WGU D570 COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY OA
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM 2026 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS ALREADY PASSED
● cognitive development . Answer: Jean Piaget, stages
● Anatomy of the brain . Answer: Alexander huth, brain map
● visual imagery . Answer: Stephen kosslyn, perception
● Human language . Answer: Noam Chomsky, language acquisition
device (LAD)
● analytic introspection . Answer: Wilhelm Wundt, describe experiences
& thought process in response to stimuli
● Artificial intelligence . Answer: John McCarthy, make machines act
like how a human would
● Behaviorism . Answer: John Watson, studied observable behavior,
rejects introspect & investigate unobservable mental processes
, ● Classical conditioning . Answer: Ivan Pavlov & John Watson, neutral
stimuli becomes associated w meaningful stimulus resulting in a learned
response
● Cognition . Answer: All mental abilities like perceiving and thinking
● Cognitive psychology . Answer: Study of mental processes,
encompassing characteristics and properties of the mind
● Cognitive paradigm . Answer: The approach of focusing on
understanding mental processes and operation of mind
● Cognitive revolution . Answer: a shift in psychology from the
behaviorism to understand the operation of the mind
● Decision making process . Answer: Donders experiment, mental
processes to make choices
● Filter model of attention . Answer: Donald broadbent, depicts the
operation of the mind processing stages, directing attention to stimuli in
the environment
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM 2026 QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS ALREADY PASSED
● cognitive development . Answer: Jean Piaget, stages
● Anatomy of the brain . Answer: Alexander huth, brain map
● visual imagery . Answer: Stephen kosslyn, perception
● Human language . Answer: Noam Chomsky, language acquisition
device (LAD)
● analytic introspection . Answer: Wilhelm Wundt, describe experiences
& thought process in response to stimuli
● Artificial intelligence . Answer: John McCarthy, make machines act
like how a human would
● Behaviorism . Answer: John Watson, studied observable behavior,
rejects introspect & investigate unobservable mental processes
, ● Classical conditioning . Answer: Ivan Pavlov & John Watson, neutral
stimuli becomes associated w meaningful stimulus resulting in a learned
response
● Cognition . Answer: All mental abilities like perceiving and thinking
● Cognitive psychology . Answer: Study of mental processes,
encompassing characteristics and properties of the mind
● Cognitive paradigm . Answer: The approach of focusing on
understanding mental processes and operation of mind
● Cognitive revolution . Answer: a shift in psychology from the
behaviorism to understand the operation of the mind
● Decision making process . Answer: Donders experiment, mental
processes to make choices
● Filter model of attention . Answer: Donald broadbent, depicts the
operation of the mind processing stages, directing attention to stimuli in
the environment
