EPPP (Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology) FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES || 100% GUARANTEED PASS <RECENT VERSION>

EPPP (Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology) FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES || 100% GUARANTEED PASS &lt;RECENT VERSION&gt; 1. Dysruptive mood dysregulation disorder age of onset - ANSWER Before age 10 2. Person who have work-related accidents tend to - ANSWER have had more recent life stress than accident-free workers 3. The more I yell at her the worse she gets - ANSWER positive reinforcement 4. When to use CT vs. MRI - ANSWER CT is better for acute intracranial hemmorhage and visualizing bony structures 5. Attentional load theory - ANSWER The degree to which an ignored stimulus is processed depends on the extent of processing required by the attended stimulus. Reduction of intereference caused by distractors is lowest when the attentional demands for the attended sitmulus are highest 6. Milgram experiment displays what social influence - ANSWER Obedience 7. Bipolar 1 vs. 2 - ANSWER Only bipolar 1 requires history of manic episodes. Bipolar 2 has hypomanic episodes (less severe) 8. Ecological asssesment - ANSWER Uses primarily observational methods to examine and understand the physical and psychological variable that impact behavior in a given setting 9. Positive manifold - ANSWER Idea that all variables are positively correlated (cog assessment) 10. Primary mental ability theory - ANSWER Thurstone's idea of 7 factors, or primary mental abilities, are word fluency, verbal comprehension, spatial visualization, number facility, associative memory, reasoning, and perceptual speed. 11. Tonotic auditory processing - ANSWER tonotopy is the spatial arrangement of where sounds of different frequency are processed in the brain. Tones close to each other in terms of frequency are represented in topologically neighbouring regions in the brain. Processed in heschl's gyri 12. Bulimia vs. Anorexia - ANSWER Bulimia involves maintaining a normal body weight. Both can have bingeing and purging 13. Alexia without agraphia - ANSWER Pathology is usually a stroke in the posterior region of the left hemisphere affecting the posterior region of the corpus callosum, disconnecting the visual centers of the brain from the langauge centers 14. Publicity from press for psychologist - ANSWER Psychologists do not compensate employees of press, radio, television, or other communication media in return for publicity in a news item 15. Introjection - ANSWER absorbing the values or behaviors of others, including the larger society, without really understanding or assimilating those values or behaviors 16. Benefits from computer assisted instruction in classroom - ANSWER Low-ability students tend to benefit more from computer-assisted instruction 17. point-biserial coefficient - ANSWER used for correlating one continuous and one dichotomous variable 18. Spearman's rho - ANSWER the equivalent of a correlation coefficient for rank-ordered scores 19. biserial coefficient - ANSWER used to determine the correlation between two variables when one is continuous and one is an artificial dichotomy 20. Termination of animal in research - ANSWER It is done rapidly, with an effort to minimize pain, and in accordance with accepted procedures 21. belief in a just world - ANSWER tend to blame the victim for crimes, out of a need to believe that bad crimes should not occur to good people 22. fundamental principle underlying goal-setting theory - ANSWER A person must consciously accept the goals and intend to achieve them 23. Effectiveness of smoking cessation techniques - ANSWER Behavioral + pharmacological better effects in long-term 24. Ethnicity that benefits the most from authoritative parenting style - ANSWER Whites 25. Changing specialty to clinical psychology - ANSWER Need training and experience (e.g. classes and post-doc) 26. alogia - ANSWER poverty of thought/speech 27. avolition - ANSWER low goal directed behavior 28. aphasia - ANSWER language issue 29. apraxia - ANSWER motor issue 30. agnosia - ANSWER issue naming ppl/objects 31. dysarthia - ANSWER articulation issue 32. anomia - ANSWER word finding "naming" issue 33. ideomotor apraxia - ANSWER issue putting idea into movement 34. paraparesis - ANSWER lower limb weakness 35. paraplegia - ANSWER lower body paralyzed 36. dementia pugilistica - ANSWER boxing dementia progressive 37. anosognosia - ANSWER poor insight 38. transient tic - ANSWER 1-12 months 39. tourettes - ANSWER high dopamine. 1 verbal and several motor. haldol tx. 40. new neurons - ANSWER aka neurogenesis; in hippocampus and caudate nucleus 41. neuron parts - ANSWER dendrite axon cell body (soma) 42. all-or-none principle - ANSWER stimulation in neuron exceeds threshold; the action potential will be the same intensity 43. synaptic transmission - ANSWER neurotransmitter released into synaptic cleft 44. Ach - ANSWER alzeheimer's memory issues (drugs slow breakdown of Ach) 45. dopamine - ANSWER personality, mood, memory, sleep. dopamine hypothesis: too much in schizo motor diseases: tourette's (too much), parkinsons (breakdown) 46. norepiniphrine - ANSWER mood, attn, dreaming, learning, autonomic catecholamine hypothesis: low in depression