EPPP questions with Correct Answers
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Building a positive therapeutic alliance, reducing feelings of hopelessness, increasing
motivation for change, and developing a family-focused understanding of the family's
problems are most characteristic of the initial stage of: - ✔✔functional family therapy
Neurocognitive disorder caused by which of the following conditions is not potentially
reversible? - ✔✔Prion disease
The transdiagnostic adaptation of emotion-focused therapy (Timulak & Keogh, 2020)
targets which of the following? - ✔✔Chronic painful emotions
A researcher would use the split-plot ANOVA to analyze the data she collected in her
research study when: - ✔✔her study included one between-subjects independent
variable and one within-subjects independent variable. (mixed design)
Stress-induced increases in cortisol levels in the hippocampus have been linked to
impairments in the: - ✔✔Retrieval of declarative memories
A test's __________ refers to its ability to correctly identify individuals who are true
negatives. - ✔✔Sensitivity
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,The concordance rate for schizophrenia for monozygotic (identical) twins is: - ✔✔48%
The therapeutic index (TI) is a quantitative measure of the relative safety of a drug. It is
calculated by: - ✔✔dividing LD50 by ED50.
In terms of age, Freud's latency stage corresponds to Erikson's ________ stage. -
✔✔industry versus inferiority (6-12)
At birth, infants emit three different cries that indicate: - ✔✔hunger, anger, or pain.
To help ensure that differential selection doesn't threaten the internal validity of a
research study, an investigator will: - ✔✔randomly assign participants to different
levels of the independent variable.
Of the types of organizational commitment, which is the best predictor of a variety of
job outcomes? - ✔✔affective
A supervisor's knowledge of how well employees did on the selection measures that
were used to hire them affects how the supervisor subsequently rates each employee on
measures of job performance. This is an example of which of the following? -
✔✔criterion contamination
According to Sue et al. (2019), a Black therapy client with an _____ worldview is likely
to be the most challenging for a White middle-class therapist who has an IC-IR
worldview. - ✔✔IC-ER (internal locus control and external locus of responsibility)
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,Differential reinforcement combines which of the following? - ✔✔positive
reinforcement and operant extinction
For practitioners of narrative family therapy, a(n) __________ is a time when a problem
was expected to occur but did not occur. - ✔✔unique outcome
A decrease in the effectiveness of punishment over time is often due to: -
✔✔Habituation
The use of cue exposure treatment (CET) for alcohol use disorder often combines
exposure to cues that are associated with alcohol with: - ✔✔coping skills training.
For most children, stranger anxiety begins at about _______ months of age. - ✔✔8
When conducting a(n) ___________, an organizational psychologist would assign points
to a job's compensable factors. - ✔✔job evaluation
Research on the "pratfall effect" suggests that, when a(n) __________ person commits a
blunder, that person's attractiveness to others tends to increase. - ✔✔competent
According to Bronfenbrenner's (2004) ecological systems theory, available legal and
social services are part of the: - ✔✔exosystem
Avoidance conditioning is an example of two-factor learning and combines: -
✔✔classical conditioning and negative reinforcement
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, The best conclusion about the use of St. John's wort as a treatment for depression is that
it: - ✔✔C. should not be taken with an SSRI because doing so can cause serotonin
syndrome.
The presence of which of the following would be least useful for confirming a DSM
diagnosis of binge-eating disorder? - ✔✔overvaluation of body weight and shape
The studies have not provided entirely consistent results, but they have generally found
that which of the following Big Five personality traits increase with increasing age
during adulthood? - ✔✔agreeableness and conscientiousness
The time-series group design is most similar to which of the following single-subject
designs? - ✔✔AB
Holland (1985) used which of the following terms to describe the extent to which a
person's personality is clearly defined with regard to the six personality types. -
✔✔Differentiation
Research investigating the effectiveness of mindfulness-based therapy (MBT) has
generally found that it is: - ✔✔more effective for treating psychological disorders than
physical/medical conditions.
