EPPP PSYCHOLOGY LICENSING 2025/2026 QUESTIONS
WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔GROWTH AND LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT
12. On which of the following WAIS-III subtests would you expect an elderly person to
evidence the most decline?
• 1. Arithmetic.
• 2. Vocabulary.
• 3. Letter-Number Sequencing.
• 4. Digit Span. - ✔✔3. Letter-Number Sequencing. (correct answer, your response)
✔✔TREATMENT, INTERVENTION AND PREVENTION
13. Which of the following statements about interpersonal therapy (IPT) for depression
is inaccurate?
• 1. Its goal is to improve relationships.
• 2. It is commonly combined with medication.
• 3. It is practiced on a short-term basis.
• 4. It emphasizes current conflicts and intrapsychic issues. - ✔✔4. It emphasizes
current conflicts and intrapsychic issues. (correct answer)
✔✔SOCIAL AND MULTICULTURAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
14. A person who believes that people who are white are superior to blacks is in which
stage of Helms's model of white racial identity development?
• 1. Reintegration.
• 2. Immersion.
• 3. Pseudo-independence.
• 4. Disintegration. - ✔✔1. Reintegration. (correct answer)
✔✔BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
15. When would the administration of Ritalin to a child with ADHD be contraindicated?
• 1. If tics are present.
• 2. If the child has a learning disorder.
• 3. If the child has conduct problems.
• 4. If the child has comorbid depression. - ✔✔1. If tics are present. (correct answer)
✔✔ETHICAL/LEGAL/PROFESSIONAL ISSUES
16. Dr. Z. is referred a patient by a managed care company for a brief evaluation. Due
to contract constraints, the patient is referred out for treatment after the evaluation. The
treating therapist meets with Dr. Z. and pays Dr. Z. a fee. In this case, the fee is:
• 1. unethical, because fees should not be based on referrals.
• 2. ethical, as long as this is a one-time arrangement.
• 3. ethical, as long as the fee is based on the consultation.
• 4. ethical, because the psychologist performed the evaluation. - ✔✔3. ethical, as long
as the fee is based on the consultation. (correct answer)
,✔✔ASSESSMENT AND DIAGNOSIS
17. A 16-year-old boy has recently begun to exhibit apathy, hypersexuality, poor
concentration and little need for sleep. The most likely diagnosis for him would be:
• 1. borderline personality disorder.
• 2. bipolar disorder.
• 3. schizophrenia.
• 4. ADHD. - ✔✔2. bipolar disorder. (correct answer, your response)
✔✔GROWTH AND LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT
18. When is the impact of poor nutrition most detrimental?
• 1. During infancy and early childhood.
• 2. During adolescence.
• 3. During old age.
• 4. During the perinatal period. - ✔✔4. During the perinatal period. (correct answer,
your response)
✔✔COGNITIVE-AFFECTIVE BASES OF BEHAVIOR
19. The benefits of flextime are thought to come from employees:
• 1. experiencing more freedom and control.
• 2. being able to work fewer total hours each week.
• 3. enjoying the benefits of a shorter work week and longer weekend.
• 4. feeling more responsibility and challenge on their jobs. - ✔✔1. experiencing more
freedom and control. (correct answer, your response)
✔✔TREATMENT, INTERVENTION AND PREVENTION
20. According to behaviorists, depression is the result of:
• 1. not enough reinforcement from the environment.
• 2. too much punishment from the environment.
• 3. maladaptive thinking.
• 4. genetic predisposition. - ✔✔1. not enough reinforcement from the environment.
(correct answer)
✔✔TREATMENT, INTERVENTION AND PREVENTION
21. To help a child overcome a phobia, you would most likely:
• 1. follow live or symbolic modeling with guided participation.
• 2. follow live modeling with symbolic modeling.
• 3. follow participant modeling with live modeling.
• 4. use guided participation before live or symbolic modeling. - ✔✔1. follow live or
symbolic modeling with guided participation. (correct answer, your response)
✔✔SOCIAL AND MULTICULTURAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
22. Which of the following statements is true regarding communication in cultures
considered to be high-context?
• 1. People focus more on how the message is communicated.
