EPPP Questions with Detailed Verified 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
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A test's __________ refers to its ability to correctly identify
individuals who are true negatives.
✓✓ Sensitivity
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?
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✓✓ 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)
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
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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