EPPP PRACTICE EXAM SOCIAL
PSYCHOLOGY CERTIFICATION
EVALUATION 2026 LATEST QUESTIONS
AND ACCURATE ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥All of the following are important components of emotional
intelligence except the ability to:
A) repress emotions
B) regulate emotions
C) perceive emotions
D) express and understand emotions. Answer: A) repress emotions
⩥Determination of competence to stand trial is a
A) decision made by a jury
B) legal issue decided by the court
C) clinical issue decided by the evaluator
D) decision made by the court and the evaluator. Answer: B) legal issue
decided by the court
⩥Boys are most likely to show adverse effects from their parents divorce
through:
A)withdrawal
,B) increased reliance on siblings for emotional support
C) poor academic achievement
D) problems with peers. Answer: A) withdrawal
⩥A mother and her infant are alone in a room. A stranger enters and the
mother leaves. When the mother returns, the infant immediately begins
playing, apparently happily. Which attachment classification is most
appropriate?
A) disorganized
B) anxious resistant
C) avoidant
D) secure. Answer: D) secure
⩥When a psychologists institutional rules are in conflict with ethics
codes published by the American and Canadian psychological
associations, the psychologist is:
A) required to proactively seek resolution of the conflict
B) allowed to choose between the conflicting directives in whatever way
the psychologist thinks is reasonable
C) obliged to place adherence to the ethical standards ahead of all other
considerations
D) permitted to follow the institutional rules for most cases. Answer: A)
required to proactively seek resolution of the conflict
,⩥A third party payer denies a psychologists recommendation for
extending a clients treatment on the basis of a lack of medical necessity
and requests that this disagreement not be disclosed to the client. The
psychologists most ethical course of action is:
A)disclose the disagreement to the client
B) adherence to the third party payers instruction
C) not disclose the agreement but appeal the decision
D) explain to the client that treatment must be terminated due to a lack
of medical necessity. Answer: A) disclose the disagreement to the client
⩥An advantage of the classical test theory over the item response theory
model is that classical test theory:
A) required relatively smaller sample sizes for stable item statistics
B) provides an estimate of how an item performs at different levels of
the construct being tested
C) explicitly models the likelihood of guessing the behavior
D) provides item statistics that are independent of the distribution of
ability in the sample. Answer: D) provides item statistics that are
independent of the distribution of ability in the sample
⩥On measures of sex-role attitudes, comparisons between children
whose mothers are employed outside the home and children whose
mothers are not employed outside the home have revealed that:
A)both the sons and
, B) there is little difference in sex-role attitudes exhibited by the children
in these two types of households
C) only daughters of externally employed mothers are less likely than
their counterparts to exhibit traditional sex-role attitudes
D) only sons of externally employed mothers are less likely than their
counterparts to exhibit traditional sex-role attitudes. Answer: A) both the
sons daughters of externally employed mothers are less likely than their
counterparts to exhibit traditional sex-role attitudes
⩥A child uses the name of the family dog to refer to the neighbors dog.
This illustrates:
A) overextension
B) overregularization
C)under extension
D) fundamental attribution error. Answer: A) overextension
⩥According to the theory of worldviews proposed by Derald Wong Sue
and David Sue, western society can be characterized in terms of:
A) internal locus of control and internal locus of responsibility
B) internal locus of control and external locus of responsibility
C) external locus of control and internal locus of responsibility
D) external locus of control and external locus of responsibility. Answer:
A) internal locus of control and internal locus of responsibility (aka
power)
PSYCHOLOGY CERTIFICATION
EVALUATION 2026 LATEST QUESTIONS
AND ACCURATE ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥All of the following are important components of emotional
intelligence except the ability to:
A) repress emotions
B) regulate emotions
C) perceive emotions
D) express and understand emotions. Answer: A) repress emotions
⩥Determination of competence to stand trial is a
A) decision made by a jury
B) legal issue decided by the court
C) clinical issue decided by the evaluator
D) decision made by the court and the evaluator. Answer: B) legal issue
decided by the court
⩥Boys are most likely to show adverse effects from their parents divorce
through:
A)withdrawal
,B) increased reliance on siblings for emotional support
C) poor academic achievement
D) problems with peers. Answer: A) withdrawal
⩥A mother and her infant are alone in a room. A stranger enters and the
mother leaves. When the mother returns, the infant immediately begins
playing, apparently happily. Which attachment classification is most
appropriate?
A) disorganized
B) anxious resistant
C) avoidant
D) secure. Answer: D) secure
⩥When a psychologists institutional rules are in conflict with ethics
codes published by the American and Canadian psychological
associations, the psychologist is:
A) required to proactively seek resolution of the conflict
B) allowed to choose between the conflicting directives in whatever way
the psychologist thinks is reasonable
C) obliged to place adherence to the ethical standards ahead of all other
considerations
D) permitted to follow the institutional rules for most cases. Answer: A)
required to proactively seek resolution of the conflict
,⩥A third party payer denies a psychologists recommendation for
extending a clients treatment on the basis of a lack of medical necessity
and requests that this disagreement not be disclosed to the client. The
psychologists most ethical course of action is:
A)disclose the disagreement to the client
B) adherence to the third party payers instruction
C) not disclose the agreement but appeal the decision
D) explain to the client that treatment must be terminated due to a lack
of medical necessity. Answer: A) disclose the disagreement to the client
⩥An advantage of the classical test theory over the item response theory
model is that classical test theory:
A) required relatively smaller sample sizes for stable item statistics
B) provides an estimate of how an item performs at different levels of
the construct being tested
C) explicitly models the likelihood of guessing the behavior
D) provides item statistics that are independent of the distribution of
ability in the sample. Answer: D) provides item statistics that are
independent of the distribution of ability in the sample
⩥On measures of sex-role attitudes, comparisons between children
whose mothers are employed outside the home and children whose
mothers are not employed outside the home have revealed that:
A)both the sons and
, B) there is little difference in sex-role attitudes exhibited by the children
in these two types of households
C) only daughters of externally employed mothers are less likely than
their counterparts to exhibit traditional sex-role attitudes
D) only sons of externally employed mothers are less likely than their
counterparts to exhibit traditional sex-role attitudes. Answer: A) both the
sons daughters of externally employed mothers are less likely than their
counterparts to exhibit traditional sex-role attitudes
⩥A child uses the name of the family dog to refer to the neighbors dog.
This illustrates:
A) overextension
B) overregularization
C)under extension
D) fundamental attribution error. Answer: A) overextension
⩥According to the theory of worldviews proposed by Derald Wong Sue
and David Sue, western society can be characterized in terms of:
A) internal locus of control and internal locus of responsibility
B) internal locus of control and external locus of responsibility
C) external locus of control and internal locus of responsibility
D) external locus of control and external locus of responsibility. Answer:
A) internal locus of control and internal locus of responsibility (aka
power)
