EPPP practice questions and answers
b) a disturbance in attention and awareness - ✅✅ -As defined in the DSM-5, the
essential feature of Delirium is:
a) impaired ability to transfer information from short- to long-term memory
b) a disturbance in attention and awareness
c) a disturbance in psychomotor behavior
d) disorientation
✅✅
a) to reduce tension between them, a two-person system draws in a third party -
-The concept of triangulation is central to general systems theory and can be
found in the work of Bowen, Minuchin, Satir, and others. Although these theorists differ
somewhat in their definition of triangulation, in general, it is said to be occurring when:
a) to reduce tension between them, a two-person system draws in a third party
b) to reduce tension between them, the members of a two-person system focus their
attention to a third party
c) to avoid dealing with the conflict between them, a two-person system forms an
alliance against a third person
d) to reduce conflict, two members of a three-person system assume a submissive role
when interacting with the third dominant member
c) word-stem completionW - ✅✅ -A researcher investigating implicit memory will most
likely use which of the following tasks?
a) free recall
b) paired-associate
c) word-stem completion
d) verbal recognition
d) glutamate - ✅✅ -Which of the following neurotransmitters has been implicated in
both long-term potentiation and the "excitotoxicity" that is believed to underlie several
neurodegenerative disorder?
a) serotonin
b) acetylcholine
c) norepinephrine
d) glutamate
a) analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) - ✅✅ -A researcher conducts a study to compare
three different strategies for increasing students' understanding of statistics. After
administering each strategy to a different group of students, she realizes that students
with the highest level of math aptitude were accidentally assigned to Strategy #1.
,Consequently, to compare the statistics knowledge test scores obtained by participants
in the three groups, the researcher should use which of the following statistical
techniques?
a) analysis of covariance (ANCOVA)
b) randomized block ANOVA
c) multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA)
split-plot ANOVA
✅✅
a) stakeholders of the organization are included in the discovery process -
-Regarding self-assessments that are utilized to promote organizational
development, what is key when implementing the findings?
a) stakeholders of the organization are included in the discovery process
b) lower level management of the organization is included in the discovery process
c) only the CEO and executive officers should be included in the discovery process
d) only management should be included in the discovery process
c) decrease the number of false positives - ✅✅ -Scores on a predictor that will be used
to estimate job performance rating range from 0 to 200. If the predictor's cutoff score is
raised from 130 to 150, this will have which of the following effects?
a) increase the number of true positives
b) increase the number of true positives and true negatives
c) decrease the number of false positives
d) decrease the number of false positives and false negatives
✅✅
d) refer the woman to someone who is more familiar with this type of evaluation -
-You are asked by the court to evaluate a 70-year old woman to help determine
her competence. She is apparently disoriented and confused and has substantial
memory loss. You have recently taken a weekend workshop on the use of a new
computerized assessment technique for people with symptoms like those exhibited by
this woman, and you feel this method of assessment would be especially valid in this
situation. Further, you had taken the workshop specifically because you want to expand
your practice by being qualified to conduct competency-related evaluations for the court.
Your best course of action would be to:
a) use the program to assess the woman
b) use the program to assess the woman but, when testifying in court, discuss the
potential limitations of your conclusions
c) use the program to assess the woman but confirm your conclusions before testifying
by consulting with the developer of the assessment technique
d)
, ✅✅
b) severe impairments in recent and remote memory; fluent aphasia; indifference or
irritability; restlessness - -The assessment of patients with Alzheimer's disease is
an ongoing process due to the degenerative nature of the disease and the consequent
need to alter the nature of the treatment plan. During the 4th or 5th years of the
disorder, an assessment is most likely to find which of the following?
a) deficits in new learning with remote memory mildly to moderately impaired; anomia;
sadness
b) severe impairments in recent and remote memory; fluent aphasia; indifference or
irritability; restlessness
c) severe impairments in memory and executive functioning; motor rigidity; confusion
and delusions
d) severely disturbed intellectual functioning; limb rigidity and flexion posture; apathy;
seizures
✅✅
d) each employee will function best if he/she is viewed as an individual and is given
personal attention - -A transactional leader is LEAST likely to agree with which of
the following statements:
a) employee behavior is goal directed and employees will act rationally to achieve their
goals
b) contingent rewards are effective for motivating good performance
c) the best idea for a boss is to adopt a laissez-faire leadership style
d) each employee will function best if he/she is viewed as an individual and is given
personal attention
c) interrupted time-series design -✅✅ -A researcher wants to investigate the effects of
a brief treatment for a group of 10 therapy clients before and after the treatment is
applied. She will measure symptom severity three times at regular intervals before
administering the treatment to the clients and then three times at regular intervals after
the clients complete the 10 sessions. The researcher is using which of the following
research designs?
