WGU D570 Objective Assessment Review (Latest 2025/ 2026 Update) Cognitive Psychology | Qs & As| Grade A| 100% Correct (Verified Answers) What is measured by the paper folding test? - ANSWER Spatial Imagery What is mental imagery? - ANSWER The ability to recreate sensory information without physical stimuli What is a component of psychosocial development? - ANSWER Personality A child reads the following incorrect sentence: "The car was traveling down the hills were beautiful." Which cognitive process illustrates casual inference? - ANSWER The child infers that the hills being beautiful are caused by the motion of the moving car 1 / 4
Which conversation between two students demonstrates the process of entrainment? - ANSWER The students both start speaking loudly and gesturing.Which cortex of the frontal lobe is activated when someone determines whether another person appears to be physically attractive? - ANSWER Frontal Cortex What is the the electrical impulse fired down the axon of a neuron? - ANSWER Action Potential Which part of a neuron transports an electrical signal? - ANSWER Axon Which types of tasks have revealed cognitive deficits in people with a substance abuse disorder? - ANSWER Working Memory Tests 2 / 4
Which example shows how sensory memory results in the persistence of vision when watching fireworks? - ANSWER Fireworks appear as falling trails of light due to iconic memories lasting fractions of a second.Which explanation shows how multiple forms of memory would contribute to effective execution of a mental math problem? - ANSWER Numbers are held in short-term memory and manipulations are conducted on the numbers in working memory when solving the math problem.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? - ANSWER The student repeats silently what their instructor has said before writing it down.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? - ANSWER The episodic buffer connects with long-term memory of the actors' faces and names, bringing content into working memory. 3 / 4
How does activity-silent working memory help performance on mental rotation problems? - ANSWER Strengthening of connections between neurons helps performance on mental rotation problems How is the primacy effect related to attention for a set of words presented sequentially? - ANSWER The first word presented receives the persons full attention.Which example shows Westmacott and Moscovitch's concept of autobiographically significant semantic memories? - ANSWER Person recalls the name of the actor that they saw in the airport years ago.A person is studying a list of types of fish for a wildlife test that will occur in one week. Which example illustrates the combined long-term memory encoding strategies of visual imagery and organization? - ANSWER The person imagines each fish on a tree structure corresponding to categories of fish types.
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