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WGU D570 Objective Assessment (Latest Update) Cognitive Psychology | Qs & As| Grade A| 100% Correct (Verified Answers)
Question 1: What is measured by the paper folding test?
CORRECT ANSWER : Spatial Imagery
Question 2: What is mental imagery?
CORRECT ANSWER : The ability to recreate sensory
information without physical stimuli
Question 3: What is a component of psychosocial development?
CORRECT ANSWER : Personality
Question 4: A child reads the following incorrect sentence: "The car was traveling down the hills were beautiful." Which cognitive process illustrates casual inference?
CORRECT ANSWER : The child infers that the hills being
beautiful are caused by the motion of the moving car
Question 5: Which conversation between two students
demonstrates the process of entrainment?
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CORRECT ANSWER : The students both start speaking loudly
and gesturing.
Question 6: Which cortex of the frontal lobe is activated when
someone determines whether another person appears to be physically attractive?
CORRECT ANSWER : Frontal Cortex
Question 7: What is the electrical impulse fired down the axon
of a neuron?
CORRECT ANSWER : Action Potential
Question 8: Which part of a neuron transports an electrical
signal?
CORRECT ANSWER : Axon
Question 9: Which types of tasks have revealed cognitive
deficits in people with a substance abuse disorder?
CORRECT ANSWER : Working Memory Tests
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Question 10: Which example shows how sensory memory
results in the persistence of vision when watching fireworks?
CORRECT ANSWER : Fireworks appear as falling trails of light
due to iconic memories lasting fractions of a second.
Question 11: Which explanation shows how multiple forms of
memory would contribute to effective execution of a mental math problem?
CORRECT ANSWER : Numbers are held in short-term memory
and manipulations are conducted on the numbers in working memory when solving the math problem.
Question 12: Which scenario exemplifies how the articulatory
rehearsal process contributes to a student's short-term memory for course lecture material, according to Baddeley's model?
CORRECT ANSWER : The student repeats silently what their
instructor has said before writing it down.
Question 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?
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CORRECT ANSWER : The episodic buffer connects with long-
term memory of the actors' faces and names, bringing content into working memory.
Question 14: How does activity-silent working memory help
performance on mental rotation problems?
CORRECT ANSWER : Strengthening of connections between
neurons helps performance on mental rotation problems
Question 15: How is the primacy effect related to attention for a
set of words presented sequentially?
CORRECT ANSWER : The first word presented receives the
persons full attention.
Question 16: Which example shows Westmacott and
Moscovitch's concept of autobiographically significant semantic memories?
CORRECT ANSWER : Person recalls the name of the actor that
they saw in the airport years ago.
Question 17: A person is studying a list of types of fish for a
wildlife test that will occur in one week. Which example