EPPP Exam UPDATED ACTUAL Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
The relationship between nature and intellectual decline - CORRECT ANSWER - increase
in response time
The strongest evidence of addiction to substance - CORRECT ANSWER - Physiological
tolerance and withdrawal
The most common neuropsychological complication of AIDS - CORRECT ANSWER -
Dementia
What is the function of correction of attenuation - CORRECT ANSWER - Estimate the
correlation between two variables if one or both could be measured without error
If a research results indicated a contradictory findings to your initial hypotheses. In addition, a
moderation effects was found. Your co-worker suggested that you don't report the moderation
effects given that it is tangential to the main research question of the study. You should: -
CORRECT ANSWER - Not take your co-worker's suggestion because this will be
unethical. It conflicts with the psychologist's responsibility to report completely the results of
research project
Thordike's Law of Effects - CORRECT ANSWER - A reward tends to increase the
probability of recurrence of the response it follows.
Children's typically take their first steps around the age of? - CORRECT ANSWER - 12
months
Tonic-clonic seizures occurs most frequently in.. - CORRECT ANSWER - Grand mal
epilepsy
,Complex partial seizures occur in which part of the brain - CORRECT ANSWER -
Temporal lobe
Women who have had abortions .. - CORRECT ANSWER - the psychological
consequences are no worse than women who have chosen to continue their pregnancies and gave
birth.
Under the research on persuasion, the degree to which the receiver's initial position will change
when.... - CORRECT ANSWER - The communicator is credible; the effect will be greater
when there is a larger discrepancy between the communicator's position and the receiver's initial
position
A 10-year old boy who obtained an IQ score of 130. Two years later, he was tested with an
alternative form of the same test. Most likely, the obtained score on the second testing would be:
- CORRECT ANSWER - Less than 130
Specific deleterious effects of unpredictable nose could be reduced by... - CORRECT
ANSWER - Allowing the individual to terminate the noise if it becomes intolerable
Afferent sensory pathways - CORRECT ANSWER - Thalamus
Meta-analysis on the relationship between marital discord and child behavior problems showed
that - CORRECT ANSWER - Boys are more likely than girls to manifest an immediate
behavior problem
When interpreting and reporting test results, one should - CORRECT ANSWER - Focus
on the confidence interval of a score rather than only on the obtained score itself.
Feminist therapy - CORRECT ANSWER - - Self-disclosure by the psychologist is
specifically recommended and frequently applied.
- Egalitarian relationship b/w therapist and client
- seeing client's problems in their sociopolitical context
,- Encourage trust and respect for other women
Anxiety induced by reading about a car accident some months after having had a car accident is
best described as an instance of - CORRECT ANSWER - Mediated generalization
Intrinsic-motivational theory - CORRECT ANSWER - Predicts a decrease in productivity
as the external reward increases
Maternal employment on children's development... - CORRECT ANSWER - In families of
LOW SES, both sons and daughters of working mothers perform better on measures of cognitive
development than those of non-working mother.
Assessment centers uses a specific personnel selection method called... - CORRECT
ANSWER - Performance-based assessment
Psychoanalytic theory suggests that anxiety arises from.. - CORRECT ANSWER -A
failure of defenses to modulate excitation adequately
Diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease can be most accurately verified by - CORRECT
ANSWER - Brain biopsy
Adlerian theory conceptualizes a child's intention behind their misdemeanor as.. - CORRECT
ANSWER - To confirm an assumed disability, or to get attention, power, or revenge
In a skewed distribution with a tail extended to the left, the statistics with the highest value is... -
CORRECT ANSWER - Mode
What factors contributes to a favorable prognosis for psychotherapy? - CORRECT
ANSWER - - pre-existing client factors such as motivation to change, level of misery/ pain
, Performance of which type of activity has a positive relationship with age? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Knowledge-based judgments with no time pressure
According to classical test theory, the variance of the obtained test scores is equal to... -
CORRECT ANSWER - The sum of the true score variance and the error variance
Most effective therapeutic factor for OCD and Agoraphobia is - CORRECT ANSWER -
Prolonged exposure in vivo along with response prevention
The most frequent findings of studies on human beings with "split brain" is that.. - CORRECT
ANSWER - Certain kinds of visuospatial tasks are performed better by the right
hemisphere than the left.
Classic aging pattern is defined as a decline on which subtest(s) of WAIS-IV? - CORRECT
ANSWER - - All performance subtests, or test of perceptual-integrative ability (including
block design, digit span, etc.)
- Verbal functions are preserved relatively well.
