WGU D570 COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY EXAM/STUDY
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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
GUIDE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS LATEST
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
