WGU D570 Exam Cognitive Psychology Exam 2025
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An engineer notices a colleague's leaking cup and then thinks about how paper
degrades and applies this observation to a design for planter pots that leave no
carbon footprint. Which method does the engineer apply to solve the problem of
designing their product in this scenario? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------
The engineer applied analogical reasoning that considers semantic knowledge and
observations of how others solve problems while designing their product.
A group is asked to solve a complex puzzle by first stating its complex rules. Then
later, the puzzle is re-explained more simply, leading to a higher rate of success.
How would understanding the aspects of reasoning affect perception of the
problem? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------By considering how context of
presentation influences judgment
Which statement explains why it is possible to juggle while thinking about a future
vacation? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------A person can think clearly about
the vacation if they are an expert juggler
While preparing for a quiz, a student commits key terms to long-term memory by
associating those terms to meaningful moments in their life. How does this
,practice help the student memorize the terms? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------
------It employs the technique of elaborative rehearsal
A person is walking and talking with a friend in the woods. How does the
visuospatial sketch pad differ from the phonological loop according to Baddeley's
model of working memory? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------The
visuospatial sketch pad holds information about potential hazards, whereas the
phonological loop holds information related to the friend's words.
A person recalls a fond childhood memory after walking past a garden of fragrant
roses. Which type of memory is demonstrated in this scenario? ---------CORRECT
ANSWER-----------------Autobiographical memory
What was John Watson known for? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------
contributions to Behaviorism
What was Jean Piaget known for? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Creating
the Stages of Cognitive development
What was Alexander Huth known for? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------
contributions to brain mapping
,What was Stephen Kosslyn known for? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------
contributions to perception
What was Noam Chomsky known for? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------
contributions to language acquisition device (LAD)
What is the mind's central role? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------
determining our various mental abilities such as perception, attention, memory,
emotion, language, deciding, thinking, and reasoning.
Cognitive psychology ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------study of mental
processes, which includes determining the characteristics and properties of the
mind and how it operates. Focuses on the basic mechanisms of the mind.
Who conducted on of the first experiments of Cognitive Psychology in 1868, 11
years before the founding of the 1st laboratory of scientific psychology? ---------
CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Franciscus Donders
What was Donder's Pioneering Experiment? ---------CORRECT ANSWER----------------
-How long it takes to make decisions
, What cannot be measured directly, but must be inferred from behavior? ---------
CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Mental responses
How long it takes to respond to presentation of a stimulus ---------CORRECT
ANSWER-----------------reaction time
What is measured by the paper folding test? ---------CORRECT ANSWER---------------
--Spatial Imagery
What is mental imagery? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------The ability to
recreate sensory information without physical stimuli
What is a component of psychosocial development? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----
------------Personality
A child reads the following incorrect sentence: "The car was traveling down the
hills were beautiful." Which cognitive process illustrates casual inference? ---------
CORRECT ANSWER-----------------The child infers that the hills being beautiful are
caused by the motion of the moving car
| Actual Exam Questions and Correct Answers |
Graded A+ | Verified Answers | Latest Version |
Western Governors University
An engineer notices a colleague's leaking cup and then thinks about how paper
degrades and applies this observation to a design for planter pots that leave no
carbon footprint. Which method does the engineer apply to solve the problem of
designing their product in this scenario? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------
The engineer applied analogical reasoning that considers semantic knowledge and
observations of how others solve problems while designing their product.
A group is asked to solve a complex puzzle by first stating its complex rules. Then
later, the puzzle is re-explained more simply, leading to a higher rate of success.
How would understanding the aspects of reasoning affect perception of the
problem? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------By considering how context of
presentation influences judgment
Which statement explains why it is possible to juggle while thinking about a future
vacation? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------A person can think clearly about
the vacation if they are an expert juggler
While preparing for a quiz, a student commits key terms to long-term memory by
associating those terms to meaningful moments in their life. How does this
,practice help the student memorize the terms? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------
------It employs the technique of elaborative rehearsal
A person is walking and talking with a friend in the woods. How does the
visuospatial sketch pad differ from the phonological loop according to Baddeley's
model of working memory? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------The
visuospatial sketch pad holds information about potential hazards, whereas the
phonological loop holds information related to the friend's words.
A person recalls a fond childhood memory after walking past a garden of fragrant
roses. Which type of memory is demonstrated in this scenario? ---------CORRECT
ANSWER-----------------Autobiographical memory
What was John Watson known for? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------
contributions to Behaviorism
What was Jean Piaget known for? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Creating
the Stages of Cognitive development
What was Alexander Huth known for? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------
contributions to brain mapping
,What was Stephen Kosslyn known for? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------
contributions to perception
What was Noam Chomsky known for? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------
contributions to language acquisition device (LAD)
What is the mind's central role? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------
determining our various mental abilities such as perception, attention, memory,
emotion, language, deciding, thinking, and reasoning.
Cognitive psychology ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------study of mental
processes, which includes determining the characteristics and properties of the
mind and how it operates. Focuses on the basic mechanisms of the mind.
Who conducted on of the first experiments of Cognitive Psychology in 1868, 11
years before the founding of the 1st laboratory of scientific psychology? ---------
CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Franciscus Donders
What was Donder's Pioneering Experiment? ---------CORRECT ANSWER----------------
-How long it takes to make decisions
, What cannot be measured directly, but must be inferred from behavior? ---------
CORRECT ANSWER-----------------Mental responses
How long it takes to respond to presentation of a stimulus ---------CORRECT
ANSWER-----------------reaction time
What is measured by the paper folding test? ---------CORRECT ANSWER---------------
--Spatial Imagery
What is mental imagery? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----------------The ability to
recreate sensory information without physical stimuli
What is a component of psychosocial development? ---------CORRECT ANSWER-----
------------Personality
A child reads the following incorrect sentence: "The car was traveling down the
hills were beautiful." Which cognitive process illustrates casual inference? ---------
CORRECT ANSWER-----------------The child infers that the hills being beautiful are
caused by the motion of the moving car
