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WGU D570 COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS 100% GUARANTEED PASS
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A traveler can attend to what the hotel's concierge says about lunch options
based on how loudly they are speaking, while disregarding other verbal
communications happening in the noisy lobby. How is Broadbent's model
of attention used in this scenario? - ANS ✓The traveler uses filtering to focus
on the lunch options over the lobby noise
A person went on a trip to the ocean. Which example shows the concept of
autobiographical memory as an integration of episodic and semantic
memories for this scenario? - ANS ✓The person remembers jumping in the
waves and the outdoor temperature that day.
How does the generation effect relate to attention in a paired-associate
task? - ANS ✓Having participants engage in word completion focused attention
longer on each word pair, compared to shallow word processing.
Which stimuli are remembered best in a long-term memory task according
to Nairne's evolutionary theory of encoding? - ANS ✓Stimuli judged as useful
for providing protection
Which example shows the difference between the standard model of
consolidation and the multiple trace model of consolidation regarding
encoding episodic memories about a trip to a lake? - ANS ✓The standard
model of consolidation argues that the hippocampus is involved only in the early
development of lake trip memories, but the multiple trace model argues that the
hippocampus remains active in long-term trip memories.
What has research determined about the association between neutral
language r profanity and enhanced memory? - ANS ✓arousing words that
reference profanity or explicit content are more memorable than neutral words
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Which example demonstrates the application of Bartlett's repeated
reproduction when a student is tested on course content? - ANS ✓A student
discusses the content in their study guide four times, then five times, daily for
two days before a test to concisely recall the information.
Which example demonstrates the Proust effect? - ANS ✓A person smells
freshly chopped wood and recalls a cabin vacation with their family.
which significant findings did the "war of ghosts" experiment demonstrate
regarding the effect of repeated reproduction on recall? - ANS ✓Increased
time passage led to greater inaccuracies and omissions in recall of the stories
based on cultural context
Which factor affects the accuracy and reliability of eyewitness testimony? -
ANS ✓Eyewitnesses may not see all aspects of a given incident
What was the source of the imagery debate? - ANS ✓Whether imagery is
spatial or propositional
Which aspect of lifespan development examines creativity? - ANS ✓cognitive
What is an example of lexical priming? - ANS ✓a student is able to determine
the meaning of a word after recently encountering a similar word
What does the term in-attentional blindness suggest? - ANS ✓A person fails
to notice stimuli when their attention is focused elsewhere
What determines an individual's chronotype? - ANS ✓The genes they inherit
from both parents
How does methadone affect opioid withdrawal? - ANS ✓It decreases the
severity of the symptoms
An engineer notices a colleague's leaking cup and then thinks about how
paper degrades and applies this observation to a design for planter pots
that leave no carbon footprint. Which method does the engineer apply to
solve the problem of designing their product in this scenario? - ANS ✓The
engineer applied analogical reasoning that considers semantic knowledge and
observations of how others solve problems while designing their product.
A group is asked to solve a complex puzzle by first stating its complex rules.
Then later, the puzzle is re-explained more simply, leading to a higher rate
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of success. How would understanding the aspects of reasoning affect
perception of the problem? - ANS ✓By considering how context of
presentation influences judgment
Which statement explains why it is possible to juggle while thinking about a
future vacation? - ANS ✓A person can think clearly about the vacation if they
are an expert juggler
While preparing for a quiz, a student commits key terms to long-term
memory by associating those terms to meaningful moments in their life.
How does this practice help the student memorize the terms? - ANS ✓It
employs the technique of elaborative rehearsal
A person is walking and talking with a friend in the woods. How does the
visuospatial sketch pad differ from the phonological loop according to
Baddeley's model of working memory? - ANS ✓The visuospatial sketch pad
holds information about potential hazards, whereas the phonological loop holds
information related to the friend's words.