• 2. Greater emphasis is placed on choosing the right words to express the message.
,• 3. People prefer to sit or stand close to the person they are talking to.
• 4. People focus more on the content of the message. - ✔✔1. People focus more on
how the message is communicated. (correct answer)
✔✔ASSESSMENT AND DIAGNOSIS
23. Which one of the following is not considered to be among the most useful
biographical information (biodata)?
• 1. Parents' socioeconomic status.
• 2. Birth order.
• 3. Social popularity.
• 4. Hobbies and interests. - ✔✔2. Birth order. (correct answer)
✔✔ETHICAL/LEGAL/PROFESSIONAL ISSUES
24. What does the Ethics Code say about the care and termination of animals in
research?
• 1. Termination of animals in research is prohibited.
• 2. It is unethical to use animals in research.
• 3. If the animal's life must be terminated, it should be done as quickly and as
painlessly as possible.
• 4. Termination of animals in research is permissible if the study has "prospective
scientific value." - ✔✔3. If the animal's life must be terminated, it should be done as
quickly and as painlessly as possible. (correct answer)
✔✔COGNITIVE-AFFECTIVE BASES OF BEHAVIOR
25. A surgeon elects not to perform a serious operation on her father. In considering the
Yerkes-Dodson law, what can be said about this surgeon's decision?
• 1. She made the wrong decision because a high level of arousal facilitates optimal
task performance.
• 2. She made the wrong decision only if her arousal would have exceeded the optimal
level for conducting the operation.
• 3. She made a correct decision since her arousal would have been too low for the
operation.
• 4. She made a correct decision because her arousal would have been too high for
performing the task. - ✔✔4. She made a correct decision because her arousal would
have been too high for performing the task. (correct answer)
✔✔SOCIAL AND MULTICULTURAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
26. Five teams enter a ski jump competition. Each team is allowed up to four members.
Each team member is allowed only one jump, and the team with the member who
jumps the farthest is declared the winning team. This is an example of a(n):
• 1. disjunctive task.
• 2. conjunctive task.
• 3. aggregate task.
• 4. additive task. - ✔✔1. disjunctive task. (correct answer)
, ✔✔TREATMENT, INTERVENTION AND PREVENTION
27. Frequently patients report significant positive changes within the first few sessions
of therapy. This improvement is likely:
• 1. to manifest as a reduction in somatic complaints.
• 2. due to an increased sense of hope.
• 3. related to insights obtained in therapy.
• 4. a placebo effect. - ✔✔2. due to an increased sense of hope. (correct answer)
✔✔GROWTH AND LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT
28. The number one cause of death among adolescents and young adults is:
• 1. homicide.
• 2. suicide.
• 3. motor vehicle accidents.
• 4. illegal drugs. - ✔✔3. motor vehicle accidents. (correct answer, your response)
✔✔ETHICAL/LEGAL/PROFESSIONAL ISSUES
29. A psychologist accepts into treatment the wife of her own therapist. According to
APA's Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct (2002), the
psychologist's behavior is:
• 1. possibly ethical, because multiple relationships are not inherently unethical.
• 2. unethical, because of the high likelihood that the psychologist's objectivity and
competence will be impaired.
• 3. unethical, because multiple relationships are unethical except "in the most unusual
circumstances."
• 4. possibly ethical, unless there is a risk of exploitation or harm to the client. - ✔✔2.
unethical, because of the high likelihood that the psychologist's objectivity and
competence will be impaired. (correct answer)
✔✔ASSESSMENT AND DIAGNOSIS
30. Kuder-Richardson is a:
• 1. measure of inter-rater reliability.
• 2. method of estimating reliability if the number of items is increased or decreased.
• 3. coefficient of stability.
• 4. measure of internal consistency derived by analyzing all possible split-halves. - ✔✔•
4. measure of internal consistency derived by analyzing all possible split-halves.
(correct answer, your response)
✔✔BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
31. Patients displaying euphoria or apathy following a head trauma likely suffered
damage to the:
• 1. right hemisphere.
• 2. left hemisphere.
• 3. cerebellum.
