WGU D570 TEST BANK EXAMS SET EXAM
FULL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
2026 100% CORRECT.
⫸ A student started a new club for their school and is thinking of
ways to increase participation. Which scenario is based on the
student's use of analogical transfer? Answer: The student uses colorful
flyers to advertise the club because they remember that this strategy
previously led to increased school voting.
⫸ A musician is having a difficult time composing a new song. They
spend a week camping alone in the mountains, completing the song
while in the wilderness. How can the musician's solitude contribute to
this creativity and solve the problem? Answer: The musician could
avoid distractions and find space to think, allowing them to generate
new ideas.
⫸ What is the relationship between open monitoring meditation and
creativity? Answer: Open monitoring meditation is associated with
enhanced creativity because it causes greater activation of the default
mode network.
⫸ A basketball coach is judging two potential players for recruitment
and presumes that the taller athlete is more talented than the shorter
one. What thought process does the coach utilize? Answer: A
stereotype about height and performance
,⫸ A first-year university student readily makes new friends with their
engineering classmates. The student assumes that all engineers must
be outgoing like their classmates. How does this case demonstrate
misuse of the representativeness heuristic? Answer: The student
shows a bias involving a small sample of the population.
⫸ Some states apply rules such as "if a citizen reaches the age of 16,
then they may obtain a driver's license." how does deductive
reasoning govern such rules? Answer: by applying permission
schemas
⫸ Which conclusion is drawn from performance on conditional
reasoning tasks, such as the Watson four-card problem? Answer:
Performance improves when problems are stated in real-world terms
⫸ Why do humans naturally gravitate toward using the oblique effect
when constructing our own environments? Answer: Because
horizontals and verticals occur more frequently in the natural world
⫸ How do intentions influence mirror neurons? Answer: Mirror
neurons address the cause of actions, and respond with varying
degrees of activity based on intentions and context.
⫸ A community construction project is proposed in two different
ways to an environmentally conscious audience. Group A is told that
only 20% of the trees will be torn down, while group B is told that
80% of the trees will be saved. Which statement accurately describes
the groups' anticipated responses to the community project, based on
the principles of the framing effect? Answer: Group B is more likely
,to favor the project since the focus is on retention and gain of 80% of
the trees, rather than the 20% loss of trees.
⫸ 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.
⫸ 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.
⫸ 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
⫸ 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
⫸ 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
⫸ Why is binding important in attention? Answer: Binding makes it
possible to perceive a whole object rather than a collection of it parts
⫸ 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
⫸ 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.
⫸ 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.
⫸ 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
FULL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
2026 100% CORRECT.
⫸ A student started a new club for their school and is thinking of
ways to increase participation. Which scenario is based on the
student's use of analogical transfer? Answer: The student uses colorful
flyers to advertise the club because they remember that this strategy
previously led to increased school voting.
⫸ A musician is having a difficult time composing a new song. They
spend a week camping alone in the mountains, completing the song
while in the wilderness. How can the musician's solitude contribute to
this creativity and solve the problem? Answer: The musician could
avoid distractions and find space to think, allowing them to generate
new ideas.
⫸ What is the relationship between open monitoring meditation and
creativity? Answer: Open monitoring meditation is associated with
enhanced creativity because it causes greater activation of the default
mode network.
⫸ A basketball coach is judging two potential players for recruitment
and presumes that the taller athlete is more talented than the shorter
one. What thought process does the coach utilize? Answer: A
stereotype about height and performance
,⫸ A first-year university student readily makes new friends with their
engineering classmates. The student assumes that all engineers must
be outgoing like their classmates. How does this case demonstrate
misuse of the representativeness heuristic? Answer: The student
shows a bias involving a small sample of the population.
⫸ Some states apply rules such as "if a citizen reaches the age of 16,
then they may obtain a driver's license." how does deductive
reasoning govern such rules? Answer: by applying permission
schemas
⫸ Which conclusion is drawn from performance on conditional
reasoning tasks, such as the Watson four-card problem? Answer:
Performance improves when problems are stated in real-world terms
⫸ Why do humans naturally gravitate toward using the oblique effect
when constructing our own environments? Answer: Because
horizontals and verticals occur more frequently in the natural world
⫸ How do intentions influence mirror neurons? Answer: Mirror
neurons address the cause of actions, and respond with varying
degrees of activity based on intentions and context.
⫸ A community construction project is proposed in two different
ways to an environmentally conscious audience. Group A is told that
only 20% of the trees will be torn down, while group B is told that
80% of the trees will be saved. Which statement accurately describes
the groups' anticipated responses to the community project, based on
the principles of the framing effect? Answer: Group B is more likely
,to favor the project since the focus is on retention and gain of 80% of
the trees, rather than the 20% loss of trees.
⫸ 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.
⫸ 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.
⫸ 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
⫸ 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
⫸ 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
⫸ Why is binding important in attention? Answer: Binding makes it
possible to perceive a whole object rather than a collection of it parts
⫸ 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
⫸ 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.
⫸ 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.
⫸ 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
