WGU D570 Cognitive Psychology
1. What is measured by the paper folding test?: Spatial Imagery
2. What is mental imagery?: The ability to recreate sensory information without physical stimuli
3. What is a component of psychosocial development?: Personality
4. 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
5. Which conversation between two students demonstrates the process of entrainment?: The students both
start speaking loudly and gesturing.
6. Which cortex of the frontal lobe is activated when someone determines whether another person appears to
be physically attractive?: Frontal Cortex
7. What is the the electrical impulse fired down the axon of a neuron?: Action Potential
8. Which part of a neuron transports an electrical signal?: Axon
9. Which types of tasks have revealed cognitive deficits in people with a substance abuse disorder?:
Working Memory Tests
10.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.
11.Which explanation shows how multiple forms of memory would con- tribute 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.
12.Which scenario exemplifies how the articulatory rehearsal process con- tributes to a student's short-term
memory for course lecture material, accord- ing to Baddeley's model?: The student repeats silently what their
instructor has said before writing it down.
13.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 con-
nects with long-term memory of the actors' faces and names, bringing content into working memory.
14.How does activity-silent working memory help performance on mental rotation problems?: Strengthening of
connections between neurons helps perfor- mance on mental rotation problems
15.How is the primacy effect related to attention for a set of words presented sequentially?: The first word
presented receives the persons full attention.
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16.Which example shows Westmacott and Moscovitch's concept of autobi- ographically significant semantic
memories?: Person recalls the name of the actor that they saw in the airport years ago.
17.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.
18. 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.
19.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
20.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
21.Which example reflects the impact of the self-image hypothesis?: A person remembers graduating from law
school
22.What is a primary concern of behaviorism according to John Watson?: -
Identifying the relationship between environmental stimuli and behavior
23.Which concept supports the paired-associate learning results?: Conceptu- al peg hypothesis
24.Which component of Broadbent's flow diagram of the mind blocks unat- tended messages?: Filter
25. Which evidence disproves Aristotle's assertion that "thought is impossible without an image"?: People
who cannot visualize images are still capable of thinking
26.Which stage of Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory does an individual begin to understand mathematical
reasoning?: Concrete Operational
27.Which term describes a child's tendency to fixate on just one aspect of a problem or object according to
Piaget?: Centration
28.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
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29.Which kind of intelligence reflects abilities drawn from experience?: Crys- talized
30.Which mental framework is used in learning according to Piaget?: -
Schemas
31.A child reads the following incorrect sentence: "The car was traceling down the hills were beautiful." Which
cognitive process illustrates the garden path model of parsing?: The child changes their mind from the subject being
the car to the hills
32.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
33.Why is establishing common ground important to conversations?: It aids in having an engaging discussion
34.Which property of words contributes to the word frequency effect?: how often a word is used within a
language
35.While studying in a noisy coffee shop, a student is able to focus solely on their textbook, tuning out the
surrounding conversations and background music. Which cognitive phenomenon does this scenario illustrate?:
Selective attention
36.A person is enjoying a day at the beach. They hear children playing see the ocean waves feel the warm sun
taste the salty air and smell sunscreen. Which state of consciousness is this person experiencing?: wakeful state
37.How does rotating shift work affect consciousness?: it can affect a person's sleep regulation, leading to insomnia
and fatigue.
38.Which statement describes circadian rhythm in the sleep-wake cycle and consciousness?: Circadian rhythms
regulate the sleep-wake cycle and impact alertness
39.Which test measures brain activity to determine a person's stage of sleep or sonsciousness?:
Electroencephalogram EEG
40.What does the Stroop interference task use to demonstrate a slower reaction time?: By displaying
color words in different color fonts
41.A kindergarten student is trying to solve a handheld maze. The student focuses on the last step of the maze,
causing them to miss earlier steps. What process describes why the student has a difficult time discovering the
first step required to solve the maze?: Fixation causes the student to focus too much on the last part of the maze and to
overlook important steps at the beginning
42.A teenager's car won't start because the battery is drained after leaving the headlights on overnight. He
realizes he needs jumper cables after recalling a childhood memory of his parents jump-starting the family car
after the battery
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died. Which recognition and memory retrieval processes were involved in this problem-solving?: Noticing,
mapping, and applying
43.Which example demonstrates Newell and Simon's approach to problem solving?: A person planning an event
makes a list of to-dos and begins working on one task at a time until they are all completed
44.Which example demonstrates the importance of how a problem statement is presented for effective problem
solving?: A person reads a prompt for an essay question and notices that the teacher used certain language, which helped
the person eliminate incorrect answers.
