teammate committed, even though it
was in plain sight, which is why he was confused when the goal did not count.
,Attention and information processing - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..It improves processing when
directed toward a particular location.
Perceptual load and processing capacity - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..A person carrying out a
difficult, high-load task is less likely to be distracted because they have the lower limits
of processing capacity.
Illusory correlations and stereotyping - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..By creating a perceived
relationship between certain groups of people and specific behaviors.
Validity of syllogism - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..A syllogism is valid due to the belief bias.
Expected utility approach in decision-making - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..It considers how people
are expected to behave but does not always reflect how people actually behave;
consequently, people sometimes make decisions that are not in their best interest.
Use of computer games in therapy - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Computer games strengthen the
client's engagement with treatment.
Initial state in problem-solving - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..The initial state is the situation
surrounding a problem at the beginning, and the goal state is the solution to a problem.
Defining the problem - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Defining the problem helps identify goals and
their related solutions.
Insight problems - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..A person working through an insight problem may not
know how close they are to the solution.
Non-insight problems - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..A person working on a non-insight problem may
have a sense of progressing toward a solution.
Mind wandering - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..When working on a problem that cannot initially be
solved, mind wandering can occur during a break.
Example of insight - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..A person does not understand a joke and then
suddenly laughs when they realize it's a pun.
Viewpoint invariance - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Viewpoint invariance enables an object to be
recognized from any angle.
Apparent movement - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..The three components of apparent movement
interact to create the misperception of actual motion.
, Emotions and decision making - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Predicting that loss will have a greater
effect than an equivalent gain leads to higher risk avoidance.
fMRI studies on brain activity - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..People with more brain activity in the
insula reject more offers than those with less activity due to the correlation between
negative emotions and the insula.
Prefrontal cortex activation - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Prefrontal cortex activation predicted the
decisions to purchase a product.
Insula activation - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Insula activation with excessively priced items
predicted the decision not to purchase it.
Bottom-up processing - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Bottom-up processing helps identify the one
flower because it is a different color than the other flower.
Overt attention - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..The person rapidly moves their eyes to different objects
in the apartment instead of keeping their eyes still.
Experience sampling - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..The researcher sends messages to the
participants to have them indicate whether they were watching television at that time.
Simons and Chabris' research - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..That people attending to a specific
circumstance often will not notice other noteworthy circumstances occurring right in
front of them.
Top-down processing - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Object familiarity can reduce the occurrence of
illusory conjunctions.
Circadian change in body temperature - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Decreases in body temperature
promote sleepiness.
Sleep debt - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..It increases reaction time.
Selective attention - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..It allows humans to focus on information in their
environment.
Risk factor for SIDS - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Being exposed to hyperthermia.
Insomnia difficulties - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Trouble falling asleep and staying asleep at night.
Sleep apnea - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..By causing a person to wake up several times all night.
Narcolepsy treatment - ✔✔ANSW✔✔..Taking stimulant medication.
