EPPP LATEST 2026 TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Scores on a predictor that will be used to estimate job performance rating range
from 0 to 200. If the predictor's cutoff score is raised from 130 to 150, this will have
which of the following effects?
a) increase the number of true positives
b) increase the number of true positives and true negatives
c) decrease the number of false positives
d) decrease the number of false positives and false negatives - ✔✔c) decrease the
number of false positives
✔✔You are asked by the court to evaluate a 70-year old woman to help determine her
competence. She is apparently disoriented and confused and has substantial memory
loss. You have recently taken a weekend workshop on the use of a new computerized
assessment technique for people with symptoms like those exhibited by this woman,
and you feel this method of assessment would be especially valid in this situation.
Further, you had taken the workshop specifically because you want to expand your
practice by being qualified to conduct competency-related evaluations for the court.
Your best course of action would be to:
a) use the program to assess the woman
b) use the program to assess the woman but, when testifying in court, discuss the
potential limitations of your conclusions
c) use the program to assess the woman but confirm your conclusions before testifying
by consulting with the developer of the assessment technique
d) - ✔✔d) refer the woman to someone who is more familiar with this type of evaluation
✔✔The assessment of patients with Alzheimer's disease is an ongoing process due to
the degenerative nature of the disease and the consequent need to alter the nature of
the treatment plan. During the 4th or 5th years of the disorder, an assessment is most
likely to find which of the following?
a) deficits in new learning with remote memory mildly to moderately impaired; anomia;
sadness
b) severe impairments in recent and remote memory; fluent aphasia; indifference or
irritability; restlessness
c) severe impairments in memory and executive functioning; motor rigidity; confusion
and delusions
d) severely disturbed intellectual functioning; limb rigidity and flexion posture; apathy;
seizures - ✔✔b) severe impairments in recent and remote memory; fluent aphasia;
indifference or irritability; restlessness
✔✔A transactional leader is LEAST likely to agree with which of the following
statements:
a) employee behavior is goal directed and employees will act rationally to achieve their
goals
,b) contingent rewards are effective for motivating good performance
c) the best idea for a boss is to adopt a laissez-faire leadership style
d) each employee will function best if he/she is viewed as an individual and is given
personal attention - ✔✔d) each employee will function best if he/she is viewed as an
individual and is given personal attention
✔✔A researcher wants to investigate the effects of a brief treatment for a group of 10
therapy clients before and after the treatment is applied. She will measure symptom
severity three times at regular intervals before administering the treatment to the clients
and then three times at regular intervals after the clients complete the 10 sessions. The
researcher is using which of the following research designs?
a) multiple baseline
b) ABAB
c) interrupted time-series design
d) nonequivalent control group - ✔✔c) interrupted time-series design
✔✔Work by Perry and colleagues suggests that highly aggressive children:
a) were exposed prenatally to high levels of androgens
b) are less sensitive to physical discomfort than less aggressive children
c) exhibited a disoriented/disengaged attachment pattern as a young child
d) show little remorse after hurting another child - ✔✔d) show little remorse after hurting
another child
✔✔A young girl volunteers to clean her room and do other chores around the house
because she wants her mother's approval and affection. According to Kohlberg, this
child is in which of the following stages of moral development?
a) instrumental
b) conventional
c) postconventional
d) preconventional - ✔✔b) conventional
✔✔According to Sherif's social judgment theory, a person's "latitude of acceptance" is
greatest when:
a) the person has high ego-involvement with the target issue
b) the person has low ego-involvement with the target issue
c) the person has high enjoyment of critical thinking
d) the person has low enjoyment of critical thinking - ✔✔b) the person has low ego-
involvement with the target issue
✔✔Which of the following is not categorized as an Anxiety Disorder in the DSM-5?
a) obsessive-compulsive disorder
b) separation anxiety disorder
c) panic disorder
d) agoraphobia - ✔✔a) obsessive-compulsive disorder
, ✔✔Sedation (drowsiness) is most likely to be a side effect of which of the following
antidepressants?
a) prozac
b) wellbutrin
c) zoloft
d) pamelor - ✔✔d) pamelor
✔✔According to Hans Selye, the body's reaction to sustained stress can be described
in terms of three phases. These phases, in order, are:
a) arousal, readiness, fight or flight
b) alarm, resistance, fight or flight
c) arousal, readiness, exhaustion
d) alarm, resistance, exhaustion - ✔✔d) alarm, resistance, exhaustion
✔✔Left-right confusion is most likely to be caused by a lesion in the:
a) corpus callosum
b) basal forbrain
c) left parietal region
d) right occipital region - ✔✔c) left parietal region
✔✔The notion that there are three major life tasks- friendship, occupation, and love- is
MOST consistent with the philosophy of:
a) Perls
b) Berne
c) Rogers
d) Adler - ✔✔d) Adler
✔✔You would use which of the following to estimate what a predictor's criterion-related
validity coefficient would be if the predictor and/or criterion had a reliability coefficient of
1.0?
a) spearman-brown prophecy formula
b) correction for attenuation formula
c) coefficient of concordance
d) kuder-richardson formula 20 - ✔✔b) correction for attenuation formula
✔✔Participants in a research study are asked to tap with a finger to keep time with a
metronome. After several taps, the metronome is turned off and participants are asked
to continue with the same beat. Participants with damage to which of the following areas
of the brain will have the most difficulty with this task?
a) cerebellum
b) suprachiasmatic nucleus
c) cortex
d) hippocampus - ✔✔a) cerebellum
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Scores on a predictor that will be used to estimate job performance rating range
from 0 to 200. If the predictor's cutoff score is raised from 130 to 150, this will have
which of the following effects?
a) increase the number of true positives
b) increase the number of true positives and true negatives
c) decrease the number of false positives
d) decrease the number of false positives and false negatives - ✔✔c) decrease the
number of false positives
✔✔You are asked by the court to evaluate a 70-year old woman to help determine her
competence. She is apparently disoriented and confused and has substantial memory
loss. You have recently taken a weekend workshop on the use of a new computerized
assessment technique for people with symptoms like those exhibited by this woman,
and you feel this method of assessment would be especially valid in this situation.
