EPPP LATEST 2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
RATED A+
✔✔Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder - ✔✔term in DSM-IV-TR
-individual with this disorder has not used drug recently, but has re-experienced 1+ of
perceptual symptoms or "flashbacks" experienced while intoxicated, such as geometric
hallucinations, intensified colors, etc.
-few cases reported
reexperiencing of hallucinations following cessation of use of a hallucinogen.
✔✔Substance-Induced Psychotic Disorder - ✔✔can be caused by intoxication or
withdrawal from many different substances but the symptoms must occur within a
month of intoxication or withdrawal and the person must not have insight that the
hallucinations (or delusions) are substance induced.
✔✔Consuming foods containing tyramine while taking a MAOI would most likely result
int - ✔✔Eating foods containing tyramine while taking MAOIs is likely to cause a
hypertensive crisis, that is, a severe rise in blood pressure. The person may also
experience headache, diaphoresis (perspiration), and palpitations. On rare occasions
the combination has caused cardiac failure and cerebral hemorrhage. Some of the
foods that must be avoided while taking MAOIs include: beer and wine, aged cheese,
beef or chicken liver, orange pulp, pickled or smoked meats, packaged soups, and
yeast vitamin supplements.
✔✔MAOI - ✔✔Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitor
Drug effective for depression; any of a group of antidepressant drugs that inhibit the
action of monoamine oxidase in the brain and so allow monoamines to accumulate
✔✔self-directed work teams - ✔✔Self-directed work teams are self-directed; i.e., they
determine their own goals, plan their own work processes, and may even hire their own
replacements. A distinguishing characteristic of self-directed work teams is that
members are generalists (versus specialists), and each member has (or learns) a broad
range of skills. A possible downside of self-directed work teams is that they are
associated with higher absenteeism than more traditional work groups.
✔✔Guilford theory of intelligence - ✔✔J.P. Guilford identified 120 elements using factor
analysis that he proposed in sum comprise intelligence. Convergent thinking is the
ability to group or analyze divergent ideas usually leading to a unifying concept or single
solution. Divergent thinking is the ability to generate creative, new ideas or to elaborate
or branch off from traditional approaches, such as in brainstorming or "thinking out of
the box."
✔✔Galton theory of intelligence - ✔✔Galton (a.) postulated that intelligence is an
inherited trait distributed normally across the population.
, ✔✔Thurstone's theory of intelligence - ✔✔Thurstone (b.) applied his method of factor
analysis to intelligence leading to his proposed theory of Primary Mental Abilities (that
individuals possess varying degrees of sub-components of intelligence).
✔✔Catell and Horn's theory of intelligence - ✔✔Distinguishes between fluid and
crystallized intelligence, and visual-spatial reasoning.
✔✔confirmatory bias - ✔✔seek, interpret, and create information that verifies our
existing beliefs.
✔✔Self-serving bias - ✔✔tendency to attribute one's successes to internal factors and
one's failures to external factors
✔✔fundamental attribution bias or error - ✔✔tendency to overestimate dispositional
(personality) factors and underestimate situational factors in explaining a person's
behavior
✔✔Alzheimer's is related to under production of - ✔✔acetylcholine
✔✔Huessman et al., 2003; childhood exposure to tv violence - ✔✔Unlike studies on
children growing up in the 1960's which found aggressive behavior only in males,
Huesmann et al. (2003) found childhood exposure to TV violence is stimulating an
increase in adult aggression in males and females. This effect persists even when the
effects of socioeconomic status, intellectual ability, and a variety of parenting factors are
controlled. More childhood exposure to TV violence, greater childhood identification with
same-sex aggressive TV characters, and a stronger childhood belief that violent shows
tell about life "just like it is" predicted more adult aggression regardless of the initial
aggressiveness of the child.
✔✔sexual dimorphism - ✔✔refers to any consistent differences between males and
females in size or shape. Sexual dimorphism enables animals to readily identify males
and females of their species which serves to facilitate mating.
✔✔The cortex is the least developed part of the brain at birth. Subsequent development
is due primarily to - ✔✔myelination of existin neurons; Nearly all of the neurons are
present at birth, and continued development of the brain following birth is due primarily
to an increased number of dendrites and myelination of the existing neurons.
✔✔The symptoms of OCD can be alleviated through CB treatments and medication
interventions that reduce activity in the - ✔✔caudate nucleaus
The caudate nucleus appears to be overactive in people diagnosed with OCD. L.R.
Baxter (1992) reports that both behavioral interventions and drug therapy affect
metabolic rate in the caudate nucleus.
