WGU D570 COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY
ASSESSMENT GUIDE WITH
FREQUENTLY USED TERMS AND
EXPLANATION||LATEST UPDATE||
Syntactic coordination -CORRECTANSWER It helps people coordinate their
grammatical statements during conversation.
Constraint-based approach -CORRECTANSWER By parsing sentences and not only
using syntactic influences.
Spatial representations -CORRECTANSWER Held in a specific location.
Propositional representations -CORRECTANSWER Formed as an equation or
statement.
Visual cortex organization -CORRECTANSWER As a topographic map.
Pegword technique -CORRECTANSWER By placing objects with a concrete word.
Wundt's theoretical approach -CORRECTANSWER Structuralism.
Second stage of Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory -CORRECTANSWER
Preoperational.
Theory developed by Piaget -CORRECTANSWER Four Stage Theory.
Fluid intelligence -CORRECTANSWER Defined as information processing abilities.
Aspect of lifespan development examining language -CORRECTANSWER Cognitive.
Subdomain of cognition describing solving problems of information overload -
CORRECTANSWER Attention.
Specialized area of the temporal lobe for identifying familiar faces -CORRECTANSWER
Fusiform face area.
Example of localization of function in the brain -CORRECTANSWER An area in the
temporal lobe is responsible for recognizing faces.
Lobe integrating sensory information to guide behavior -CORRECTANSWER Frontal.
, Neurons responding to specific visual properties -CORRECTANSWER Feature
detectors.
Lobe of the brain associated with facial recognition, object recognition, and language
acquisition -CORRECTANSWER Temporal.
Lexicon -CORRECTANSWER 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 -CORRECTANSWER Information that the listener already knows.
Example of lexical ambiguity -CORRECTANSWER The word 'light' has more than one
meaning.
Word segmentation -CORRECTANSWER It helps them recognize individual words
within continuous speech.
Lexical Priming -CORRECTANSWER The child processes the word 'car' quickly
because it is related to 'driver.'
Control Process in Memory -CORRECTANSWER Repeating the store's name for over
a minute to remember it later.
Sensory Memory to Short-Term Memory -CORRECTANSWER A person reads a phone
number and repeats it to remember it.
Central Executive Attention -CORRECTANSWER Focusing on the variety of pets in a
pet store to remember how affordable they were later.
Chunking in Memory -CORRECTANSWER By chunking the numbers into sets and
associating those sets with meaningful information.
Semanticization of Remote Memories -CORRECTANSWER 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 -CORRECTANSWER 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 -CORRECTANSWER 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 -CORRECTANSWER 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.
ASSESSMENT GUIDE WITH
FREQUENTLY USED TERMS AND
EXPLANATION||LATEST UPDATE||
Syntactic coordination -CORRECTANSWER It helps people coordinate their
grammatical statements during conversation.
Constraint-based approach -CORRECTANSWER By parsing sentences and not only
using syntactic influences.
Spatial representations -CORRECTANSWER Held in a specific location.
Propositional representations -CORRECTANSWER Formed as an equation or
statement.
Visual cortex organization -CORRECTANSWER As a topographic map.
Pegword technique -CORRECTANSWER By placing objects with a concrete word.
Wundt's theoretical approach -CORRECTANSWER Structuralism.
Second stage of Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory -CORRECTANSWER
Preoperational.
Theory developed by Piaget -CORRECTANSWER Four Stage Theory.
Fluid intelligence -CORRECTANSWER Defined as information processing abilities.
Aspect of lifespan development examining language -CORRECTANSWER Cognitive.
Subdomain of cognition describing solving problems of information overload -
CORRECTANSWER Attention.
Specialized area of the temporal lobe for identifying familiar faces -CORRECTANSWER
Fusiform face area.
Example of localization of function in the brain -CORRECTANSWER An area in the
temporal lobe is responsible for recognizing faces.
Lobe integrating sensory information to guide behavior -CORRECTANSWER Frontal.
, Neurons responding to specific visual properties -CORRECTANSWER Feature
detectors.
Lobe of the brain associated with facial recognition, object recognition, and language
acquisition -CORRECTANSWER Temporal.
Lexicon -CORRECTANSWER 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 -CORRECTANSWER Information that the listener already knows.
Example of lexical ambiguity -CORRECTANSWER The word 'light' has more than one
meaning.
Word segmentation -CORRECTANSWER It helps them recognize individual words
within continuous speech.
Lexical Priming -CORRECTANSWER The child processes the word 'car' quickly
because it is related to 'driver.'
Control Process in Memory -CORRECTANSWER Repeating the store's name for over
a minute to remember it later.
Sensory Memory to Short-Term Memory -CORRECTANSWER A person reads a phone
number and repeats it to remember it.
Central Executive Attention -CORRECTANSWER Focusing on the variety of pets in a
pet store to remember how affordable they were later.
Chunking in Memory -CORRECTANSWER By chunking the numbers into sets and
associating those sets with meaningful information.
Semanticization of Remote Memories -CORRECTANSWER 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 -CORRECTANSWER 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 -CORRECTANSWER 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 -CORRECTANSWER 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.