Further, you had taken the workshop specifically because you want to expand your
practice by being qualified to conduct competency-related evaluations for the court.
Your best course of action would be to:
a) use the program to assess the woman
b) use the program to assess the woman but, when testifying in court, discuss the
potential limitations of your conclusions
c) use the program to assess the woman but confirm your conclusions before testifying
by consulting with the developer of the assessment technique
d) - ✔✔d) refer the woman to someone who is more familiar with this type of evaluation
✔✔The assessment of patients with Alzheimer's disease is an ongoing process due to
the degenerative nature of the disease and the consequent need to alter the nature of
the treatment plan. During the 4th or 5th years of the disorder, an assessment is most
likely to find which of the following?
a) deficits in new learning with remote memory mildly to moderately impaired; anomia;
sadness
b) severe impairments in recent and remote memory; fluent aphasia; indifference or
irritability; restlessness
c) severe impairments in memory and executive functioning; motor rigidity; confusion
and delusions
d) severely disturbed intellectual functioning; limb rigidity and flexion posture; apathy;
seizures - ✔✔b) severe impairments in recent and remote memory; fluent aphasia;
indifference or irritability; restlessness
✔✔A transactional leader is LEAST likely to agree with which of the following
statements:
a) employee behavior is goal directed and employees will act rationally to achieve their
goals
,b) contingent rewards are effective for motivating good performance
c) the best idea for a boss is to adopt a laissez-faire leadership style
d) each employee will function best if he/she is viewed as an individual and is given
personal attention - ✔✔d) each employee will function best if he/she is viewed as an
individual and is given personal attention
✔✔A researcher wants to investigate the effects of a brief treatment for a group of 10
therapy clients before and after the treatment is applied. She will measure symptom
severity three times at regular intervals before administering the treatment to the clients
and then three times at regular intervals after the clients complete the 10 sessions. The
researcher is using which of the following research designs?
a) multiple baseline
b) ABAB
c) interrupted time-series design
d) nonequivalent control group - ✔✔c) interrupted time-series design
✔✔Work by Perry and colleagues suggests that highly aggressive children:
a) were exposed prenatally to high levels of androgens
b) are less sensitive to physical discomfort than less aggressive children
c) exhibited a disoriented/disengaged attachment pattern as a young child
d) show little remorse after hurting another child - ✔✔d) show little remorse after hurting
another child
✔✔A young girl volunteers to clean her room and do other chores around the house
because she wants her mother's approval and affection. According to Kohlberg, this
child is in which of the following stages of moral development?
a) instrumental
b) conventional
c) postconventional
d) preconventional - ✔✔b) conventional
✔✔According to Sherif's social judgment theory, a person's "latitude of acceptance" is
greatest when:
a) the person has high ego-involvement with the target issue
b) the person has low ego-involvement with the target issue
c) the person has high enjoyment of critical thinking
d) the person has low enjoyment of critical thinking - ✔✔b) the person has low ego-
involvement with the target issue
✔✔Which of the following is not categorized as an Anxiety Disorder in the DSM-5?
a) obsessive-compulsive disorder
b) separation anxiety disorder
c) panic disorder
d) agoraphobia - ✔✔a) obsessive-compulsive disorder
, ✔✔Sedation (drowsiness) is most likely to be a side effect of which of the following
antidepressants?
a) prozac
b) wellbutrin
c) zoloft
d) pamelor - ✔✔d) pamelor
✔✔According to Hans Selye, the body's reaction to sustained stress can be described
in terms of three phases. These phases, in order, are:
a) arousal, readiness, fight or flight
b) alarm, resistance, fight or flight
c) arousal, readiness, exhaustion
d) alarm, resistance, exhaustion - ✔✔d) alarm, resistance, exhaustion
✔✔Left-right confusion is most likely to be caused by a lesion in the:
a) corpus callosum
b) basal forbrain
c) left parietal region
d) right occipital region - ✔✔c) left parietal region
✔✔The notion that there are three major life tasks- friendship, occupation, and love- is
MOST consistent with the philosophy of:
a) Perls
b) Berne
c) Rogers
d) Adler - ✔✔d) Adler
✔✔You would use which of the following to estimate what a predictor's criterion-related
validity coefficient would be if the predictor and/or criterion had a reliability coefficient of
1.0?
a) spearman-brown prophecy formula
b) correction for attenuation formula
c) coefficient of concordance
d) kuder-richardson formula 20 - ✔✔b) correction for attenuation formula
✔✔Participants in a research study are asked to tap with a finger to keep time with a
metronome. After several taps, the metronome is turned off and participants are asked
to continue with the same beat. Participants with damage to which of the following areas
of the brain will have the most difficulty with this task?
a) cerebellum
b) suprachiasmatic nucleus
c) cortex
d) hippocampus - ✔✔a) cerebellum