Behavioral techniques that are most likely to produce an immediate improvement in a
misbehaved child are - CORRECT ANSWER - Reinforcement of appropriate behavior and
mild punishment for inappropriate behavior
Sensory aphasia - CORRECT ANSWER - Inability to understand words, without any loss
of ability to speak or hear words
Delusional depression - CORRECT ANSWER - Most successfully treated y
electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Quasi-experiment vs. true experimental design - CORRECT ANSWER - Random
assignment of participants to groups
Questions and CORRECT Answers
The relationship between nature and intellectual decline - CORRECT ANSWER - increase
in response time
The strongest evidence of addiction to substance - CORRECT ANSWER - Physiological
tolerance and withdrawal
The most common neuropsychological complication of AIDS - CORRECT ANSWER -
Dementia
What is the function of correction of attenuation - CORRECT ANSWER - Estimate the
correlation between two variables if one or both could be measured without error
If a research results indicated a contradictory findings to your initial hypotheses. In addition, a
moderation effects was found. Your co-worker suggested that you don't report the moderation
effects given that it is tangential to the main research question of the study. You should: -
CORRECT ANSWER - Not take your co-worker's suggestion because this will be
unethical. It conflicts with the psychologist's responsibility to report completely the results of
research project
Thordike's Law of Effects - CORRECT ANSWER - A reward tends to increase the
probability of recurrence of the response it follows.
Children's typically take their first steps around the age of? - CORRECT ANSWER - 12
months
Tonic-clonic seizures occurs most frequently in.. - CORRECT ANSWER - Grand mal
epilepsy
,Complex partial seizures occur in which part of the brain - CORRECT ANSWER -
Temporal lobe
Women who have had abortions .. - CORRECT ANSWER - the psychological
consequences are no worse than women who have chosen to continue their pregnancies and gave
birth.
Under the research on persuasion, the degree to which the receiver's initial position will change
when.... - CORRECT ANSWER - The communicator is credible; the effect will be greater
when there is a larger discrepancy between the communicator's position and the receiver's initial
position
A 10-year old boy who obtained an IQ score of 130. Two years later, he was tested with an
alternative form of the same test. Most likely, the obtained score on the second testing would be:
- CORRECT ANSWER - Less than 130
Specific deleterious effects of unpredictable nose could be reduced by... - CORRECT
ANSWER - Allowing the individual to terminate the noise if it becomes intolerable
Afferent sensory pathways - CORRECT ANSWER - Thalamus
Meta-analysis on the relationship between marital discord and child behavior problems showed
that - CORRECT ANSWER - Boys are more likely than girls to manifest an immediate
behavior problem
When interpreting and reporting test results, one should - CORRECT ANSWER - Focus
on the confidence interval of a score rather than only on the obtained score itself.
Feminist therapy - CORRECT ANSWER - - Self-disclosure by the psychologist is
specifically recommended and frequently applied.
- Egalitarian relationship b/w therapist and client
- seeing client's problems in their sociopolitical context
,- Encourage trust and respect for other women
Anxiety induced by reading about a car accident some months after having had a car accident is
best described as an instance of - CORRECT ANSWER - Mediated generalization
Intrinsic-motivational theory - CORRECT ANSWER - Predicts a decrease in productivity
as the external reward increases
Maternal employment on children's development... - CORRECT ANSWER - In families of
LOW SES, both sons and daughters of working mothers perform better on measures of cognitive
development than those of non-working mother.
Assessment centers uses a specific personnel selection method called... - CORRECT
ANSWER - Performance-based assessment
Psychoanalytic theory suggests that anxiety arises from.. - CORRECT ANSWER -A
failure of defenses to modulate excitation adequately
Diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease can be most accurately verified by - CORRECT
ANSWER - Brain biopsy
Adlerian theory conceptualizes a child's intention behind their misdemeanor as.. - CORRECT
ANSWER - To confirm an assumed disability, or to get attention, power, or revenge
In a skewed distribution with a tail extended to the left, the statistics with the highest value is... -
CORRECT ANSWER - Mode
What factors contributes to a favorable prognosis for psychotherapy? - CORRECT
ANSWER - - pre-existing client factors such as motivation to change, level of misery/ pain
, Performance of which type of activity has a positive relationship with age? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Knowledge-based judgments with no time pressure
According to classical test theory, the variance of the obtained test scores is equal to... -
CORRECT ANSWER - The sum of the true score variance and the error variance
Most effective therapeutic factor for OCD and Agoraphobia is - CORRECT ANSWER -
Prolonged exposure in vivo along with response prevention
The most frequent findings of studies on human beings with "split brain" is that.. - CORRECT
ANSWER - Certain kinds of visuospatial tasks are performed better by the right
hemisphere than the left.
Classic aging pattern is defined as a decline on which subtest(s) of WAIS-IV? - CORRECT
ANSWER - - All performance subtests, or test of perceptual-integrative ability (including
block design, digit span, etc.)
- Verbal functions are preserved relatively well.
Behavioral techniques that are most likely to produce an immediate improvement in a
misbehaved child are - CORRECT ANSWER - Reinforcement of appropriate behavior and
mild punishment for inappropriate behavior
Sensory aphasia - CORRECT ANSWER - Inability to understand words, without any loss
of ability to speak or hear words
Delusional depression - CORRECT ANSWER - Most successfully treated y
electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Quasi-experiment vs. true experimental design - CORRECT ANSWER - Random
assignment of participants to groups
