EPPP Sample Exam Questions and
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physical; mixed - ✔✔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 - ✔✔In adulthood, ____ memory is most negatively affected by
increasing age while ____ memory is relatively unaffected.
overreporting of psychological symptoms - ✔✔The F scale of the MMPI provides
information on...
taking the square root of the reliability coefficient - ✔✔The reliability index is an
estimate of the correlation between actual observed scores and theoretical true scores
and is calculated by..
video EEG - ✔✔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?
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,bar graph - ✔✔A _____ can be used to visually summarize the nominal data collected in
a research study
compulsive/ritualistic behaviors - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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?
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, more - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 -
✔✔Baddeley's (2000) multi-component model of working memory describes the
episodic buffer as being responsible for:
affective - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔Research participants are asked to memorize a list of
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physical; mixed - ✔✔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 - ✔✔In adulthood, ____ memory is most negatively affected by
increasing age while ____ memory is relatively unaffected.
overreporting of psychological symptoms - ✔✔The F scale of the MMPI provides
information on...
taking the square root of the reliability coefficient - ✔✔The reliability index is an
estimate of the correlation between actual observed scores and theoretical true scores
and is calculated by..
video EEG - ✔✔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?
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,bar graph - ✔✔A _____ can be used to visually summarize the nominal data collected in
a research study
compulsive/ritualistic behaviors - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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?
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, more - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 -
✔✔Baddeley's (2000) multi-component model of working memory describes the
episodic buffer as being responsible for:
affective - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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 - ✔✔Research participants are asked to memorize a list of
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