WGU D570 COGNITIVE
PSYCHOLOGY ASSESSMENT
GUIDE EXAM WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS 2025
Syntactic coordination ( Correct answers ) It helps people coordinate their
grammatical statements during conversation.
Constraint-based approach ( Correct answers ) By parsing sentences
and not only using syntactic influences.
Spatial representations ( Correct answers ) Held in a specific location.
Propositional representations ( Correct answers ) Formed as an equation or
statement. Visual cortex organization ( Correct answers ) As a topographic
map.
Pegword technique ( Correct answers ) By placing objects with a
concrete word. Wundt's theoretical approach ( Correct answers )
Structuralism.
Second stage of Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory ( Correct
answers ) Preoperational.
Theory developed by Piaget ( Correct answers ) Four Stage Theory.
Fluid intelligence ( Correct answers ) Defined as information processing
abilities. Aspect of lifespan development examining language ( Correct
answers ) Cognitive.
Subdomain of cognition describing solving problems of information
overload ( Correct answers ) Attention.
Specialized area of the temporal lobe for identifying familiar faces
( Correct answers ) Fusiform face area.
Example of localization of function in the brain ( Correct answers ) An
area in the temporal lobe is responsible for recognizing faces.
GRADED
A+
Lobe integrating sensory information to guide behavior ( Correct answers )
Frontal. Neurons responding to specific visual properties ( Correct answers )
Feature detectors.
, Lobe of the brain associated with facial recognition, object recognition,
and language acquisition ( Correct answers ) Temporal.
Lexicon ( Correct answers ) Refers to a person's knowledge of what words
mean, how they sound, and how they are used in relation to other words.
Given-new contract ( Correct answers ) Information that the listener already
knows.
Example of lexical ambiguity ( Correct answers ) The word 'light' has
more than one meaning.
Word segmentation ( Correct answers ) It helps them recognize individual
words within continuous speech.
Lexical Priming ( Correct answers ) The child processes the word 'car'
quickly because it is related to 'driver.'
Control Process in Memory ( Correct answers ) Repeating the store's name
for over a minute to remember it later.
Sensory Memory to Short-Term Memory ( Correct answers ) A person reads
a phone number and repeats it to remember it.
Central Executive Attention ( Correct answers ) Focusing on the variety of
pets in a pet store to remember how affordable they were later.
Chunking in Memory ( Correct answers ) By chunking the numbers
into sets and associating those sets with meaningful information.
Semanticization of Remote Memories ( Correct answers ) A child
remembers being taught how to draw a lion in a classroom with blue walls
and a space-themed carpet.
Episodic and Personal Semantic Memories Interaction ( Correct answers ) A
person is building a bookshelf and remembers the last one they built was
unsteady and kept falling, so now they build the bookshelf on a level
surface.
Expert-Induced Amnesia ( Correct answers ) The artist responds, 'I don't
know exactly. I do not think about it. I just know how to do it when I do it.'
Priming Example ( Correct answers ) Kelvin smells pizza while driving
through the city and then has an intense craving for pizza later that night
when thinking of what to order for dinner.
Effective Encoding Method ( Correct answers ) Repeating and then
associating
GRADED song lyrics with the words of a favorite poem.
A+
PSYCHOLOGY ASSESSMENT
GUIDE EXAM WITH CORRECT
ANSWERS 2025
Syntactic coordination ( Correct answers ) It helps people coordinate their
grammatical statements during conversation.
Constraint-based approach ( Correct answers ) By parsing sentences
and not only using syntactic influences.
Spatial representations ( Correct answers ) Held in a specific location.
Propositional representations ( Correct answers ) Formed as an equation or
statement. Visual cortex organization ( Correct answers ) As a topographic
map.
Pegword technique ( Correct answers ) By placing objects with a
concrete word. Wundt's theoretical approach ( Correct answers )
Structuralism.
Second stage of Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory ( Correct
answers ) Preoperational.
Theory developed by Piaget ( Correct answers ) Four Stage Theory.
Fluid intelligence ( Correct answers ) Defined as information processing
abilities. Aspect of lifespan development examining language ( Correct
answers ) Cognitive.
Subdomain of cognition describing solving problems of information
overload ( Correct answers ) Attention.
Specialized area of the temporal lobe for identifying familiar faces
( Correct answers ) Fusiform face area.
Example of localization of function in the brain ( Correct answers ) An
area in the temporal lobe is responsible for recognizing faces.
GRADED
A+
Lobe integrating sensory information to guide behavior ( Correct answers )
Frontal. Neurons responding to specific visual properties ( Correct answers )
Feature detectors.
, Lobe of the brain associated with facial recognition, object recognition,
and language acquisition ( Correct answers ) Temporal.
Lexicon ( Correct answers ) Refers to a person's knowledge of what words
mean, how they sound, and how they are used in relation to other words.
Given-new contract ( Correct answers ) Information that the listener already
knows.
Example of lexical ambiguity ( Correct answers ) The word 'light' has
more than one meaning.
Word segmentation ( Correct answers ) It helps them recognize individual
words within continuous speech.
Lexical Priming ( Correct answers ) The child processes the word 'car'
quickly because it is related to 'driver.'
Control Process in Memory ( Correct answers ) Repeating the store's name
for over a minute to remember it later.
Sensory Memory to Short-Term Memory ( Correct answers ) A person reads
a phone number and repeats it to remember it.
Central Executive Attention ( Correct answers ) Focusing on the variety of
pets in a pet store to remember how affordable they were later.
Chunking in Memory ( Correct answers ) By chunking the numbers
into sets and associating those sets with meaningful information.
Semanticization of Remote Memories ( Correct answers ) A child
remembers being taught how to draw a lion in a classroom with blue walls
and a space-themed carpet.
Episodic and Personal Semantic Memories Interaction ( Correct answers ) A
person is building a bookshelf and remembers the last one they built was
unsteady and kept falling, so now they build the bookshelf on a level
surface.
Expert-Induced Amnesia ( Correct answers ) The artist responds, 'I don't
know exactly. I do not think about it. I just know how to do it when I do it.'
Priming Example ( Correct answers ) Kelvin smells pizza while driving
through the city and then has an intense craving for pizza later that night
when thinking of what to order for dinner.
Effective Encoding Method ( Correct answers ) Repeating and then
associating
GRADED song lyrics with the words of a favorite poem.
A+