A person recalls a fond childhood memory after walking past a garden of
fragrant roses. Which type of memory is demonstrated in this scenario? -
ANS ✓Autobiographical memory
What was John Watson known for? - ANS ✓contributions to Behaviorism
What was Jean Piaget known for? - ANS ✓Creating the Stages of Cognitive
development
What was Alexander Huth known for? - ANS ✓contributions to brain mapping
What was Stephen Kosslyn known for? - ANS ✓contributions to perception
What was Noam Chomsky known for? - ANS ✓contributions to language
acquisition device (LAD)
What is the mind's central role? - ANS ✓determining our various mental
abilities such as perception, attention, memory, emotion, language, deciding,
thinking, and reasoning.
Cognitive psychology - ANS ✓study of mental processes, which includes
determining the characteristics and properties of the mind and how it operates.
Focuses on the basic mechanisms of the mind.
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Who conducted on of the first experiments of Cognitive Psychology in 1868,
11 years before the founding of the 1st laboratory of scientific psychology? -
ANS ✓Franciscus Donders
What was Donder's Pioneering Experiment? - ANS ✓How long it takes to
make decisions
What cannot be measured directly, but must be inferred from behavior? -
ANS ✓Mental responses
How long it takes to respond to presentation of a stimulus - ANS ✓reaction
time
reacting to the presence or absence of a single stimulus - ANS ✓Simple
Reaction Time
time to respond to one of two or more stimuli. Response to one stimulus
and a different response to another stimuli. - ANS ✓Choice reaction time
Who founded the first laboratory of scientific psychology? - ANS ✓Wilhelm
Wundt
our overall experience determined by combining basic elements of
experience - ANS ✓sensations
all basic sensations involved in creating experience - ANS ✓periodic table of
elements
approach to psychology explained perception as the adding up of small
elementary units called sensations - ANS ✓structuralism
procedure used by early psychologists in which trained participants
described their experiences and thought processes in response to stimuli -
ANS ✓analytic introspection
What was Hermann Ebbinghaus known for? - ANS ✓determining nature of
memory and forgetting
Original time to learn minus time to relearn. determined magnitude of
memory left from initial learning. - ANS ✓savings
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WGU
WGU D570 COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT VERIFIED
SOLUTIONS 100% GUARANTEED PASS
(LATEST UPDATE)
A traveler can attend to what the hotel's concierge says about lunch options
based on how loudly they are speaking, while disregarding other verbal
communications happening in the noisy lobby. How is Broadbent's model
of attention used in this scenario? - ANS ✓The traveler uses filtering to focus
on the lunch options over the lobby noise
A person went on a trip to the ocean. Which example shows the concept of
autobiographical memory as an integration of episodic and semantic
memories for this scenario? - ANS ✓The person remembers jumping in the
waves and the outdoor temperature that day.
How does the generation effect relate to attention in a paired-associate
task? - ANS ✓Having participants engage in word completion focused attention
longer on each word pair, compared to shallow word processing.
Which stimuli are remembered best in a long-term memory task according
to Nairne's evolutionary theory of encoding? - ANS ✓Stimuli judged as useful
for providing protection
Which example shows the difference between the standard model of
consolidation and the multiple trace model of consolidation regarding
encoding episodic memories about a trip to a lake? - ANS ✓The standard
model of consolidation argues that the hippocampus is involved only in the early
development of lake trip memories, but the multiple trace model argues that the
hippocampus remains active in long-term trip memories.
What has research determined about the association between neutral
language r profanity and enhanced memory? - ANS ✓arousing words that
reference profanity or explicit content are more memorable than neutral words
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Which example demonstrates the application of Bartlett's repeated
reproduction when a student is tested on course content? - ANS ✓A student
discusses the content in their study guide four times, then five times, daily for
two days before a test to concisely recall the information.