a) multiple baseline
b) ABAB
c) interrupted time-series design
d) nonequivalent control group
✅✅
d) show little remorse after hurting another child - -Work by Perry and colleagues
suggests that highly aggressive children:
a) were exposed prenatally to high levels of androgens
b) are less sensitive to physical discomfort than less aggressive children
c) exhibited a disoriented/disengaged attachment pattern as a young child
b) a disturbance in attention and awareness - ✅✅ -As defined in the DSM-5, the
essential feature of Delirium is:
a) impaired ability to transfer information from short- to long-term memory
b) a disturbance in attention and awareness
c) a disturbance in psychomotor behavior
d) disorientation
✅✅
a) to reduce tension between them, a two-person system draws in a third party -
-The concept of triangulation is central to general systems theory and can be
found in the work of Bowen, Minuchin, Satir, and others. Although these theorists differ
somewhat in their definition of triangulation, in general, it is said to be occurring when:
a) to reduce tension between them, a two-person system draws in a third party
b) to reduce tension between them, the members of a two-person system focus their
attention to a third party
c) to avoid dealing with the conflict between them, a two-person system forms an
alliance against a third person
d) to reduce conflict, two members of a three-person system assume a submissive role
when interacting with the third dominant member
c) word-stem completionW - ✅✅ -A researcher investigating implicit memory will most
likely use which of the following tasks?
a) free recall
b) paired-associate
c) word-stem completion
d) verbal recognition
d) glutamate - ✅✅ -Which of the following neurotransmitters has been implicated in
both long-term potentiation and the "excitotoxicity" that is believed to underlie several
neurodegenerative disorder?
a) serotonin
b) acetylcholine
c) norepinephrine
d) glutamate
a) analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) - ✅✅ -A researcher conducts a study to compare
three different strategies for increasing students' understanding of statistics. After
administering each strategy to a different group of students, she realizes that students
with the highest level of math aptitude were accidentally assigned to Strategy #1.
,Consequently, to compare the statistics knowledge test scores obtained by participants
in the three groups, the researcher should use which of the following statistical
techniques?
a) analysis of covariance (ANCOVA)
b) randomized block ANOVA
c) multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA)
split-plot ANOVA
✅✅
a) stakeholders of the organization are included in the discovery process -
-Regarding self-assessments that are utilized to promote organizational
development, what is key when implementing the findings?
a) stakeholders of the organization are included in the discovery process
b) lower level management of the organization is included in the discovery process
c) only the CEO and executive officers should be included in the discovery process
d) only management should be included in the discovery process
c) decrease the number of false positives - ✅✅ -Scores on a predictor that will be used
to estimate job performance rating range from 0 to 200. If the predictor's cutoff score is
raised from 130 to 150, this will have which of the following effects?
a) increase the number of true positives
b) increase the number of true positives and true negatives
c) decrease the number of false positives
d) decrease the number of false positives and false negatives
✅✅
d) refer the woman to someone who is more familiar with this type of evaluation -
-You are asked by the court to evaluate a 70-year old woman to help determine
her competence. She is apparently disoriented and confused and has substantial
memory loss. You have recently taken a weekend workshop on the use of a new
computerized assessment technique for people with symptoms like those exhibited by
this woman, and you feel this method of assessment would be especially valid in this
situation. Further, you had taken the workshop specifically because you want to expand
your practice by being qualified to conduct competency-related evaluations for the court.
Your best course of action would be to:
a) use the program to assess the woman
b) use the program to assess the woman but, when testifying in court, discuss the
potential limitations of your conclusions
c) use the program to assess the woman but confirm your conclusions before testifying
by consulting with the developer of the assessment technique
d)
, ✅✅
b) severe impairments in recent and remote memory; fluent aphasia; indifference or
irritability; restlessness - -The assessment of patients with Alzheimer's disease is
an ongoing process due to the degenerative nature of the disease and the consequent
need to alter the nature of the treatment plan. During the 4th or 5th years of the
disorder, an assessment is most likely to find which of the following?
a) deficits in new learning with remote memory mildly to moderately impaired; anomia;
sadness
b) severe impairments in recent and remote memory; fluent aphasia; indifference or
irritability; restlessness
c) severe impairments in memory and executive functioning; motor rigidity; confusion
and delusions
d) severely disturbed intellectual functioning; limb rigidity and flexion posture; apathy;
seizures
✅✅
d) each employee will function best if he/she is viewed as an individual and is given
personal attention - -A transactional leader is LEAST likely to agree with which of
the following statements:
a) employee behavior is goal directed and employees will act rationally to achieve their
goals
b) contingent rewards are effective for motivating good performance
c) the best idea for a boss is to adopt a laissez-faire leadership style
d) each employee will function best if he/she is viewed as an individual and is given
personal attention
c) interrupted time-series design -✅✅ -A researcher wants to investigate the effects of
a brief treatment for a group of 10 therapy clients before and after the treatment is
applied. She will measure symptom severity three times at regular intervals before
administering the treatment to the clients and then three times at regular intervals after
the clients complete the 10 sessions. The researcher is using which of the following
research designs?
a) multiple baseline
b) ABAB
c) interrupted time-series design
d) nonequivalent control group
✅✅
d) show little remorse after hurting another child - -Work by Perry and colleagues
suggests that highly aggressive children:
a) were exposed prenatally to high levels of androgens
b) are less sensitive to physical discomfort than less aggressive children
c) exhibited a disoriented/disengaged attachment pattern as a young child
