WGU D570 – COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY (2025 EDITION)
COMPREHENSIVE PRACTICE EXAM AND STUDY
RESOURCE
ALIGNED WITH WESTERN GOVERNORS UNIVERSITY’S BS
IN PSYCHOLOGY CURRICULUM AND COMPETENCY-
BASED LEARNING STANDARDS
What is measured by the paper folding test?
Spatial Imagery
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"?
COMPREHENSIVE PRACTICE EXAM AND STUDY
RESOURCE
ALIGNED WITH WESTERN GOVERNORS UNIVERSITY’S BS
IN PSYCHOLOGY CURRICULUM AND COMPETENCY-
BASED LEARNING STANDARDS
What is measured by the paper folding test?
Spatial Imagery
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"?
