WGU D570 Section 1 Exam Questions
And Answers
\.Acquisition - Answer- how children learn their native language & how people learn
additional languages, either as children or later in life
\.Action Potential - Answer- also known as nerve impulse; propagated electrical potential
responsible for transmitting neural information and for communication between neurons;
typically travels down a neuron's axon
\.Analytic Introspection - Answer- a procedure used by Wundt & other early psychologists in
which trained participants described their experiences and thought processes in response to
stimuli
\.Anaphoric Inference - Answer- an inference that connects an object or person in 1 sentence
to an object or person in another sentence to maintain coherence (ex: "My neighbor's dog has
been barking all morning. It woke us up early." Inference = "it" refers to the dog or the dog's
barking)
\.Artificial Intelligence - Answer- A field of study aiming to make machines behave in ways
that would be considered intelligent if a human were behaving that way.
\.Attention - Answer- solves the problem of information overload in cognitive processing
systems by selecting some information for further processing, or by managing resources applied
to several sources of information simultaneously
\.Axons - Answer- also known as nerve fibers; part of the neuron that transmits signals from
the cell body to the synapse at the end of the axon
,\.Baillargeon's Theory of Object Properties - Answer- Suggests that an infant's understanding
of the physical world and object knowledge develops before experiencing them.
\.Balanced Dominance - Answer- occurs when a word has 2 or more meanings that are all
roughly equal in frequency or familiarity (ex - cast: a group of people in a play, movie, or show
or a covering applied to a broken or fractured limb)
\.Behaviorism - Answer- An approach to psychology that states that observable behavior
provides the only valid data for psychology; rejects the idea that consciousness and
unobservable mental processes can be studied.
\.Biased Dominance - Answer- occurs when 1 meaning of a word with multiple meanings is
significantly more common, frequent, and comes to mind more easily than others (ex - bank:
dominant meaning = financial building, non-dominant meaning = side of a river)
\.Brain Imaging - Answer- Technique that results in images of the brain that represent brain
activity.
\.Broca's Area - Answer- an area in the frontal lobe associated with the production of
language
\.Casual Inference - Answer- an inference that results in the conclusion that the events
described in 1 clause or sentence were caused by events that occurred in a previous clause or
sentence (ex: "The pool was closed suddenly as the sky became dark and gloomy." Inference =
an incoming storm caused the sky to become dark and gloomy, which caused the sudden closing
of the pool)
, \.Cell Body - Answer- part of a cell that contains mechanisms that keep the cell alive; in some
neurons, the cell body & the dendrites associated with it receive information from other
neurons
\.Choice Reaction Time - Answer- time to respond to one of 2 or more stimuli (Example B)
\.Chomsky's Language Theory - Answer- Suggests that all humans are born with an innate
capacity to learn language & are born with a Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
\.Classical Conditioning - Answer- A procedure in which pairing a neutral stimulus with a
responsive stimulus causes the neutral stimulus to elicit that response.
\.Cognition - Answer- the mental processes involved in perception, attention, memory,
language, problem-solving, reasoning, and decision-making
\.Cognitive Development/Milestones - Answer- Describes the developmental milestones
from infancy to childhood.
\.Cognitive Domain - Answer- Development in learning, attention, memory, language,
thinking, reasoning, & creativity.
\.Cognitive Map - Answer- A mental conception of a spatial layout.
\.Cognitive Psychology - Answer- the scientific study of mind and cognition, and includes
determining characteristics and properties of the mind and how it operates
\.Cognitive Revolution - Answer- A paradigm shift that occurred in the 1950s in which the
main focus of psychology was to explain the operation and functions of the mind.
And Answers
\.Acquisition - Answer- how children learn their native language & how people learn
additional languages, either as children or later in life
\.Action Potential - Answer- also known as nerve impulse; propagated electrical potential
responsible for transmitting neural information and for communication between neurons;
typically travels down a neuron's axon
\.Analytic Introspection - Answer- a procedure used by Wundt & other early psychologists in
which trained participants described their experiences and thought processes in response to
stimuli
\.Anaphoric Inference - Answer- an inference that connects an object or person in 1 sentence
to an object or person in another sentence to maintain coherence (ex: "My neighbor's dog has
been barking all morning. It woke us up early." Inference = "it" refers to the dog or the dog's
barking)
\.Artificial Intelligence - Answer- A field of study aiming to make machines behave in ways
that would be considered intelligent if a human were behaving that way.
\.Attention - Answer- solves the problem of information overload in cognitive processing
systems by selecting some information for further processing, or by managing resources applied
to several sources of information simultaneously
\.Axons - Answer- also known as nerve fibers; part of the neuron that transmits signals from
the cell body to the synapse at the end of the axon
,\.Baillargeon's Theory of Object Properties - Answer- Suggests that an infant's understanding
of the physical world and object knowledge develops before experiencing them.
\.Balanced Dominance - Answer- occurs when a word has 2 or more meanings that are all
roughly equal in frequency or familiarity (ex - cast: a group of people in a play, movie, or show
or a covering applied to a broken or fractured limb)
\.Behaviorism - Answer- An approach to psychology that states that observable behavior
provides the only valid data for psychology; rejects the idea that consciousness and
unobservable mental processes can be studied.
\.Biased Dominance - Answer- occurs when 1 meaning of a word with multiple meanings is
significantly more common, frequent, and comes to mind more easily than others (ex - bank:
dominant meaning = financial building, non-dominant meaning = side of a river)
\.Brain Imaging - Answer- Technique that results in images of the brain that represent brain
activity.
\.Broca's Area - Answer- an area in the frontal lobe associated with the production of
language
\.Casual Inference - Answer- an inference that results in the conclusion that the events
described in 1 clause or sentence were caused by events that occurred in a previous clause or
sentence (ex: "The pool was closed suddenly as the sky became dark and gloomy." Inference =
an incoming storm caused the sky to become dark and gloomy, which caused the sudden closing
of the pool)
, \.Cell Body - Answer- part of a cell that contains mechanisms that keep the cell alive; in some
neurons, the cell body & the dendrites associated with it receive information from other
neurons
\.Choice Reaction Time - Answer- time to respond to one of 2 or more stimuli (Example B)
\.Chomsky's Language Theory - Answer- Suggests that all humans are born with an innate
capacity to learn language & are born with a Language Acquisition Device (LAD).
\.Classical Conditioning - Answer- A procedure in which pairing a neutral stimulus with a
responsive stimulus causes the neutral stimulus to elicit that response.
\.Cognition - Answer- the mental processes involved in perception, attention, memory,
language, problem-solving, reasoning, and decision-making
\.Cognitive Development/Milestones - Answer- Describes the developmental milestones
from infancy to childhood.
\.Cognitive Domain - Answer- Development in learning, attention, memory, language,
thinking, reasoning, & creativity.
\.Cognitive Map - Answer- A mental conception of a spatial layout.
\.Cognitive Psychology - Answer- the scientific study of mind and cognition, and includes
determining characteristics and properties of the mind and how it operates
\.Cognitive Revolution - Answer- A paradigm shift that occurred in the 1950s in which the
main focus of psychology was to explain the operation and functions of the mind.