Which example demonstrates the Proust effect? - ANS ✓A person smells
freshly chopped wood and recalls a cabin vacation with their family.
which significant findings did the "war of ghosts" experiment demonstrate
regarding the effect of repeated reproduction on recall? - ANS ✓Increased
time passage led to greater inaccuracies and omissions in recall of the stories
based on cultural context
Which factor affects the accuracy and reliability of eyewitness testimony? -
ANS ✓Eyewitnesses may not see all aspects of a given incident
What was the source of the imagery debate? - ANS ✓Whether imagery is
spatial or propositional
Which aspect of lifespan development examines creativity? - ANS ✓cognitive
What is an example of lexical priming? - ANS ✓a student is able to determine
the meaning of a word after recently encountering a similar word
What does the term in-attentional blindness suggest? - ANS ✓A person fails
to notice stimuli when their attention is focused elsewhere
What determines an individual's chronotype? - ANS ✓The genes they inherit
from both parents
How does methadone affect opioid withdrawal? - ANS ✓It decreases the
severity of the symptoms
An engineer notices a colleague's leaking cup and then thinks about how
paper degrades and applies this observation to a design for planter pots
that leave no carbon footprint. Which method does the engineer apply to
solve the problem of designing their product in this scenario? - ANS ✓The
engineer applied analogical reasoning that considers semantic knowledge and
observations of how others solve problems while designing their product.
A group is asked to solve a complex puzzle by first stating its complex rules.
Then later, the puzzle is re-explained more simply, leading to a higher rate
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of success. How would understanding the aspects of reasoning affect
perception of the problem? - ANS ✓By considering how context of
presentation influences judgment
Which statement explains why it is possible to juggle while thinking about a
future vacation? - ANS ✓A person can think clearly about the vacation if they
are an expert juggler
While preparing for a quiz, a student commits key terms to long-term
memory by associating those terms to meaningful moments in their life.
How does this practice help the student memorize the terms? - ANS ✓It
employs the technique of elaborative rehearsal
A person is walking and talking with a friend in the woods. How does the
visuospatial sketch pad differ from the phonological loop according to
Baddeley's model of working memory? - ANS ✓The visuospatial sketch pad
holds information about potential hazards, whereas the phonological loop holds
information related to the friend's words.
A person recalls a fond childhood memory after walking past a garden of
fragrant roses. Which type of memory is demonstrated in this scenario? -
ANS ✓Autobiographical memory
What was John Watson known for? - ANS ✓contributions to Behaviorism
What was Jean Piaget known for? - ANS ✓Creating the Stages of Cognitive
development
What was Alexander Huth known for? - ANS ✓contributions to brain mapping
What was Stephen Kosslyn known for? - ANS ✓contributions to perception
What was Noam Chomsky known for? - ANS ✓contributions to language
acquisition device (LAD)
What is the mind's central role? - ANS ✓determining our various mental
abilities such as perception, attention, memory, emotion, language, deciding,
thinking, and reasoning.
Cognitive psychology - ANS ✓study of mental processes, which includes
determining the characteristics and properties of the mind and how it operates.
Focuses on the basic mechanisms of the mind.
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Who conducted on of the first experiments of Cognitive Psychology in 1868,
11 years before the founding of the 1st laboratory of scientific psychology? -
ANS ✓Franciscus Donders
What was Donder's Pioneering Experiment? - ANS ✓How long it takes to
make decisions
What cannot be measured directly, but must be inferred from behavior? -
ANS ✓Mental responses
How long it takes to respond to presentation of a stimulus - ANS ✓reaction
time
reacting to the presence or absence of a single stimulus - ANS ✓Simple
Reaction Time
time to respond to one of two or more stimuli. Response to one stimulus
and a different response to another stimuli. - ANS ✓Choice reaction time
Who founded the first laboratory of scientific psychology? - ANS ✓Wilhelm
Wundt
our overall experience determined by combining basic elements of
experience - ANS ✓sensations
all basic sensations involved in creating experience - ANS ✓periodic table of
elements
approach to psychology explained perception as the adding up of small
elementary units called sensations - ANS ✓structuralism
procedure used by early psychologists in which trained participants
described their experiences and thought processes in response to stimuli -
ANS ✓analytic introspection
What was Hermann Ebbinghaus known for? - ANS ✓determining nature of
memory and forgetting
Original time to learn minus time to relearn. determined magnitude of
memory left from initial learning. - ANS ✓savings
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