WGU D570 Objective Assessment Latest Update

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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