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...
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,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?
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
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,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?
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.
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, 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 unrelated words and then immediately recall the
words in any order. Most likely, the participants will recall:
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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...
1
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,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?
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
2
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,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?
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.
3
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, 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 unrelated words and then immediately recall the
words in any order. Most likely, the participants will recall:
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