EPPP PSYCHOLOGY ACTUAL EXAM STUDY TEST 2025/2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Glasser- choice theory assumes people are _______________ - ✔✔responsible for
the choices they make and focuses on how people make choices that affect the course
of their lives
✔✔Glasser's 5 basic innate needs of people that serve as motivation: - ✔✔survival, love
and belonging, power, freedom & fun
✔✔Glasser- Reality therapy views transference as ____________ - ✔✔detrimental to
therapy progress
✔✔Glasser-reality therapy stresses _____________ processes - ✔✔conscious
✔✔Glasser-total behaviour consists of - ✔✔consists of actions, thoughts, emotions and
physiology (emphasis on thoughts and actions, which can be most easily controlled by
the client)
✔✔Kelly's personal construct therapy focuses on how the client
__________________________ - ✔✔experiences the world
✔✔Kelly- personal constructs are - ✔✔bipolar dimensions of meaning that begin to
develop in infancy and may operate on an uncon/conscious level-based on the way
someone perceives, interprets and predicts events
✔✔Kelly-maladaptive behaviour is the result of ________________ - ✔✔inadequate
personal constructs
✔✔IPT views maladaptive behaviour as problems in - ✔✔social roles and interpersonal
relationships that are traceable to a lack of strong early attachments
✔✔Gestalt Therapy incorporates principles from... - ✔✔psychoanalysis,
phenomenology, & existentialism
✔✔Primary goals of IPT are - ✔✔symptom reduction and improved interpersonal
functioning
✔✔IPT interventions target one or more of four primary problem areas, including: -
✔✔unresolved grief;
interpersonal role disputes;
role transition; interpersonal deficits
, ✔✔Solution-focused therapy uses different trypes of questions to assist the client in
recognizes his strengths. These include: - ✔✔miracle question; exception question,
scaling question
✔✔Which of these change processes are not part of transtheoretical model of
behaviour change?
a) self/social liberation
b) unconscious raising
c) dramatic relief
d) counterconditioning
e) stimulus control - ✔✔b) unconscious raising is NOT part of transtheoretical model-
conscious raising is
✔✔The transtheoretical model of change has 6 stages of change: -
✔✔precontemplation; contemplation; preparation; action; maintenance; termination
✔✔Three mediating variables that affect motivation in transtheoretical therapy: -
✔✔decisional balance;
self-efficacy;
temptation
✔✔Motivational interviewing focuses on - ✔✔factors that impede an individual's ability
to change behaviours
✔✔OARS- specific techniques of motivational interviewing, include: - ✔✔open-ended
questions, affirmations, reflective listening, summaries
✔✔Which modality contains the contemplation stage of change?
a) solution-focused
b) reality therapy
c) Existential therapy
d) Transtheoretical model - ✔✔d) Transtheoretical
✔✔Which modality involvs the adoption of a success identy or a failure identity?
a) reality therapy
b) Transtheoretical model
c) personal construct
d) IPT - ✔✔a) reality
✔✔Which modality involves the use of fixed-role therapy?
a) personal construct
b) IPT
c) reality therapy
d) transtheoretical - ✔✔a) personal construct
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Glasser- choice theory assumes people are _______________ - ✔✔responsible for
the choices they make and focuses on how people make choices that affect the course
of their lives
✔✔Glasser's 5 basic innate needs of people that serve as motivation: - ✔✔survival, love
and belonging, power, freedom & fun
✔✔Glasser- Reality therapy views transference as ____________ - ✔✔detrimental to
therapy progress
✔✔Glasser-reality therapy stresses _____________ processes - ✔✔conscious
✔✔Glasser-total behaviour consists of - ✔✔consists of actions, thoughts, emotions and
physiology (emphasis on thoughts and actions, which can be most easily controlled by
the client)
✔✔Kelly's personal construct therapy focuses on how the client
__________________________ - ✔✔experiences the world
✔✔Kelly- personal constructs are - ✔✔bipolar dimensions of meaning that begin to
develop in infancy and may operate on an uncon/conscious level-based on the way
someone perceives, interprets and predicts events
✔✔Kelly-maladaptive behaviour is the result of ________________ - ✔✔inadequate
personal constructs
✔✔IPT views maladaptive behaviour as problems in - ✔✔social roles and interpersonal
relationships that are traceable to a lack of strong early attachments
✔✔Gestalt Therapy incorporates principles from... - ✔✔psychoanalysis,
phenomenology, & existentialism
✔✔Primary goals of IPT are - ✔✔symptom reduction and improved interpersonal
functioning
✔✔IPT interventions target one or more of four primary problem areas, including: -
✔✔unresolved grief;
interpersonal role disputes;
role transition; interpersonal deficits
, ✔✔Solution-focused therapy uses different trypes of questions to assist the client in
recognizes his strengths. These include: - ✔✔miracle question; exception question,
scaling question
✔✔Which of these change processes are not part of transtheoretical model of
behaviour change?
a) self/social liberation
b) unconscious raising
c) dramatic relief
d) counterconditioning
e) stimulus control - ✔✔b) unconscious raising is NOT part of transtheoretical model-
conscious raising is
✔✔The transtheoretical model of change has 6 stages of change: -
✔✔precontemplation; contemplation; preparation; action; maintenance; termination
✔✔Three mediating variables that affect motivation in transtheoretical therapy: -
✔✔decisional balance;
self-efficacy;
temptation
✔✔Motivational interviewing focuses on - ✔✔factors that impede an individual's ability
to change behaviours
✔✔OARS- specific techniques of motivational interviewing, include: - ✔✔open-ended
questions, affirmations, reflective listening, summaries
✔✔Which modality contains the contemplation stage of change?
a) solution-focused
b) reality therapy
c) Existential therapy
d) Transtheoretical model - ✔✔d) Transtheoretical
✔✔Which modality involvs the adoption of a success identy or a failure identity?
a) reality therapy
b) Transtheoretical model
c) personal construct
d) IPT - ✔✔a) reality
✔✔Which modality involves the use of fixed-role therapy?
a) personal construct
b) IPT
c) reality therapy
d) transtheoretical - ✔✔a) personal construct
