EPPP Sample UPDATED ACTUAL Exam
Questions and CORRECT Answers
physical; mixed - CORRECT ANSWER - Based on the results of their review of research
on relational aggression, Voulgaridou and Kokkinos (2015) concluded that studies have
consistently found adolescent boys engage in more _____ aggression, but have provided ____
results about gender differences in relational aggression.
secondary; primary - CORRECT ANSWER - In adulthood, ____ memory is most
negatively affected by increasing age while ____ memory is relatively unaffected.
overreporting of psychological symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER - The F scale of the
MMPI provides information on...
taking the square root of the reliability coefficient - CORRECT ANSWER - The reliability
index is an estimate of the correlation between actual observed scores and theoretical true scores
and is calculated by..
video EEG - CORRECT ANSWER - Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) are
similar to actual epileptic seizures in terms of symptoms but are due to psychological distress.
Which of the following is considered most useful for distinguishing PNES from actual seizures?
bar graph - CORRECT ANSWER - A _____ can be used to visually summarize the
nominal data collected in a research study
compulsive/ritualistic behaviors - CORRECT ANSWER - Which of the following is not
one of the core symptoms identified in the DSM-5 for neurocognitive disorder with Lewy
bodies?
A: fluctuating cognition that involves changes in attention and executive functions
B: recurrent and detailed visual hallucinations
C: compulsive/ritualistic behaviors
D: spontaneous features of parkinsonism
,negative reinforcement - CORRECT ANSWER - Mr. Olson can't stand it when his son,
Alex, teases his little sister and, whenever he does so, Mr. Olson yells at Alex. Over time, Mr.
Olson finds that he has to yell louder and more often to get Alex to stop teasing his sister. In this
situation, Mr. Olson's yelling is being controlled by:
beneficence/nonmaleficence and respect - CORRECT ANSWER - A therapist accepted a
small gift from a 65-year-old Chinese therapy client because he was concerned that rejecting the
gift might have caused the client to "lose face." The therapist's acceptance of the gift is most
consistent with which of the General Principles contained in the APA's Ethics Code?
more - CORRECT ANSWER - Based on the results of their meta-analysis of the research,
Khoury and his colleagues (2013) conclude that mindfulness-based therapy (MBT) is ____
effective for treating psychological disorders than physical/medical conditions
22 - CORRECT ANSWER - The earliest time in fetal development when the fetus has a
good chance of survival outside the womb is referred to as the age of viability. The age that
marks the lower limit of viability is generally considered to be ________ weeks after conception.
integrating new verbal and visual information with information in long-term memory -
CORRECT ANSWER - Baddeley's (2000) multi-component model of working memory
describes the episodic buffer as being responsible for:
affective - CORRECT ANSWER - A meta-analysis of research on organizational
commitment by Meyer and his colleagues (2002) led them to conclude that __________
commitment has the strongest and most favorable correlations with attendance, performance, and
other job-related outcomes.
reciprocal inhibition - CORRECT ANSWER - Wolpe's use of __________ to reduce
experimental neurosis in cats led to his development of systematic desensitization to treat phobic
anxiety in humans.
words from the beginning and end of the list about equally well and better than words from the
middle of the list - CORRECT ANSWER - Research participants are asked to memorize a
, list of unrelated words and then immediately recall the words in any order. Most likely, the
participants will recall:
children and adolescents who have experienced sexual abuse or other trauma - CORRECT
ANSWER - Trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) is an evidence-based
therapy that's used to treat:
cognitive modeling - CORRECT ANSWER - When using Meichenbaum's (1977) self-
instructional training to help impulsive children control their behaviors while completing certain
tasks, the initial step of training involves which of the following?
Boyd-Franklin's (1989) multisystems model - CORRECT ANSWER - model that
identifies the components of the treatment process and the levels at which each component can
be applied
recognition of the inherent potential for both good and evil - CORRECT ANSWER -
Humanistic and existential therapies share all of the following except:
A. emphasis on current circumstances rather than past formative influences.
B. recognition of the inherent potential for both good and evil
C. resistance to the use of clinical labels
D. adoption of a phenomenological orientation that prioritizes subjective experience over
objective reality
convergence - CORRECT ANSWER - Which of the following is not a monocular cue that
facilitates depth perception?
