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WGU D570 COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY EXAM
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A traveler can attend to what the hotel's concierge says about lunch options based on how loudly they are speaking, while disregarding other verbal communications happening in the noisy lobby. How is Broadbent's model of attention used in this scenario? - ANS ✓The traveler uses filtering to focus on the lunch options over the lobby noise A person went on a trip to the ocean. Which example shows the concept of autobiographical memory as an integration of episodic and semantic memories for this scenario? - ANS ✓The person remembers jumping in the waves and the outdoor temperature that day.How does the generation effect relate to attention in a paired-associate task? - ANS ✓Having participants engage in word completion focused attention longer on each word pair, compared to shallow word processing.Which stimuli are remembered best in a long-term memory task according to Nairne's evolutionary theory of encoding? - ANS ✓Stimuli judged as useful for providing protection Which example shows the difference between the standard model of consolidation and the multiple trace model of consolidation regarding encoding episodic memories about a trip to a lake? - ANS ✓The standard model of consolidation argues that the hippocampus is involved only in the early development of lake trip memories, but the multiple trace model argues that the hippocampus remains active in long-term trip memories.What has research determined about the association between neutral language r profanity and enhanced memory? - ANS ✓arousing words that reference profanity or explicit content are more memorable than neutral words
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2 WGU Which example demonstrates the application of Bartlett's repeated reproduction when a student is tested on course content? - ANS ✓A student discusses the content in their study guide four times, then five times, daily for two days before a test to concisely recall the information.Which example demonstrates the Proust effect? - ANS ✓A person smells freshly chopped wood and recalls a cabin vacation with their family.which significant findings did the "war of ghosts" experiment demonstrate regarding the effect of repeated reproduction on recall? - ANS ✓Increased time passage led to greater inaccuracies and omissions in recall of the stories based on cultural context Which factor affects the accuracy and reliability of eyewitness testimony? - ANS ✓Eyewitnesses may not see all aspects of a given incident What was the source of the imagery debate? - ANS ✓Whether imagery is spatial or propositional Which aspect of lifespan development examines creativity? - ANS ✓cognitive What is an example of lexical priming? - ANS ✓a student is able to determine the meaning of a word after recently encountering a similar word What does the term in-attentional blindness suggest? - ANS ✓A person fails to notice stimuli when their attention is focused elsewhere What determines an individual's chronotype? - ANS ✓The genes they inherit from both parents How does methadone affect opioid withdrawal? - ANS ✓It decreases the severity of the symptoms An engineer notices a colleague's leaking cup and then thinks about how paper degrades and applies this observation to a design for planter pots that leave no carbon footprint. Which method does the engineer apply to solve the problem of designing their product in this scenario? - ANS ✓The engineer applied analogical reasoning that considers semantic knowledge and observations of how others solve problems while designing their product.A group is asked to solve a complex puzzle by first stating its complex rules.Then later, the puzzle is re-explained more simply, leading to a higher rate
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3 WGU of success. How would understanding the aspects of reasoning affect perception of the problem? - ANS ✓By considering how context of presentation influences judgment Which statement explains why it is possible to juggle while thinking about a future vacation? - ANS ✓A person can think clearly about the vacation if they are an expert juggler While preparing for a quiz, a student commits key terms to long-term memory by associating those terms to meaningful moments in their life.How does this practice help the student memorize the terms? - ANS ✓It employs the technique of elaborative rehearsal A person is walking and talking with a friend in the woods. How does the visuospatial sketch pad differ from the phonological loop according to Baddeley's model of working memory? - ANS ✓The visuospatial sketch pad holds information about potential hazards, whereas the phonological loop holds information related to the friend's words.A person recalls a fond childhood memory after walking past a garden of fragrant roses. Which type of memory is demonstrated in this scenario? - ANS ✓Autobiographical memory What was John Watson known for? - ANS ✓contributions to Behaviorism What was Jean Piaget known for? - ANS ✓Creating the Stages of Cognitive development What was Alexander Huth known for? - ANS ✓contributions to brain mapping What was Stephen Kosslyn known for? - ANS ✓contributions to perception What was Noam Chomsky known for? - ANS ✓contributions to language acquisition device (LAD) What is the mind's central role? - ANS ✓determining our various mental abilities such as perception, attention, memory, emotion, language, deciding, thinking, and reasoning.Cognitive psychology - ANS ✓study of mental processes, which includes determining the characteristics and properties of the mind and how it operates.Focuses on the basic mechanisms of the mind.
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4 WGU Who conducted on of the first experiments of Cognitive Psychology in 1868, 11 years before the founding of the 1st laboratory of scientific psychology? - ANS ✓Franciscus Donders What was Donder's Pioneering Experiment? - ANS ✓How long it takes to make decisions What cannot be measured directly, but must be inferred from behavior? - ANS ✓Mental responses How long it takes to respond to presentation of a stimulus - ANS ✓reaction time reacting to the presence or absence of a single stimulus - ANS ✓Simple Reaction Time time to respond to one of two or more stimuli. Response to one stimulus and a different response to another stimuli. - ANS ✓Choice reaction time Who founded the first laboratory of scientific psychology? - ANS ✓Wilhelm Wundt our overall experience determined by combining basic elements of experience - ANS ✓sensations all basic sensations involved in creating experience - ANS ✓periodic table of elements approach to psychology explained perception as the adding up of small elementary units called sensations - ANS ✓structuralism procedure used by early psychologists in which trained participants described their experiences and thought processes in response to stimuli - ANS ✓analytic introspection What was Hermann Ebbinghaus known for? - ANS ✓determining nature of memory and forgetting Original time to learn minus time to relearn. determined magnitude of memory left from initial learning. - ANS ✓savings WGU D570
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