• 4. corpus collosum. - ✔✔1. right hemisphere. (correct answer, your response)
WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔GROWTH AND LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT
12. On which of the following WAIS-III subtests would you expect an elderly person to
evidence the most decline?
• 1. Arithmetic.
• 2. Vocabulary.
• 3. Letter-Number Sequencing.
• 4. Digit Span. - ✔✔3. Letter-Number Sequencing. (correct answer, your response)
✔✔TREATMENT, INTERVENTION AND PREVENTION
13. Which of the following statements about interpersonal therapy (IPT) for depression
is inaccurate?
• 1. Its goal is to improve relationships.
• 2. It is commonly combined with medication.
• 3. It is practiced on a short-term basis.
• 4. It emphasizes current conflicts and intrapsychic issues. - ✔✔4. It emphasizes
current conflicts and intrapsychic issues. (correct answer)
✔✔SOCIAL AND MULTICULTURAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
14. A person who believes that people who are white are superior to blacks is in which
stage of Helms's model of white racial identity development?
• 1. Reintegration.
• 2. Immersion.
• 3. Pseudo-independence.
• 4. Disintegration. - ✔✔1. Reintegration. (correct answer)
✔✔BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
15. When would the administration of Ritalin to a child with ADHD be contraindicated?
• 1. If tics are present.
• 2. If the child has a learning disorder.
• 3. If the child has conduct problems.
• 4. If the child has comorbid depression. - ✔✔1. If tics are present. (correct answer)
✔✔ETHICAL/LEGAL/PROFESSIONAL ISSUES
16. Dr. Z. is referred a patient by a managed care company for a brief evaluation. Due
to contract constraints, the patient is referred out for treatment after the evaluation. The
treating therapist meets with Dr. Z. and pays Dr. Z. a fee. In this case, the fee is:
• 1. unethical, because fees should not be based on referrals.
• 2. ethical, as long as this is a one-time arrangement.
• 3. ethical, as long as the fee is based on the consultation.
• 4. ethical, because the psychologist performed the evaluation. - ✔✔3. ethical, as long
as the fee is based on the consultation. (correct answer)
,✔✔ASSESSMENT AND DIAGNOSIS
17. A 16-year-old boy has recently begun to exhibit apathy, hypersexuality, poor
concentration and little need for sleep. The most likely diagnosis for him would be:
• 1. borderline personality disorder.
• 2. bipolar disorder.
• 3. schizophrenia.
• 4. ADHD. - ✔✔2. bipolar disorder. (correct answer, your response)
✔✔GROWTH AND LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT
18. When is the impact of poor nutrition most detrimental?
• 1. During infancy and early childhood.
• 2. During adolescence.
• 3. During old age.
• 4. During the perinatal period. - ✔✔4. During the perinatal period. (correct answer,
your response)
✔✔COGNITIVE-AFFECTIVE BASES OF BEHAVIOR
19. The benefits of flextime are thought to come from employees:
• 1. experiencing more freedom and control.
• 2. being able to work fewer total hours each week.
• 3. enjoying the benefits of a shorter work week and longer weekend.
• 4. feeling more responsibility and challenge on their jobs. - ✔✔1. experiencing more
freedom and control. (correct answer, your response)
✔✔TREATMENT, INTERVENTION AND PREVENTION
20. According to behaviorists, depression is the result of:
• 1. not enough reinforcement from the environment.
• 2. too much punishment from the environment.
• 3. maladaptive thinking.
• 4. genetic predisposition. - ✔✔1. not enough reinforcement from the environment.
(correct answer)
✔✔TREATMENT, INTERVENTION AND PREVENTION
21. To help a child overcome a phobia, you would most likely:
• 1. follow live or symbolic modeling with guided participation.
• 2. follow live modeling with symbolic modeling.
• 3. follow participant modeling with live modeling.
• 4. use guided participation before live or symbolic modeling. - ✔✔1. follow live or
symbolic modeling with guided participation. (correct answer, your response)
✔✔SOCIAL AND MULTICULTURAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
22. Which of the following statements is true regarding communication in cultures
considered to be high-context?
• 1. People focus more on how the message is communicated.
• 2. Greater emphasis is placed on choosing the right words to express the message.