45.A student started a new club for their school and is thinking of ways to increase participation. Which
scenario is based on the student's use of
analogical transfer?: The student uses colorful flyers to advertise the club because they remember that this strategy
previously led to increased school voting.
46.A musician is having a difficult time composing a new song. They spend a week camping alone in the
mountains, completing the song while in the wilderness. How can the musician's solitude contribute to this
creativity and solve the problem?: The musician could avoid distractions and find space to think, allowing them to
generate new ideas.
47.What is the relationship between open monitoring meditation and creativ- ity?: Open monitoring meditation is
associated with enhanced creativity because it causes greater activation of the default mode network.
48.A basketball coach is judging two potential players for recruitment and presumes that the taller athlete is
more talented than the shorter one. What thought process does the coach utilize?: A stereotype about height and
perfor- mance
49.A first-year university student readily makes new friends with their engi- neering classmates. The student
assumes that all engineers must be outgoing like their classmates. How does this case demonstrate misuse of the
repre- sentativeness heuristic?: The student shows a bias involving a small sample of the population.
50.Some states apply rules such as "if a citizen reaches the age of 16, then they may obtain a driver's license."
how does deductive reasoning govern such rules?: by applying permission schemas
51.Which conclusion is drawn from performance on conditional reasoning tasks, such as the Watson four-
card problem?: Performance improves when problems are stated in real-world terms
52.Why do humans naturally gravitate toward using the oblique effect when constructing our own
environments?: Because horizontals and verticals occur more frequently in the natural world
1. What is measured by the paper folding test?: Spatial Imagery
2. What is mental imagery?: The ability to recreate sensory information without physical stimuli
3. What is a component of psychosocial development?: Personality
4. 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
5. Which conversation between two students demonstrates the process of entrainment?: The students both
start speaking loudly and gesturing.
6. Which cortex of the frontal lobe is activated when someone determines whether another person appears to
be physically attractive?: Frontal Cortex
7. What is the the electrical impulse fired down the axon of a neuron?: Action Potential
8. Which part of a neuron transports an electrical signal?: Axon
9. Which types of tasks have revealed cognitive deficits in people with a substance abuse disorder?:
Working Memory Tests
10.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.
11.Which explanation shows how multiple forms of memory would con- tribute 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.
12.Which scenario exemplifies how the articulatory rehearsal process con- tributes to a student's short-term
memory for course lecture material, accord- ing to Baddeley's model?: The student repeats silently what their
instructor has said before writing it down.
13.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 con-
nects with long-term memory of the actors' faces and names, bringing content into working memory.
14.How does activity-silent working memory help performance on mental rotation problems?: Strengthening of
connections between neurons helps perfor- mance on mental rotation problems
15.How is the primacy effect related to attention for a set of words presented sequentially?: The first word
presented receives the persons full attention.
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16.Which example shows Westmacott and Moscovitch's concept of autobi- ographically significant semantic
memories?: Person recalls the name of the actor that they saw in the airport years ago.
17.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.
18. 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.