RATED A+
✔✔Hallucinogen Persisting Perception Disorder - ✔✔term in DSM-IV-TR
-individual with this disorder has not used drug recently, but has re-experienced 1+ of
perceptual symptoms or "flashbacks" experienced while intoxicated, such as geometric
hallucinations, intensified colors, etc.
-few cases reported
reexperiencing of hallucinations following cessation of use of a hallucinogen.
✔✔Substance-Induced Psychotic Disorder - ✔✔can be caused by intoxication or
withdrawal from many different substances but the symptoms must occur within a
month of intoxication or withdrawal and the person must not have insight that the
hallucinations (or delusions) are substance induced.
✔✔Consuming foods containing tyramine while taking a MAOI would most likely result
int - ✔✔Eating foods containing tyramine while taking MAOIs is likely to cause a
hypertensive crisis, that is, a severe rise in blood pressure. The person may also
experience headache, diaphoresis (perspiration), and palpitations. On rare occasions
the combination has caused cardiac failure and cerebral hemorrhage. Some of the
foods that must be avoided while taking MAOIs include: beer and wine, aged cheese,
beef or chicken liver, orange pulp, pickled or smoked meats, packaged soups, and
yeast vitamin supplements.
✔✔MAOI - ✔✔Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitor
Drug effective for depression; any of a group of antidepressant drugs that inhibit the
action of monoamine oxidase in the brain and so allow monoamines to accumulate
✔✔self-directed work teams - ✔✔Self-directed work teams are self-directed; i.e., they
determine their own goals, plan their own work processes, and may even hire their own
replacements. A distinguishing characteristic of self-directed work teams is that
members are generalists (versus specialists), and each member has (or learns) a broad
range of skills. A possible downside of self-directed work teams is that they are
associated with higher absenteeism than more traditional work groups.
✔✔Guilford theory of intelligence - ✔✔J.P. Guilford identified 120 elements using factor
analysis that he proposed in sum comprise intelligence. Convergent thinking is the
ability to group or analyze divergent ideas usually leading to a unifying concept or single
solution. Divergent thinking is the ability to generate creative, new ideas or to elaborate
or branch off from traditional approaches, such as in brainstorming or "thinking out of
the box."
✔✔Galton theory of intelligence - ✔✔Galton (a.) postulated that intelligence is an
inherited trait distributed normally across the population.
, ✔✔Thurstone's theory of intelligence - ✔✔Thurstone (b.) applied his method of factor
analysis to intelligence leading to his proposed theory of Primary Mental Abilities (that
individuals possess varying degrees of sub-components of intelligence).
✔✔Catell and Horn's theory of intelligence - ✔✔Distinguishes between fluid and
crystallized intelligence, and visual-spatial reasoning.
✔✔confirmatory bias - ✔✔seek, interpret, and create information that verifies our
existing beliefs.
✔✔Self-serving bias - ✔✔tendency to attribute one's successes to internal factors and
one's failures to external factors
✔✔fundamental attribution bias or error - ✔✔tendency to overestimate dispositional
(personality) factors and underestimate situational factors in explaining a person's
behavior
✔✔Alzheimer's is related to under production of - ✔✔acetylcholine
✔✔Huessman et al., 2003; childhood exposure to tv violence - ✔✔Unlike studies on
children growing up in the 1960's which found aggressive behavior only in males,
Huesmann et al. (2003) found childhood exposure to TV violence is stimulating an
increase in adult aggression in males and females. This effect persists even when the
effects of socioeconomic status, intellectual ability, and a variety of parenting factors are
controlled. More childhood exposure to TV violence, greater childhood identification with
same-sex aggressive TV characters, and a stronger childhood belief that violent shows
tell about life "just like it is" predicted more adult aggression regardless of the initial
aggressiveness of the child.
✔✔sexual dimorphism - ✔✔refers to any consistent differences between males and
females in size or shape. Sexual dimorphism enables animals to readily identify males
and females of their species which serves to facilitate mating.
✔✔The cortex is the least developed part of the brain at birth. Subsequent development
is due primarily to - ✔✔myelination of existin neurons; Nearly all of the neurons are
present at birth, and continued development of the brain following birth is due primarily
to an increased number of dendrites and myelination of the existing neurons.
✔✔The symptoms of OCD can be alleviated through CB treatments and medication
interventions that reduce activity in the - ✔✔caudate nucleaus
The caudate nucleus appears to be overactive in people diagnosed with OCD. L.R.
Baxter (1992) reports that both behavioral interventions and drug therapy affect
metabolic rate in the caudate nucleus.
