WGU D570 COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY OA EXAM 3 COMPLETE ACTUAL EXAM REAL QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (CORRECT VERIFIED ANSWERS) A NEW UPDATED VERSION

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A traveler can attend to what the hotel's concierge says about lunch options
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ubased on how loudly they are speaking, while disregarding other verbal co
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mmunications happening in the noisy lobby. How is Broadbent's model of a
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ttention used in this scenario? - u u u u u


uANS ✓The traveler uses filtering to focus on the lunch options over the lobby noi
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A person went on a trip to the ocean. Which example shows the concept of a
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ies for this scenario? -
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uANS ✓The person remembers jumping in the waves and the outdoor temperatur
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e that day.
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How does the generation effect relate to attention in a paired-
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associate task? - u u


ANS ✓Having participants engage in word completion focused attention longer o
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n each word pair, compared to shallow word processing.
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Which stimuli are remembered best in a long-
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term memory task according to Nairne's evolutionary theory of encoding? -
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uANS ✓Stimuli judged as useful for providing protection
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Which example shows the difference between the standard model of consol
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idation and the multiple trace model of consolidation regarding encoding e
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pisodic memories about a trip to a lake? -
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uANS ✓The standard model of consolidation argues that the hippocampus is invol
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ved only in the early development of lake trip memories, but the multiple trace m
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odel argues that the hippocampus remains active in long-term trip memories.
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What has research determined about the association between neutral lang
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uage r profanity and enhanced memory? -
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ANS ✓arousing words that reference profanity or explicit content are more mem
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orable than neutral words u u u




Which example demonstrates the application of Bartlett's repeated reprod
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uction when a student is tested on course content? -
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ANS ✓A student discusses the content in their study guide four times, then five ti
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mes, daily for two days before a test to concisely recall the information.
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Which example demonstrates the Proust effect? -
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ANS ✓A person smells freshly chopped wood and recalls a cabin vacation with th
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eir family.
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which significant findings did the "war of ghosts" experiment demonstrate
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regarding the effect of repeated reproduction on recall? -
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uANS ✓Increased time passage led to greater inaccuracies and omissions in recall
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of the stories based on cultural context
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Which factor affects the accuracy and reliability of eyewitness testimony? -
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ANS ✓Eyewitnesses may not see all aspects of a given incident
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What was the source of the imagery debate? -
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ANS ✓Whether imagery is spatial or propositional
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Which aspect of lifespan development examines creativity? - ANS ✓cognitive
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What is an example of lexical priming? -
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uANS ✓a student is able to determine the meaning of a word after recently encoun
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tering a similar word u u u




What does the term in-attentional blindness suggest? -
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ANS ✓A person fails to notice stimuli when their attention is focused elsewhere
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What determines an individual's chronotype? -
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ANS ✓The genes they inherit from both parents
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How does methadone affect opioid withdrawal? -
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ANS ✓It decreases the severity of the symptoms
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An engineer notices a colleague's leaking cup and then thinks about how pa
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per degrades and applies this observation to a design for planter pots that l
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eave no carbon footprint. Which method does the engineer apply to solve t
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he problem of designing their product in this scenario? -
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u ANS ✓The engineer applied analogical reasoning that considers semantic knowle
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dge and observations of how others solve problems while designing their product
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A group is asked to solve a complex puzzle by first stating its complex rules.
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Then later, the puzzle is re-
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explained more simply, leading to a higher rate of success. How would und
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erstanding the aspects of reasoning affect perception of the problem? -
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ANS ✓By considering how context of presentation influences judgment
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Which statement explains why it is possible to juggle while thinking about
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a future vacation? -
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ANS ✓A person can think clearly about the vacation if they are an expert juggler
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While preparing for a quiz, a student commits key terms to long-
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term memory by associating those terms to meaningful moments in their li
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fe. How does this practice help the student memorize the terms? -
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uANS ✓It employs the technique of elaborative rehearsal
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A person is walking and talking with a friend in the woods. How does the vi
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suospatial sketch pad differ from the phonological loop according to Badde
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ley's model of working memory? -
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uANS ✓The visuospatial sketch pad holds information about potential hazards, w
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hereas the phonological loop holds information related to the friend's words.
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A person recalls a fond childhood memory after walking past a garden of fr
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agrant roses. Which type of memory is demonstrated in this scenario? -
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ANS ✓Autobiographical memory
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What was John Watson known for? - ANS ✓contributions to Behaviorism
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What was Jean Piaget known for? -
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ANS ✓Creating the Stages of Cognitive development
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What was Alexander Huth known for? - ANS ✓contributions to brain mapping
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What was Stephen Kosslyn known for? - ANS ✓contributions to perception
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What was Noam Chomsky known for? -
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ANS ✓contributions to language acquisition device (LAD)
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What is the mind's central role? -
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ANS ✓determining our various mental abilities such as perception, attention, me
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mory, emotion, language, deciding, thinking, and reasoning.
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ANS ✓study of mental processes, which includes determining the characteristics
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and properties of the mind and how it operates. Focuses on the basic mechanisms
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of the mind.
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Who conducted on of the first experiments of Cognitive Psychology in 1868,
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11 years before the founding of the 1st laboratory of scientific psychology?
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- ANS ✓Franciscus Donders
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What was Donder's Pioneering Experiment? -
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ANS ✓How long it takes to make decisions
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What cannot be measured directly, but must be inferred from behavior? -
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ANS ✓Mental responses
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How long it takes to respond to presentation of a stimulus -
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ANS ✓reaction time
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reacting to the presence or absence of a single stimulus -
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uANS ✓Simple Reaction Time
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time to respond to one of two or more stimuli. Response to one stimulus an
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d a different response to another stimuli. - ANS ✓Choice reaction time
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Who founded the first laboratory of scientific psychology? -
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ANS ✓Wilhelm Wundt
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our overall experience determined by combining basic elements of experie
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nce - ANS ✓sensations
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all basic sensations involved in creating experience -
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ANS ✓periodic table of elements
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approach to psychology explained perception as the adding up of small ele
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mentary units called sensations - ANS ✓structuralism
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