WGU D570 Cognitive Psychology 2026
Question and Answer | Complete Exam
Prep Using Previously Tested Content
• What is mental imagery? -✓✓The ability to recreate sensory
information without physical stimuli
• What is a component of psychosocial development? -✓✓Personality
• A child reads the following incorrect sentence: "The car was traveling
down the hills were beautiful." Which cognitive process illustrates
casual inference? -✓✓The child infers that the hills being beautiful are
caused by the motion of the moving car
• Which conversation between two students demonstrates the process of
entrainment? -✓✓The students both start speaking loudly and gesturing.
• Which cortex of the frontal lobe is activated when someone determines
whether another person appears to be physically attractive? -✓✓Frontal
Cortex
• What is the the electrical impulse fired down the axon of a neuron? -
✓✓Action Potential
• Which part of a neuron transports an electrical signal? -✓✓Axon
,• Which types of tasks have revealed cognitive deficits in people with a
substance abuse disorder? -✓✓Working Memory Tests
• Which example shows how sensory memory results in the persistence
of vision when watching fireworks? -✓✓Fireworks appear as falling
trails of light due to iconic memories lasting fractions of a second.
• Which explanation shows how multiple forms of memory would
contribute to effective execution of a mental math problem? -
✓✓Numbers are held in short-term memory and manipulations are
conducted on the numbers in working memory when solving the math
problem.
• Which scenario exemplifies how the articulatory rehearsal process
contributes to a student's short-term memory for course lecture material,
according to Baddeley's model? -✓✓The student repeats silently what
their instructor has said before writing it down.
• A person is trying to recall the names of a set of seven actors whose
pictures were briefly presented upside down. What explains how the
episodic buffer enhances working memory in this scenario? -✓✓The
episodic buffer connects with long-term memory of the actors' faces and
names, bringing content into working memory.
,• How does activity-silent working memory help performance on mental
rotation problems? -✓✓Strengthening of connections between neurons
helps performance on mental rotation problems
• How is the primacy effect related to attention for a set of words
presented sequentially? -✓✓The first word presented receives the
persons full attention.
• Which example shows Westmacott and Moscovitch's concept of
autobiographically significant semantic memories? -✓✓Person recalls
the name of the actor that they saw in the airport years ago.
• A person is studying a list of types of fish for a wildlife test that will
occur in one week. Which example illustrates the combined long-term
memory encoding strategies of visual imagery and organization? -
✓✓The person imagines each fish on a tree structure corresponding to
categories of fish types.
• A person is studying a list of names of pastries for their new job at a
bakery. Which example shows the interaction between the deep
processing strategies of generation and self-reference? -✓✓The person
creates flashcards for the names of the pastries, pairing each with an
estimate of how appetizing the pastry appears.
• A person surprises themself in recalling the name of an artist most
have not heard of. Which process occurs when the person tries to
remember how they learned that fact? -✓✓Source monitoring
, • Researchers Robert Nash and Kimberley Wade ran an experiment in
which participants played a gambling game on a computer and were
later shown a modified video of themselves cheating. What did this
experiment reveal about false confessions? -✓✓Participants confessed to
cheating after being shown the modified video, even though they did not
recall cheating indicating the power of suggestive questioning and
tactics
• Which example reflects the impact of the self-image hypothesis? -
✓✓A person remembers graduating from law school
• What is a primary concern of behaviorism according to John Watson? -
✓✓Identifying the relationship between environmental stimuli and
behavior
• Which concept supports the paired-associate learning results? -
✓✓Conceptual peg hypothesis
• Which component of Broadbent's flow diagram of the mind blocks
unattended messages? -✓✓Filter
• Which evidence disproves Aristotle's assertion that "thought is
impossible without an image"? -✓✓People who cannot visualize images
are still capable of thinking
Question and Answer | Complete Exam
Prep Using Previously Tested Content
• What is mental imagery? -✓✓The ability to recreate sensory
information without physical stimuli
• What is a component of psychosocial development? -✓✓Personality
• A child reads the following incorrect sentence: "The car was traveling
down the hills were beautiful." Which cognitive process illustrates
casual inference? -✓✓The child infers that the hills being beautiful are
caused by the motion of the moving car
• Which conversation between two students demonstrates the process of
entrainment? -✓✓The students both start speaking loudly and gesturing.
• Which cortex of the frontal lobe is activated when someone determines
whether another person appears to be physically attractive? -✓✓Frontal
Cortex
• What is the the electrical impulse fired down the axon of a neuron? -
✓✓Action Potential
• Which part of a neuron transports an electrical signal? -✓✓Axon
,• Which types of tasks have revealed cognitive deficits in people with a
substance abuse disorder? -✓✓Working Memory Tests
• Which example shows how sensory memory results in the persistence
of vision when watching fireworks? -✓✓Fireworks appear as falling
trails of light due to iconic memories lasting fractions of a second.
• Which explanation shows how multiple forms of memory would
contribute to effective execution of a mental math problem? -
✓✓Numbers are held in short-term memory and manipulations are
conducted on the numbers in working memory when solving the math
problem.
• Which scenario exemplifies how the articulatory rehearsal process
contributes to a student's short-term memory for course lecture material,
according to Baddeley's model? -✓✓The student repeats silently what
their instructor has said before writing it down.
• A person is trying to recall the names of a set of seven actors whose
pictures were briefly presented upside down. What explains how the
episodic buffer enhances working memory in this scenario? -✓✓The
episodic buffer connects with long-term memory of the actors' faces and
names, bringing content into working memory.
,• How does activity-silent working memory help performance on mental
rotation problems? -✓✓Strengthening of connections between neurons
helps performance on mental rotation problems
• How is the primacy effect related to attention for a set of words
presented sequentially? -✓✓The first word presented receives the
persons full attention.
• Which example shows Westmacott and Moscovitch's concept of
autobiographically significant semantic memories? -✓✓Person recalls
the name of the actor that they saw in the airport years ago.
• A person is studying a list of types of fish for a wildlife test that will
occur in one week. Which example illustrates the combined long-term
memory encoding strategies of visual imagery and organization? -
✓✓The person imagines each fish on a tree structure corresponding to
categories of fish types.
• A person is studying a list of names of pastries for their new job at a
bakery. Which example shows the interaction between the deep
processing strategies of generation and self-reference? -✓✓The person
creates flashcards for the names of the pastries, pairing each with an
estimate of how appetizing the pastry appears.
• A person surprises themself in recalling the name of an artist most
have not heard of. Which process occurs when the person tries to
remember how they learned that fact? -✓✓Source monitoring
, • Researchers Robert Nash and Kimberley Wade ran an experiment in
which participants played a gambling game on a computer and were
later shown a modified video of themselves cheating. What did this
experiment reveal about false confessions? -✓✓Participants confessed to
cheating after being shown the modified video, even though they did not
recall cheating indicating the power of suggestive questioning and
tactics
• Which example reflects the impact of the self-image hypothesis? -
✓✓A person remembers graduating from law school
• What is a primary concern of behaviorism according to John Watson? -
✓✓Identifying the relationship between environmental stimuli and
behavior
• Which concept supports the paired-associate learning results? -
✓✓Conceptual peg hypothesis
• Which component of Broadbent's flow diagram of the mind blocks
unattended messages? -✓✓Filter
• Which evidence disproves Aristotle's assertion that "thought is
impossible without an image"? -✓✓People who cannot visualize images
are still capable of thinking