,• 3. People prefer to sit or stand close to the person they are talking to.
• 4. People focus more on the content of the message. - ✔✔1. People focus more on
how the message is communicated. (correct answer)
✔✔ASSESSMENT AND DIAGNOSIS
23. Which one of the following is not considered to be among the most useful
biographical information (biodata)?
• 1. Parents' socioeconomic status.
• 2. Birth order.
• 3. Social popularity.
• 4. Hobbies and interests. - ✔✔2. Birth order. (correct answer)
✔✔ETHICAL/LEGAL/PROFESSIONAL ISSUES
24. What does the Ethics Code say about the care and termination of animals in
research?
• 1. Termination of animals in research is prohibited.
• 2. It is unethical to use animals in research.
• 3. If the animal's life must be terminated, it should be done as quickly and as
painlessly as possible.
• 4. Termination of animals in research is permissible if the study has "prospective
scientific value." - ✔✔3. If the animal's life must be terminated, it should be done as
quickly and as painlessly as possible. (correct answer)
✔✔COGNITIVE-AFFECTIVE BASES OF BEHAVIOR
25. A surgeon elects not to perform a serious operation on her father. In considering the
Yerkes-Dodson law, what can be said about this surgeon's decision?
• 1. She made the wrong decision because a high level of arousal facilitates optimal
task performance.
• 2. She made the wrong decision only if her arousal would have exceeded the optimal
level for conducting the operation.
• 3. She made a correct decision since her arousal would have been too low for the
operation.
• 4. She made a correct decision because her arousal would have been too high for
performing the task. - ✔✔4. She made a correct decision because her arousal would
have been too high for performing the task. (correct answer)
✔✔SOCIAL AND MULTICULTURAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
26. Five teams enter a ski jump competition. Each team is allowed up to four members.
Each team member is allowed only one jump, and the team with the member who
jumps the farthest is declared the winning team. This is an example of a(n):
• 1. disjunctive task.
• 2. conjunctive task.
• 3. aggregate task.
• 4. additive task. - ✔✔1. disjunctive task. (correct answer)
, ✔✔TREATMENT, INTERVENTION AND PREVENTION
27. Frequently patients report significant positive changes within the first few sessions
of therapy. This improvement is likely:
• 1. to manifest as a reduction in somatic complaints.
• 2. due to an increased sense of hope.
• 3. related to insights obtained in therapy.
• 4. a placebo effect. - ✔✔2. due to an increased sense of hope. (correct answer)
✔✔GROWTH AND LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT
28. The number one cause of death among adolescents and young adults is:
• 1. homicide.
• 2. suicide.
• 3. motor vehicle accidents.
• 4. illegal drugs. - ✔✔3. motor vehicle accidents. (correct answer, your response)
✔✔ETHICAL/LEGAL/PROFESSIONAL ISSUES
29. A psychologist accepts into treatment the wife of her own therapist. According to
APA's Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct (2002), the
psychologist's behavior is:
• 1. possibly ethical, because multiple relationships are not inherently unethical.
• 2. unethical, because of the high likelihood that the psychologist's objectivity and
competence will be impaired.
• 3. unethical, because multiple relationships are unethical except "in the most unusual
circumstances."
• 4. possibly ethical, unless there is a risk of exploitation or harm to the client. - ✔✔2.
unethical, because of the high likelihood that the psychologist's objectivity and
competence will be impaired. (correct answer)
✔✔ASSESSMENT AND DIAGNOSIS
30. Kuder-Richardson is a:
• 1. measure of inter-rater reliability.
• 2. method of estimating reliability if the number of items is increased or decreased.
• 3. coefficient of stability.
• 4. measure of internal consistency derived by analyzing all possible split-halves. - ✔✔•
4. measure of internal consistency derived by analyzing all possible split-halves.
(correct answer, your response)
✔✔BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
31. Patients displaying euphoria or apathy following a head trauma likely suffered
damage to the:
• 1. right hemisphere.
• 2. left hemisphere.
• 3. cerebellum.
• 4. corpus collosum. - ✔✔1. right hemisphere. (correct answer, your response)