__________ processing is concept driven. - ✔✔top down
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Building a positive therapeutic alliance, reducing feelings of hopelessness, increasing
motivation for change, and developing a family-focused understanding of the family's
problems are most characteristic of the initial stage of: - ✔✔functional family therapy
Neurocognitive disorder caused by which of the following conditions is not potentially
reversible? - ✔✔Prion disease
The transdiagnostic adaptation of emotion-focused therapy (Timulak & Keogh, 2020)
targets which of the following? - ✔✔Chronic painful emotions
A researcher would use the split-plot ANOVA to analyze the data she collected in her
research study when: - ✔✔her study included one between-subjects independent
variable and one within-subjects independent variable. (mixed design)
Stress-induced increases in cortisol levels in the hippocampus have been linked to
impairments in the: - ✔✔Retrieval of declarative memories
A test's __________ refers to its ability to correctly identify individuals who are true
negatives. - ✔✔Sensitivity
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,The concordance rate for schizophrenia for monozygotic (identical) twins is: - ✔✔48%
The therapeutic index (TI) is a quantitative measure of the relative safety of a drug. It is
calculated by: - ✔✔dividing LD50 by ED50.
In terms of age, Freud's latency stage corresponds to Erikson's ________ stage. -
✔✔industry versus inferiority (6-12)
At birth, infants emit three different cries that indicate: - ✔✔hunger, anger, or pain.
To help ensure that differential selection doesn't threaten the internal validity of a
research study, an investigator will: - ✔✔randomly assign participants to different
levels of the independent variable.
Of the types of organizational commitment, which is the best predictor of a variety of
job outcomes? - ✔✔affective
A supervisor's knowledge of how well employees did on the selection measures that
were used to hire them affects how the supervisor subsequently rates each employee on
measures of job performance. This is an example of which of the following? -
✔✔criterion contamination
According to Sue et al. (2019), a Black therapy client with an _____ worldview is likely
to be the most challenging for a White middle-class therapist who has an IC-IR
worldview. - ✔✔IC-ER (internal locus control and external locus of responsibility)
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,Differential reinforcement combines which of the following? - ✔✔positive
reinforcement and operant extinction
For practitioners of narrative family therapy, a(n) __________ is a time when a problem
was expected to occur but did not occur. - ✔✔unique outcome
A decrease in the effectiveness of punishment over time is often due to: -
✔✔Habituation
The use of cue exposure treatment (CET) for alcohol use disorder often combines
exposure to cues that are associated with alcohol with: - ✔✔coping skills training.
For most children, stranger anxiety begins at about _______ months of age. - ✔✔8
When conducting a(n) ___________, an organizational psychologist would assign points
to a job's compensable factors. - ✔✔job evaluation
Research on the "pratfall effect" suggests that, when a(n) __________ person commits a
blunder, that person's attractiveness to others tends to increase. - ✔✔competent
According to Bronfenbrenner's (2004) ecological systems theory, available legal and
social services are part of the: - ✔✔exosystem
Avoidance conditioning is an example of two-factor learning and combines: -
✔✔classical conditioning and negative reinforcement
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, The best conclusion about the use of St. John's wort as a treatment for depression is that
it: - ✔✔C. should not be taken with an SSRI because doing so can cause serotonin
syndrome.
The presence of which of the following would be least useful for confirming a DSM
diagnosis of binge-eating disorder? - ✔✔overvaluation of body weight and shape
The studies have not provided entirely consistent results, but they have generally found
that which of the following Big Five personality traits increase with increasing age
during adulthood? - ✔✔agreeableness and conscientiousness
The time-series group design is most similar to which of the following single-subject
designs? - ✔✔AB
Holland (1985) used which of the following terms to describe the extent to which a
person's personality is clearly defined with regard to the six personality types. -
✔✔Differentiation
Research investigating the effectiveness of mindfulness-based therapy (MBT) has
generally found that it is: - ✔✔more effective for treating psychological disorders than
physical/medical conditions.
__________ processing is concept driven. - ✔✔top down
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