COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
ASSESSMENT WGU D570 ACTUAL EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS TESTED AND
APPROVED
Semanticization of Remote Memories -- ANSWER--A child remembers being
taught how to draw a lion in a classroom with blue walls and a space-themed
carpet.
Episodic and Personal Semantic Memories Interaction -- ANSWER--A person
is building a bookshelf and remembers the last one they built was unsteady and
kept falling, so now they build the bookshelf on a level surface.
Expert-Induced Amnesia -- ANSWER--The artist responds, 'I don't know
exactly. I do not think about it. I just know how to do it when I do it.'
Priming Example -- ANSWER--Kelvin smells pizza while driving through the
city and then has an intense craving for pizza later that night when thinking of
what to order for dinner.
Effective Encoding Method -- ANSWER--Repeating and then associating song
lyrics with the words of a favorite poem.
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,Memory Retrieval Matching -- ANSWER--Going back to a childhood
homeland and recalling more details of an old memory.
Nader's Rat Experiment -- ANSWER--The possibility that retrieved memories
can become fragile upon retrieval.
Recalling Information from Long-Term Memory -- ANSWER--Being presented
with six nouns, then remembering three of them hours later because you saw
images of those items in a store window that morning.
Measuring Autobiographical Memory -- ANSWER--Measuring brain activity
when a participant sees their cat in a set of random cat images.
Syntactic coordination -- ANSWER--It helps people coordinate their
grammatical statements during conversation.
Subdomain of cognition describing solving problems of information overload --
ANSWER--Attention.
Specialized area of the temporal lobe for identifying familiar faces --
ANSWER--Fusiform face area.
Example of localization of function in the brain -- ANSWER--An area in the
temporal lobe is responsible for recognizing faces.
Lobe integrating sensory information to guide behavior -- ANSWER--Frontal.
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,Neurons responding to specific visual properties -- ANSWER--Feature
detectors.
Lobe of the brain associated with facial recognition, object recognition, and
language acquisition -- ANSWER--Temporal.
Lexicon -- ANSWER--Refers to a person's knowledge of what words mean,
how they sound, and how they are used in relation to other words.
Given-new contract -- ANSWER--Information that the listener already knows.
Example of lexical ambiguity -- ANSWER--The word 'light' has more than one
meaning.
Word segmentation -- ANSWER--It helps them recognize individual words
within continuous speech.
Lexical Priming -- ANSWER--The child processes the word 'car' quickly
because it is related to 'driver.'
Control Process in Memory -- ANSWER--Repeating the store's name for over a
minute to remember it later.
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, Sensory Memory to Short-Term Memory -- ANSWER--A person reads a phone
number and repeats it to remember it.
Central Executive Attention -- ANSWER--Focusing on the variety of pets in a
pet store to remember how affordable they were later.
Chunking in Memory -- ANSWER--By chunking the numbers into sets and
associating those sets with meaningful information.
Constraint-based approach -- ANSWER--By parsing sentences and not only
using syntactic influences.
Spatial representations -- ANSWER--Held in a specific location.
Propositional representations -- ANSWER--Formed as an equation or statement.
Visual cortex organization -- ANSWER--As a topographic map.
Pegword technique By placing objects with a concrete word.
Wundt's theoretical approach -- ANSWER--Structuralism.
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ASSESSMENT WGU D570 ACTUAL EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS TESTED AND
APPROVED
Semanticization of Remote Memories -- ANSWER--A child remembers being
taught how to draw a lion in a classroom with blue walls and a space-themed
carpet.
Episodic and Personal Semantic Memories Interaction -- ANSWER--A person
is building a bookshelf and remembers the last one they built was unsteady and
kept falling, so now they build the bookshelf on a level surface.
Expert-Induced Amnesia -- ANSWER--The artist responds, 'I don't know
exactly. I do not think about it. I just know how to do it when I do it.'
Priming Example -- ANSWER--Kelvin smells pizza while driving through the
city and then has an intense craving for pizza later that night when thinking of
what to order for dinner.
Effective Encoding Method -- ANSWER--Repeating and then associating song
lyrics with the words of a favorite poem.
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,Memory Retrieval Matching -- ANSWER--Going back to a childhood
homeland and recalling more details of an old memory.
Nader's Rat Experiment -- ANSWER--The possibility that retrieved memories
can become fragile upon retrieval.
Recalling Information from Long-Term Memory -- ANSWER--Being presented
with six nouns, then remembering three of them hours later because you saw
images of those items in a store window that morning.
Measuring Autobiographical Memory -- ANSWER--Measuring brain activity
when a participant sees their cat in a set of random cat images.
Syntactic coordination -- ANSWER--It helps people coordinate their
grammatical statements during conversation.
Subdomain of cognition describing solving problems of information overload --
ANSWER--Attention.
Specialized area of the temporal lobe for identifying familiar faces --
ANSWER--Fusiform face area.
Example of localization of function in the brain -- ANSWER--An area in the
temporal lobe is responsible for recognizing faces.
Lobe integrating sensory information to guide behavior -- ANSWER--Frontal.
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,Neurons responding to specific visual properties -- ANSWER--Feature
detectors.
Lobe of the brain associated with facial recognition, object recognition, and
language acquisition -- ANSWER--Temporal.
Lexicon -- ANSWER--Refers to a person's knowledge of what words mean,
how they sound, and how they are used in relation to other words.
Given-new contract -- ANSWER--Information that the listener already knows.
Example of lexical ambiguity -- ANSWER--The word 'light' has more than one
meaning.
Word segmentation -- ANSWER--It helps them recognize individual words
within continuous speech.
Lexical Priming -- ANSWER--The child processes the word 'car' quickly
because it is related to 'driver.'
Control Process in Memory -- ANSWER--Repeating the store's name for over a
minute to remember it later.
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, Sensory Memory to Short-Term Memory -- ANSWER--A person reads a phone
number and repeats it to remember it.
Central Executive Attention -- ANSWER--Focusing on the variety of pets in a
pet store to remember how affordable they were later.
Chunking in Memory -- ANSWER--By chunking the numbers into sets and
associating those sets with meaningful information.
Constraint-based approach -- ANSWER--By parsing sentences and not only
using syntactic influences.
Spatial representations -- ANSWER--Held in a specific location.
Propositional representations -- ANSWER--Formed as an equation or statement.
Visual cortex organization -- ANSWER--As a topographic map.
Pegword technique By placing objects with a concrete word.
Wundt's theoretical approach -- ANSWER--Structuralism.
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