19.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
20.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
21.Which example reflects the impact of the self-image hypothesis?: A person remembers graduating from law
school
22.What is a primary concern of behaviorism according to John Watson?: -
Identifying the relationship between environmental stimuli and behavior
23.Which concept supports the paired-associate learning results?: Conceptu- al peg hypothesis
24.Which component of Broadbent's flow diagram of the mind blocks unat- tended messages?: Filter
25. Which evidence disproves Aristotle's assertion that "thought is impossible without an image"?: People
who cannot visualize images are still capable of thinking
26.Which stage of Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory does an individual begin to understand mathematical
reasoning?: Concrete Operational
27.Which term describes a child's tendency to fixate on just one aspect of a problem or object according to
Piaget?: Centration
28.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
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29.Which kind of intelligence reflects abilities drawn from experience?: Crys- talized
30.Which mental framework is used in learning according to Piaget?: -
Schemas
31.A child reads the following incorrect sentence: "The car was traceling down the hills were beautiful." Which
cognitive process illustrates the garden path model of parsing?: The child changes their mind from the subject being
the car to the hills
32.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
33.Why is establishing common ground important to conversations?: It aids in having an engaging discussion
34.Which property of words contributes to the word frequency effect?: how often a word is used within a
language
35.While studying in a noisy coffee shop, a student is able to focus solely on their textbook, tuning out the
surrounding conversations and background music. Which cognitive phenomenon does this scenario illustrate?:
Selective attention
36.A person is enjoying a day at the beach. They hear children playing see the ocean waves feel the warm sun
taste the salty air and smell sunscreen. Which state of consciousness is this person experiencing?: wakeful state
37.How does rotating shift work affect consciousness?: it can affect a person's sleep regulation, leading to insomnia
and fatigue.
38.Which statement describes circadian rhythm in the sleep-wake cycle and consciousness?: Circadian rhythms
regulate the sleep-wake cycle and impact alertness
39.Which test measures brain activity to determine a person's stage of sleep or sonsciousness?:
Electroencephalogram EEG
40.What does the Stroop interference task use to demonstrate a slower reaction time?: By displaying
color words in different color fonts
41.A kindergarten student is trying to solve a handheld maze. The student focuses on the last step of the maze,
causing them to miss earlier steps. What process describes why the student has a difficult time discovering the
first step required to solve the maze?: Fixation causes the student to focus too much on the last part of the maze and to
overlook important steps at the beginning
42.A teenager's car won't start because the battery is drained after leaving the headlights on overnight. He
realizes he needs jumper cables after recalling a childhood memory of his parents jump-starting the family car
after the battery
, WGU D570 Cognitive Psychology
died. Which recognition and memory retrieval processes were involved in this problem-solving?: Noticing,
mapping, and applying
43.Which example demonstrates Newell and Simon's approach to problem solving?: A person planning an event
makes a list of to-dos and begins working on one task at a time until they are all completed
44.Which example demonstrates the importance of how a problem statement is presented for effective problem
solving?: A person reads a prompt for an essay question and notices that the teacher used certain language, which helped
the person eliminate incorrect answers.
45.A student started a new club for their school and is thinking of ways to increase participation. Which
scenario is based on the student's use of
analogical transfer?: The student uses colorful flyers to advertise the club because they remember that this strategy
previously led to increased school voting.
46.A musician is having a difficult time composing a new song. They spend a week camping alone in the
mountains, completing the song while in the wilderness. How can the musician's solitude contribute to this
creativity and solve the problem?: The musician could avoid distractions and find space to think, allowing them to
generate new ideas.
47.What is the relationship between open monitoring meditation and creativ- ity?: Open monitoring meditation is
associated with enhanced creativity because it causes greater activation of the default mode network.
48.A basketball coach is judging two potential players for recruitment and presumes that the taller athlete is
more talented than the shorter one. What thought process does the coach utilize?: A stereotype about height and
perfor- mance
49.A first-year university student readily makes new friends with their engi- neering classmates. The student
assumes that all engineers must be outgoing like their classmates. How does this case demonstrate misuse of the
repre- sentativeness heuristic?: The student shows a bias involving a small sample of the population.
50.Some states apply rules such as "if a citizen reaches the age of 16, then they may obtain a driver's license."
how does deductive reasoning govern such rules?: by applying permission schemas
51.Which conclusion is drawn from performance on conditional reasoning tasks, such as the Watson four-
card problem?: Performance improves when problems are stated in real-world terms
52.Why do humans naturally gravitate toward using the oblique effect when constructing our own
environments?: Because horizontals and verticals occur more frequently in the natural world