A. interposition
B. convergence
C. motion parallax
D. linear perspective
Questions and CORRECT Answers
physical; mixed - CORRECT ANSWER - Based on the results of their review of research
on relational aggression, Voulgaridou and Kokkinos (2015) concluded that studies have
consistently found adolescent boys engage in more _____ aggression, but have provided ____
results about gender differences in relational aggression.
secondary; primary - CORRECT ANSWER - In adulthood, ____ memory is most
negatively affected by increasing age while ____ memory is relatively unaffected.
overreporting of psychological symptoms - CORRECT ANSWER - The F scale of the
MMPI provides information on...
taking the square root of the reliability coefficient - CORRECT ANSWER - The reliability
index is an estimate of the correlation between actual observed scores and theoretical true scores
and is calculated by..
video EEG - CORRECT ANSWER - Psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES) are
similar to actual epileptic seizures in terms of symptoms but are due to psychological distress.
Which of the following is considered most useful for distinguishing PNES from actual seizures?
bar graph - CORRECT ANSWER - A _____ can be used to visually summarize the
nominal data collected in a research study
compulsive/ritualistic behaviors - CORRECT ANSWER - Which of the following is not
one of the core symptoms identified in the DSM-5 for neurocognitive disorder with Lewy
bodies?
A: fluctuating cognition that involves changes in attention and executive functions
B: recurrent and detailed visual hallucinations
C: compulsive/ritualistic behaviors
D: spontaneous features of parkinsonism
,negative reinforcement - CORRECT ANSWER - Mr. Olson can't stand it when his son,
Alex, teases his little sister and, whenever he does so, Mr. Olson yells at Alex. Over time, Mr.
Olson finds that he has to yell louder and more often to get Alex to stop teasing his sister. In this
situation, Mr. Olson's yelling is being controlled by:
beneficence/nonmaleficence and respect - CORRECT ANSWER - A therapist accepted a
small gift from a 65-year-old Chinese therapy client because he was concerned that rejecting the
gift might have caused the client to "lose face." The therapist's acceptance of the gift is most
consistent with which of the General Principles contained in the APA's Ethics Code?
more - CORRECT ANSWER - Based on the results of their meta-analysis of the research,
Khoury and his colleagues (2013) conclude that mindfulness-based therapy (MBT) is ____
effective for treating psychological disorders than physical/medical conditions
22 - CORRECT ANSWER - The earliest time in fetal development when the fetus has a
good chance of survival outside the womb is referred to as the age of viability. The age that
marks the lower limit of viability is generally considered to be ________ weeks after conception.
integrating new verbal and visual information with information in long-term memory -
CORRECT ANSWER - Baddeley's (2000) multi-component model of working memory
describes the episodic buffer as being responsible for:
affective - CORRECT ANSWER - A meta-analysis of research on organizational
commitment by Meyer and his colleagues (2002) led them to conclude that __________
commitment has the strongest and most favorable correlations with attendance, performance, and
other job-related outcomes.
reciprocal inhibition - CORRECT ANSWER - Wolpe's use of __________ to reduce
experimental neurosis in cats led to his development of systematic desensitization to treat phobic
anxiety in humans.
words from the beginning and end of the list about equally well and better than words from the
middle of the list - CORRECT ANSWER - Research participants are asked to memorize a
, list of unrelated words and then immediately recall the words in any order. Most likely, the
participants will recall:
children and adolescents who have experienced sexual abuse or other trauma - CORRECT
ANSWER - Trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy (TF-CBT) is an evidence-based
therapy that's used to treat:
cognitive modeling - CORRECT ANSWER - When using Meichenbaum's (1977) self-
instructional training to help impulsive children control their behaviors while completing certain
tasks, the initial step of training involves which of the following?
Boyd-Franklin's (1989) multisystems model - CORRECT ANSWER - model that
identifies the components of the treatment process and the levels at which each component can
be applied
recognition of the inherent potential for both good and evil - CORRECT ANSWER -
Humanistic and existential therapies share all of the following except:
A. emphasis on current circumstances rather than past formative influences.
B. recognition of the inherent potential for both good and evil
C. resistance to the use of clinical labels
D. adoption of a phenomenological orientation that prioritizes subjective experience over
objective reality
convergence - CORRECT ANSWER - Which of the following is not a monocular cue that
facilitates depth perception?
A. interposition
B. convergence
C. motion parallax
D. linear perspective
