EPPP (Examination for Professional Practice in
Psychology) FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES || 100% GUARANTEED
PASS <RECENT VERSION>
1. Dysruptive mood dysregulation disorder age of onset - ANSWER ✓ Before
age 10
2. Person who have work-related accidents tend to - ANSWER ✓ have had
more recent life stress than accident-free workers
3. The more I yell at her the worse she gets - ANSWER ✓ positive
reinforcement
4. When to use CT vs. MRI - ANSWER ✓ CT is better for acute intracranial
hemmorhage and visualizing bony structures
5. Attentional load theory - ANSWER ✓ The degree to which an ignored
stimulus is processed depends on the extent of processing required by the
attended stimulus. Reduction of intereference caused by distractors is lowest
when the attentional demands for the attended sitmulus are highest
6. Milgram experiment displays what social influence - ANSWER ✓
Obedience
7. Bipolar 1 vs. 2 - ANSWER ✓ Only bipolar 1 requires history of manic
episodes. Bipolar 2 has hypomanic episodes (less severe)
8. Ecological asssesment - ANSWER ✓ Uses primarily observational methods
to examine and understand the physical and psychological variable that
impact behavior in a given setting
,9. Positive manifold - ANSWER ✓ Idea that all variables are positively
correlated (cog assessment)
10.Primary mental ability theory - ANSWER ✓ Thurstone's idea of 7 factors, or
primary mental abilities, are word fluency, verbal comprehension, spatial
visualization, number facility, associative memory, reasoning, and
perceptual speed.
11.Tonotic auditory processing - ANSWER ✓ tonotopy is the spatial
arrangement of where sounds of different frequency are processed in the
brain. Tones close to each other in terms of frequency are represented in
topologically neighbouring regions in the brain. Processed in heschl's gyri
12.Bulimia vs. Anorexia - ANSWER ✓ Bulimia involves maintaining a normal
body weight. Both can have bingeing and purging
13.Alexia without agraphia - ANSWER ✓ Pathology is usually a stroke in the
posterior region of the left hemisphere affecting the posterior region of the
corpus callosum, disconnecting the visual centers of the brain from the
langauge centers
14.Publicity from press for psychologist - ANSWER ✓ Psychologists do not
compensate employees of press, radio, television, or other communication
media in return for publicity in a news item
15.Introjection - ANSWER ✓ absorbing the values or behaviors of others,
including the larger society, without really understanding or assimilating
those values or behaviors
16.Benefits from computer assisted instruction in classroom - ANSWER ✓
Low-ability students tend to benefit more from computer-assisted instruction
17.point-biserial coefficient - ANSWER ✓ used for correlating one continuous
and one dichotomous variable
18.Spearman's rho - ANSWER ✓ the equivalent of a correlation coefficient for
rank-ordered scores
,19.biserial coefficient - ANSWER ✓ used to determine the correlation between
two variables when one is continuous and one is an artificial dichotomy
20.Termination of animal in research - ANSWER ✓ It is done rapidly, with an
effort to minimize pain, and in accordance with accepted procedures
21.belief in a just world - ANSWER ✓ tend to blame the victim for crimes, out
of a need to believe that bad crimes should not occur to good people
22.fundamental principle underlying goal-setting theory - ANSWER ✓ A
person must consciously accept the goals and intend to achieve them
23.Effectiveness of smoking cessation techniques - ANSWER ✓ Behavioral +
pharmacological better effects in long-term
24.Ethnicity that benefits the most from authoritative parenting style -
ANSWER ✓ Whites
25.Changing specialty to clinical psychology - ANSWER ✓ Need training and
experience (e.g. classes and post-doc)
26.alogia - ANSWER ✓ poverty of thought/speech
27.avolition - ANSWER ✓ low goal directed behavior
28.aphasia - ANSWER ✓ language issue
29.apraxia - ANSWER ✓ motor issue
30.agnosia - ANSWER ✓ issue naming ppl/objects
31.dysarthia - ANSWER ✓ articulation issue
32.anomia - ANSWER ✓ word finding "naming" issue
33.ideomotor apraxia - ANSWER ✓ issue putting idea into movement
, 34.paraparesis - ANSWER ✓ lower limb weakness
35.paraplegia - ANSWER ✓ lower body paralyzed
36.dementia pugilistica - ANSWER ✓ boxing dementia progressive
37.anosognosia - ANSWER ✓ poor insight
38.transient tic - ANSWER ✓ 1-12 months
39.tourettes - ANSWER ✓ high dopamine. 1 verbal and several motor. haldol
tx.
40.new neurons - ANSWER ✓ aka neurogenesis; in hippocampus and caudate
nucleus
41.neuron parts - ANSWER ✓ dendrite
axon
cell body (soma)
42.all-or-none principle - ANSWER ✓ stimulation in neuron exceeds threshold;
the action potential will be the same intensity
43.synaptic transmission - ANSWER ✓ neurotransmitter released into synaptic
cleft
44.Ach - ANSWER ✓ alzeheimer's memory issues (drugs slow breakdown of
Ach)
45.dopamine - ANSWER ✓ personality, mood, memory, sleep.
