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WGU D570 COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY PRE-
ASSESSMENT ACTUAL EXAM PREP 2026 ALL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
ALREADY A GRADED WITH EXPERT FEEDBACK
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1. What is a primary concern of behaviorism, according to John Watson?: Identi-fying the
relationship between environmental stimuli and behavior
2. What is measured by the paper folding test?: Spatial imagery
3. Which concept supports the paired-associate learning results?: Conceptual peg hypothesis
4. Which component of Broadbent's flow diagram of the mind blocks unattend-ed
messages?: Filter
5. What is mental imagery?: The ability to recreate sensory information without physical stimuli
6. Which evidence disproves Aristotle's assertion that "thought is impossible without
an image"?: People who cannot visualize images are still capable of thinking.
7. Which stage of Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory does an individual begin to
understand mathematical reasoning?: Concrete Operational
8. Which term describes a child's tendency to fixate on just one aspect of a
problem or object, according to Piaget?: Centration
9. Which stage in Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development is represented by a
child's ability to mentally represent objects and events with words and images?:
Preoperational
10. Which kind of intelligence reflects abilities drawn from experience?: Crystalized
11. What is a component of psychosocial development?: Personality
12. Which mental framework is used in learning, according to Piaget?: Schemas
13. Which cortex of the frontal lobe is activated when someone determines whether
another person appears to be physically attractive?: Frontal cortex
14. What is the electrical impulse fired down the axon of a neuron?: Action potential
15. Which part of a neuron transports an electrical signal?: Axon
16. A child reads the following incorrect sentence: "The car was traveling down the hills
were beautiful." Which cognitive process illustrates the garden path model of parsing?: The
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child changes their mind from the subject being the car to the hills.
17. A student reads these two sentences: A dog was running. It slipped and fell. Which
thought process is an example of an anaphoric inference?: The student infers that the word "it"
refers to the dog.
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WGU D570 COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY PRE-
ASSESSMENT ACTUAL EXAM PREP 2026 ALL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
ALREADY A GRADED WITH EXPERT FEEDBACK
|NEW AND REVISED
1. What is a primary concern of behaviorism, according to John Watson?: Identi-fying the
relationship between environmental stimuli and behavior
2. What is measured by the paper folding test?: Spatial imagery
3. Which concept supports the paired-associate learning results?: Conceptual peg hypothesis
4. Which component of Broadbent's flow diagram of the mind blocks unattend-ed
messages?: Filter
5. What is mental imagery?: The ability to recreate sensory information without physical stimuli
6. Which evidence disproves Aristotle's assertion that "thought is impossible without
an image"?: People who cannot visualize images are still capable of thinking.
7. Which stage of Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory does an individual begin to
understand mathematical reasoning?: Concrete Operational
8. Which term describes a child's tendency to fixate on just one aspect of a
problem or object, according to Piaget?: Centration
9. Which stage in Piaget's Theory of Cognitive Development is represented by a
child's ability to mentally represent objects and events with words and images?:
Preoperational
10. Which kind of intelligence reflects abilities drawn from experience?: Crystalized
11. What is a component of psychosocial development?: Personality
12. Which mental framework is used in learning, according to Piaget?: Schemas
13. Which cortex of the frontal lobe is activated when someone determines whether
another person appears to be physically attractive?: Frontal cortex
14. What is the electrical impulse fired down the axon of a neuron?: Action potential
15. Which part of a neuron transports an electrical signal?: Axon
16. A child reads the following incorrect sentence: "The car was traveling down the hills
were beautiful." Which cognitive process illustrates the garden path model of parsing?: The
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child changes their mind from the subject being the car to the hills.
17. A student reads these two sentences: A dog was running. It slipped and fell. Which
thought process is an example of an anaphoric inference?: The student infers that the word "it"
refers to the dog.
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