APRP COMPREHENSIVE EXAM 2026
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ M1 link to attention 61 . Answer: previous investigations of
meditation and attention have revealed firstly, that the practice of
meditation leads to improvements in various aspects of attention,
including increased sensitivity, concentration, openness to experience
and decreased susceptibility to distraction and secondly, that such
changes may increase as a function of duration of meditation practice.
◉ M1 mediators & attention 66 . Answer: The results confirmed the
three hypotheses outlined in the Introduction. Firstly, meditators showed
superior performance to controls on sets 1 and 2 of Wilkins' Counting
Test, a test of sustained focused attention.
◉ M1 increased interest 66 . Answer: The meditators, on the other
hand, had learned that anything could be a subject of interest provided
an appropriate attitude is adopted and attention devoted to it.
◉ M1 Lt vs St 67 . Answer: The results of this study also indicated that
long-term meditators show further increments in attention in comparison
with short-term meditators.
, ◉ M1 diff type 67 . Answer: The results support the hypothesis that
different types of attentional training are involved in the two types of
meditation. This is consistent with physiological studies, e.g. the work of
Pribram (1 97 l), which localised focused attention in the frontal regions
of the brain and distributed attention in the posterior temporal areas
◉ M2 stroop 294 . Answer: Chan
and Woollacott (2007) found that meditators (FA meditators and OM
meditators)
performed significantly better than controls on executive attention as
measured
by the Stroop Task.
◉ M2 internal not external 304 . Answer: Mindfulness
meditation may well increase awareness of internal processes as well as
an ability
to quickly direct and attend to them, but that does not necessarily mean
that this type of
refined attentional ability is related to performance on attention tests
where the task is
to respond to external targets.
◉ M2 not rxn t but accuracy . Answer:
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ M1 link to attention 61 . Answer: previous investigations of
meditation and attention have revealed firstly, that the practice of
meditation leads to improvements in various aspects of attention,
including increased sensitivity, concentration, openness to experience
and decreased susceptibility to distraction and secondly, that such
changes may increase as a function of duration of meditation practice.
◉ M1 mediators & attention 66 . Answer: The results confirmed the
three hypotheses outlined in the Introduction. Firstly, meditators showed
superior performance to controls on sets 1 and 2 of Wilkins' Counting
Test, a test of sustained focused attention.
◉ M1 increased interest 66 . Answer: The meditators, on the other
hand, had learned that anything could be a subject of interest provided
an appropriate attitude is adopted and attention devoted to it.
◉ M1 Lt vs St 67 . Answer: The results of this study also indicated that
long-term meditators show further increments in attention in comparison
with short-term meditators.
, ◉ M1 diff type 67 . Answer: The results support the hypothesis that
different types of attentional training are involved in the two types of
meditation. This is consistent with physiological studies, e.g. the work of
Pribram (1 97 l), which localised focused attention in the frontal regions
of the brain and distributed attention in the posterior temporal areas
◉ M2 stroop 294 . Answer: Chan
and Woollacott (2007) found that meditators (FA meditators and OM
meditators)
performed significantly better than controls on executive attention as
measured
by the Stroop Task.
◉ M2 internal not external 304 . Answer: Mindfulness
meditation may well increase awareness of internal processes as well as
an ability
to quickly direct and attend to them, but that does not necessarily mean
that this type of
refined attentional ability is related to performance on attention tests
where the task is
to respond to external targets.
◉ M2 not rxn t but accuracy . Answer:
