WGU D570 COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY ACTUAL
EXAM NEWEST VERSION 2025/2026 QUESTION
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Terms in this set (458)
What is measured by the Spatial Imagery
paper folding test?
The ability to recreate sensory information without
What is mental imagery?
physical stimuli
What is a component of Personality
psychosocial
development?
A child reads the following The child infers that the hills being beautiful are
incorrect sentence: "The caused by the motion of the moving car
car was traveling down the
hills were beautiful." Which
cognitive process
illustrates casual
inference?
Which conversation The students both start speaking loudly and
between two students gesturing.
demonstrates the process
of entrainment?
,Which cortex of the Frontal Cortex
frontal lobe is activated
when someone
determines whether
another person appears
to be physically
attractive?
What is the the electrical Action Potential
impulse fired down the
axon of a neuron?
Which part of a neuron Axon
transports an electrical
signal?
Which types of tasks have Working Memory Tests
revealed cognitive deficits
in people with a substance
abuse disorder?
Which example shows Fireworks appear as falling trails of light due to iconic
how sensory memory memories lasting fractions of a second.
results in the persistence
of vision when watching
fireworks?
Which explanation shows Numbers are held in short-term memory and
how multiple forms of manipulations are conducted on the numbers in
memory would contribute working memory when solving the math problem.
to effective execution of a
mental math problem?
,Which scenario The student repeats silently what their instructor has
exemplifies how the said before writing it down.
articulatory rehearsal
process contributes to a
student's short-term
memory for course lecture
material, according to
Baddeley's model?
A person is trying to recall The episodic buffer connects with long-term memory
the names of a set of of the actors' faces and names, bringing content into
seven actors whose working memory.
pictures were briefly
presented upside down.
What explains how the
episodic buffer enhances
working memory in this
scenario?
How does activity-silent Strengthening of connections between neurons helps
working memory help performance on mental rotation problems
performance on mental
rotation problems?
How is the primacy effect The first word presented receives the persons full
related to attention for a attention.
set of words presented
sequentially?
Which example shows Person recalls the name of the actor that they saw in
Westmacott and the airport years ago.
Moscovitch's concept of
autobiographically
significant semantic
memories?
, A person is studying a list The person imagines each fish on a tree structure
of types of fish for a corresponding to categories of fish types.
wildlife test that will occur
in one week. Which
example illustrates the
combined long-term
memory encoding
strategies of visual
imagery and organization?
A person is studying a list The person creates flashcards for the names of the
of names of pastries for pastries, pairing each with an estimate of how
their new job at a bakery. appetizing the pastry appears.
Which example shows the
interaction between the
deep processing
strategies of generation
and self-reference?
A person surprises Source monitoring
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?
Researchers Robert Nash Participants confessed to cheating after being shown
and Kimberley Wade ran the modified video, even though they did not recall
an experiment in which cheating indicating the power of suggestive
participants played a questioning and tactics
gambling game on a
computer and were later
shown a modified video of
themselves cheating. What
did this experiment reveal
about false confessions?
EXAM NEWEST VERSION 2025/2026 QUESTION
AND CORRECT DETAILED VERIFIED ANSWERS
FROM VERIFIED SOURCES RATED A GRADE.
Save
Terms in this set (458)
What is measured by the Spatial Imagery
paper folding test?
The ability to recreate sensory information without
What is mental imagery?
physical stimuli
What is a component of Personality
psychosocial
development?
A child reads the following The child infers that the hills being beautiful are
incorrect sentence: "The caused by the motion of the moving car
car was traveling down the
hills were beautiful." Which
cognitive process
illustrates casual
inference?
Which conversation The students both start speaking loudly and
between two students gesturing.
demonstrates the process
of entrainment?
,Which cortex of the Frontal Cortex
frontal lobe is activated
when someone
determines whether
another person appears
to be physically
attractive?
What is the the electrical Action Potential
impulse fired down the
axon of a neuron?
Which part of a neuron Axon
transports an electrical
signal?
Which types of tasks have Working Memory Tests
revealed cognitive deficits
in people with a substance
abuse disorder?
Which example shows Fireworks appear as falling trails of light due to iconic
how sensory memory memories lasting fractions of a second.
results in the persistence
of vision when watching
fireworks?
Which explanation shows Numbers are held in short-term memory and
how multiple forms of manipulations are conducted on the numbers in
memory would contribute working memory when solving the math problem.
to effective execution of a
mental math problem?
,Which scenario The student repeats silently what their instructor has
exemplifies how the said before writing it down.
articulatory rehearsal
process contributes to a
student's short-term
memory for course lecture
material, according to
Baddeley's model?
A person is trying to recall The episodic buffer connects with long-term memory
the names of a set of of the actors' faces and names, bringing content into
seven actors whose working memory.
pictures were briefly
presented upside down.
What explains how the
episodic buffer enhances
working memory in this
scenario?
How does activity-silent Strengthening of connections between neurons helps
working memory help performance on mental rotation problems
performance on mental
rotation problems?
How is the primacy effect The first word presented receives the persons full
related to attention for a attention.
set of words presented
sequentially?
Which example shows Person recalls the name of the actor that they saw in
Westmacott and the airport years ago.
Moscovitch's concept of
autobiographically
significant semantic
memories?
, A person is studying a list The person imagines each fish on a tree structure
of types of fish for a corresponding to categories of fish types.
wildlife test that will occur
in one week. Which
example illustrates the
combined long-term
memory encoding
strategies of visual
imagery and organization?
A person is studying a list The person creates flashcards for the names of the
of names of pastries for pastries, pairing each with an estimate of how
their new job at a bakery. appetizing the pastry appears.
Which example shows the
interaction between the
deep processing
strategies of generation
and self-reference?
A person surprises Source monitoring
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?
Researchers Robert Nash Participants confessed to cheating after being shown
and Kimberley Wade ran the modified video, even though they did not recall
an experiment in which cheating indicating the power of suggestive
participants played a questioning and tactics
gambling game on a
computer and were later
shown a modified video of
themselves cheating. What
did this experiment reveal
about false confessions?