dopamine hypothesis: too much in schizo
motor diseases: tourette's (too much), parkinsons (breakdown)
46.norepiniphrine - ANSWER ✓ mood, attn, dreaming, learning, autonomic
catecholamine hypothesis: low in depression
Psychology) FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES || 100% GUARANTEED
PASS <RECENT VERSION>
1. Dysruptive mood dysregulation disorder age of onset - ANSWER ✓ Before
age 10
2. Person who have work-related accidents tend to - ANSWER ✓ have had
more recent life stress than accident-free workers
3. The more I yell at her the worse she gets - ANSWER ✓ positive
reinforcement
4. When to use CT vs. MRI - ANSWER ✓ CT is better for acute intracranial
hemmorhage and visualizing bony structures
5. Attentional load theory - ANSWER ✓ The degree to which an ignored
stimulus is processed depends on the extent of processing required by the
attended stimulus. Reduction of intereference caused by distractors is lowest
when the attentional demands for the attended sitmulus are highest
6. Milgram experiment displays what social influence - ANSWER ✓
Obedience
7. Bipolar 1 vs. 2 - ANSWER ✓ Only bipolar 1 requires history of manic
episodes. Bipolar 2 has hypomanic episodes (less severe)
8. Ecological asssesment - ANSWER ✓ Uses primarily observational methods
to examine and understand the physical and psychological variable that
impact behavior in a given setting
,9. Positive manifold - ANSWER ✓ Idea that all variables are positively
correlated (cog assessment)
10.Primary mental ability theory - ANSWER ✓ Thurstone's idea of 7 factors, or
primary mental abilities, are word fluency, verbal comprehension, spatial
visualization, number facility, associative memory, reasoning, and
perceptual speed.
11.Tonotic auditory processing - ANSWER ✓ tonotopy is the spatial
arrangement of where sounds of different frequency are processed in the
brain. Tones close to each other in terms of frequency are represented in
topologically neighbouring regions in the brain. Processed in heschl's gyri
12.Bulimia vs. Anorexia - ANSWER ✓ Bulimia involves maintaining a normal
body weight. Both can have bingeing and purging
13.Alexia without agraphia - ANSWER ✓ Pathology is usually a stroke in the
posterior region of the left hemisphere affecting the posterior region of the
corpus callosum, disconnecting the visual centers of the brain from the
langauge centers
14.Publicity from press for psychologist - ANSWER ✓ Psychologists do not
compensate employees of press, radio, television, or other communication
media in return for publicity in a news item
15.Introjection - ANSWER ✓ absorbing the values or behaviors of others,
including the larger society, without really understanding or assimilating
those values or behaviors
16.Benefits from computer assisted instruction in classroom - ANSWER ✓
Low-ability students tend to benefit more from computer-assisted instruction
17.point-biserial coefficient - ANSWER ✓ used for correlating one continuous
and one dichotomous variable
18.Spearman's rho - ANSWER ✓ the equivalent of a correlation coefficient for
rank-ordered scores
,19.biserial coefficient - ANSWER ✓ used to determine the correlation between
two variables when one is continuous and one is an artificial dichotomy
20.Termination of animal in research - ANSWER ✓ It is done rapidly, with an
effort to minimize pain, and in accordance with accepted procedures
21.belief in a just world - ANSWER ✓ tend to blame the victim for crimes, out
of a need to believe that bad crimes should not occur to good people
22.fundamental principle underlying goal-setting theory - ANSWER ✓ A
person must consciously accept the goals and intend to achieve them
23.Effectiveness of smoking cessation techniques - ANSWER ✓ Behavioral +
pharmacological better effects in long-term
24.Ethnicity that benefits the most from authoritative parenting style -
ANSWER ✓ Whites
25.Changing specialty to clinical psychology - ANSWER ✓ Need training and
experience (e.g. classes and post-doc)
26.alogia - ANSWER ✓ poverty of thought/speech
27.avolition - ANSWER ✓ low goal directed behavior
28.aphasia - ANSWER ✓ language issue
29.apraxia - ANSWER ✓ motor issue
30.agnosia - ANSWER ✓ issue naming ppl/objects
31.dysarthia - ANSWER ✓ articulation issue
32.anomia - ANSWER ✓ word finding "naming" issue
33.ideomotor apraxia - ANSWER ✓ issue putting idea into movement
, 34.paraparesis - ANSWER ✓ lower limb weakness
35.paraplegia - ANSWER ✓ lower body paralyzed
36.dementia pugilistica - ANSWER ✓ boxing dementia progressive
37.anosognosia - ANSWER ✓ poor insight
38.transient tic - ANSWER ✓ 1-12 months
39.tourettes - ANSWER ✓ high dopamine. 1 verbal and several motor. haldol
tx.
40.new neurons - ANSWER ✓ aka neurogenesis; in hippocampus and caudate
nucleus
41.neuron parts - ANSWER ✓ dendrite
axon
cell body (soma)
42.all-or-none principle - ANSWER ✓ stimulation in neuron exceeds threshold;
the action potential will be the same intensity
43.synaptic transmission - ANSWER ✓ neurotransmitter released into synaptic
cleft
44.Ach - ANSWER ✓ alzeheimer's memory issues (drugs slow breakdown of
Ach)
45.dopamine - ANSWER ✓ personality, mood, memory, sleep.
dopamine hypothesis: too much in schizo
motor diseases: tourette's (too much), parkinsons (breakdown)
46.norepiniphrine - ANSWER ✓ mood, attn, dreaming, learning, autonomic
catecholamine hypothesis: low in depression
