EPPP ACTUAL PRACTICE STUDY GUIDE EXAM |2026/2027 LATEST
VERSION WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE
DETAILED ANSWERS | GRADED A+
HIPPA allows covered entities to disclose a patient's personal health information: -
CORRECT|ANSWER
Without an authorization signed by the patient when its going to be used for the purpose of
treatment, payment, or health care operations
DSM-5 provides polythetic criterion sets for its diagnoses, which allow a clinician to: -
CORRECT|ANSWER
Assign the same diagnosis to people who have somewhat different symptoms
Dr. Sholen has trained a psychology intern to administer and score several psychological tests that
she frequently administers to clients who have been referred to her for psychological assessment. Dr.
Sholen always interprets the clients' scores and, when preparing the psychological reports for clients
who have taken these tests, she doesn't indicate that they were administered and scored by the
intern. This practice is: -
CORRECT|ANSWER
Unethical since the intern should be identified as the person who administered and scored the tests
According to the encoding specificity hypothesis, forgetting is caused by inadequate: -
CORRECT|ANSWER
retrieval cues
Your new client is Amy Anderson, age 24, who says she always experiences severe anxiety when
meeting new people. For a DSM-5 diagnosis of social anxiety disorder, Amy must also exhibit which
of the following? -
CORRECT|ANSWER
a fear of being embarrassed or humiliated
Which of the following describes ethical requirements regarding a psychologist's use of deception in
a research study? -
CORRECT|ANSWER
, Psychologists may use deception when it's justified by the study's prospective value and participants
are allowed to withdraw from the study at any time.
Which of the following is least susceptible to satiation? -
CORRECT|ANSWER
generalized reinforcers
What involves continuing to practice newly acquired skills beyond the point of mastery? -
CORRECT|ANSWER
Overlearning
Dr. Swenson, a licensed psychologist, has just started working at an inner-city clinic. He soon realizes
that some of his clients have problems he has not previously encountered and that he's likely to
continue encountering these problems. As an ethical psychologist, Dr. Swenson should: -
CORRECT|ANSWER
see the clients in therapy but seek consultation with a colleague who has relevant experience
The correct DSM-5 diagnosis for a 12-year-old boy who has two motor tics that began 9 months ago
is: -
CORRECT|ANSWER
provisional tic disorder
Lewin proposed that planned change in organizations involves which of the following -
CORRECT|ANSWER
unfreezing, changing, and refreezing
A researcher would use the split-plot ANOVA to analyze the data she collected in her research study
when -
CORRECT|ANSWER
her study included one between-subjects independent variable and one within-subjects
independent variable
A test's ___________ refers to its ability to correctly identify individuals who are true negatives -
VERSION WITH COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND ACCURATE
DETAILED ANSWERS | GRADED A+
HIPPA allows covered entities to disclose a patient's personal health information: -
CORRECT|ANSWER
Without an authorization signed by the patient when its going to be used for the purpose of
treatment, payment, or health care operations
DSM-5 provides polythetic criterion sets for its diagnoses, which allow a clinician to: -
CORRECT|ANSWER
Assign the same diagnosis to people who have somewhat different symptoms
Dr. Sholen has trained a psychology intern to administer and score several psychological tests that
she frequently administers to clients who have been referred to her for psychological assessment. Dr.
Sholen always interprets the clients' scores and, when preparing the psychological reports for clients
who have taken these tests, she doesn't indicate that they were administered and scored by the
intern. This practice is: -
CORRECT|ANSWER
Unethical since the intern should be identified as the person who administered and scored the tests
According to the encoding specificity hypothesis, forgetting is caused by inadequate: -
CORRECT|ANSWER
retrieval cues
Your new client is Amy Anderson, age 24, who says she always experiences severe anxiety when
meeting new people. For a DSM-5 diagnosis of social anxiety disorder, Amy must also exhibit which
of the following? -
CORRECT|ANSWER
a fear of being embarrassed or humiliated
Which of the following describes ethical requirements regarding a psychologist's use of deception in
a research study? -
CORRECT|ANSWER
, Psychologists may use deception when it's justified by the study's prospective value and participants
are allowed to withdraw from the study at any time.
Which of the following is least susceptible to satiation? -
CORRECT|ANSWER
generalized reinforcers
What involves continuing to practice newly acquired skills beyond the point of mastery? -
CORRECT|ANSWER
Overlearning
Dr. Swenson, a licensed psychologist, has just started working at an inner-city clinic. He soon realizes
that some of his clients have problems he has not previously encountered and that he's likely to
continue encountering these problems. As an ethical psychologist, Dr. Swenson should: -
CORRECT|ANSWER
see the clients in therapy but seek consultation with a colleague who has relevant experience
The correct DSM-5 diagnosis for a 12-year-old boy who has two motor tics that began 9 months ago
is: -
CORRECT|ANSWER
provisional tic disorder
Lewin proposed that planned change in organizations involves which of the following -
CORRECT|ANSWER
unfreezing, changing, and refreezing
A researcher would use the split-plot ANOVA to analyze the data she collected in her research study
when -
CORRECT|ANSWER
her study included one between-subjects independent variable and one within-subjects
independent variable
A test's ___________ refers to its ability to correctly identify individuals who are true negatives -
