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WGU D570 COGNITIVE PSYCHOLOGY OBJECTIVE
ASSESSMENT FINAL EXAM VERSION 1 NEWEST
2025/2026 COMPLETE 200 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
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A teenager's car won't start because the battery is drained after leaving the headlights on overnight. He realizes he needs jumper cables after recalling a childhood memory of his parents jump-starting the family car after the battery died. Which recognition and memory retrieval processes were involved in this problem-solving? - ANSWER-Noticing, mapping, and applying
Which example demonstrates Newell and Simon's approach to problem solving? - ANSWER-A person planning an event makes a list of to-dos and begins working on one task at a time until they are all completed
Which example demonstrates the importance of how a problem statement is presented for effective problem solving? - ANSWER-A person reads a prompt for an essay question and notices that the teacher used certain language, which helped the person eliminate incorrect answers.
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A student started a new club for their school and is thinking of ways to increase participation. Which scenario is based on the student's use of analogical transfer? - ANSWER-The student uses colorful flyers to advertise the club because they remember that this strategy previously led to increased school voting.
A musician is having a difficult time composing a new song. They spend a week camping alone in the mountains, completing the song while in the wilderness. How can the musician's solitude contribute to this creativity and solve the problem? - ANSWER-The musician could avoid distractions and find space to think, allowing them to generate new ideas.
What is the relationship between open monitoring meditation and creativity? - ANSWER-Open monitoring meditation is associated with enhanced creativity because it causes greater activation of the default mode network.
A basketball coach is judging two potential players for recruitment and presumes that the taller athlete is more talented than the shorter one.What thought process does the coach utilize? - ANSWER-A stereotype about height and performance
A first-year university student readily makes new friends with their engineering classmates. The student assumes that all engineers must be 2 / 4
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outgoing like their classmates. How does this case demonstrate misuse of the representativeness heuristic? - ANSWER-The student shows a bias involving a small sample of the population.
Some states apply rules such as "if a citizen reaches the age of 16, then they may obtain a driver's license." how does deductive reasoning govern such rules? - ANSWER-by applying permission schemas
Which conclusion is drawn from performance on conditional reasoning tasks, such as the Watson four-card problem? - ANSWER-Performance improves when problems are stated in real-world terms
Why do humans naturally gravitate toward using the oblique effect when constructing our own environments? - ANSWER-Because horizontals and verticals occur more frequently in the natural world
How do intentions influence mirror neurons? - ANSWER-Mirror neurons address the cause of actions, and respond with varying degrees of activity based on intentions and context.
A community construction project is proposed in two different ways to an environmentally conscious audience. Group A is told that only 20% of the trees will be torn down, while group B is told that 80% of the trees will be saved. Which statement accurately describes the groups' anticipated responses to the community project, based on the 3 / 4
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principles of the framing effect? - ANSWER-Group B is more likely to favor the project since the focus is on retention and gain of 80% of the trees, rather than the 20% loss of trees.
A student is in a study lounge watching a video for a class and can fuly focus on the video despite people chatting in the background and a clock loudly ticking. How does the student process different stimuli in order to focus on the desired task? - ANSWER-The student filters stimuli through the cocktail party effect.
A person plans to attend a reception later that night and needs to select an out for the event. Which statement demonstrates an automatic decision for the person? - ANSWER-They quickly decide on an outfit they typically wear to events without being consciously aware that they selected it.
How did strayer and johnston's research influence the study of attention? - ANSWER-By demonstrating that both attention and response time are negatively impacted by talking on a mobile device while driving
A researcher presents a video of a street intersection and asks that participants count how many people walked through the intersection.In the video, a limousine passes through the intersection. Which example would demonstrated in-attentional blindness? - ANSWER-
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