EPPP STUDY GUIDE 2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔The stages of change (transtheoretical) model identifies two factors as the primary
predictors of successful transition from one stage to the next. These are:
a) perceived self-efficacy and decisional balance
b) locus of control and level of commitment
c) motivation and persuasibility
d) outcome expectancies and outcome value - ✔✔a) perceived self-efficacy and
decisional balance
✔✔Children normally begin to talk somewhere around their first birthday. Studies
investigating the nature of a child's language development have shown that a large
proportion of a child's first words refer to:
a) objects that the child wants
b) objects that the child can hold
c) objects that are static and invariable
d) objects that move or change - ✔✔d) objects that move or change
✔✔Information on which of the following would be most useful for determining whether
a client's impotence has a physiological or psychological etiology?
a) the presence of nocturnal erections
b) the experience of pain during intercourse
c) the client's level of performance anxiety
d) the presence of diabetes - ✔✔a) the presence of nocturnal erections
✔✔To use the Taylor-Russell tables to evaluate a new selection test, you need
information about which of the following?
a) predictor cutoff, criterion cutoff, and hit rate
b) base rate, hit rate, and selection ratio
c) base rate, selection ratio, and validity coefficient
d) base rate, hit rate, and predictor cutoff - ✔✔c) base rate, selection ratio, and validity
coefficient
✔✔As reported by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the largest number of
reported cases of chlamydia and gonorrhea is for:
a) males ages 15 to 19
b) males ages 20 to 24
c) females ages 15 to 19
d) males ages 20 to 24 - ✔✔c) females ages 15 to 19
✔✔Singh and Young found that, when men were asked to rate women in terms of
attractiveness, health, and desirability as a romantic partner, they gave the highest
ratings to females with:
a) large breasts and narrow hips
,b) large breasts and broad hips
c) small breasts and narrow hips
d) small breasts and broad hips - ✔✔a) large breasts and narrow hips
✔✔A structural family therapist's interventions when working with a triangulated family
will be designed to:
a) foster insight in order to establish more appropriate hierarchies and boundaries
b) create stress in order to unbalance the family's homeostasis
c) dilute the tension between family members in order to reduce triangulation
d) alter the family's implicit and explicit rules in order to increase differentiation - ✔✔b)
create stress in order to unbalance the family's homeostasis
✔✔MDD has been linked to all of the following sleep disturbances except:
a) reduced stage 3 and stage 4 sleep
b) increase slow-wave (non-REM) sleep
c) decreased REM latency
d) decreased sleep continuity - ✔✔b) increase slow-wave (non-REM) sleep
✔✔From the perspective of traditional psychoanalysis, transference is:
a) an impediment to therapy progress
b) a form of resistance
c) a form of catharsis
d) an ego defense mechanism - ✔✔b) a form of resistance
✔✔Research investigating the effects of normal aging on memory has found that:
a) semantic memory is affected more than episodic and procedural memory
b) episodic memory is affected more than semantic and procedural memory
c) procedural memory is affected more than episodic and semantic memory
d) normal aging has a similar impact on semantic, episodic, and procedural memory -
✔✔b) episodic memory is affected more than semantic and procedural memory
✔✔For individuals with Schizophrenia, the poorest prognosis is associated with which of
the following?
a) female gender, younger age at onset, and predominant negative symptoms
b) female gender, older age at onset, and predominant positive symptoms
c) male gender, younger age at onset, and predominant negative symptoms
d) male gender, older age at onset, and predominant positive symptoms - ✔✔c) male
gender, younger age at onset, and predominant negative symptoms
✔✔Probably the best way to memorize pairs of unrelated words is to:
a) create an acronym
b) repeat the word pairs over and over again
c) create a visual image that links each word pair
d) using the clustering technique - ✔✔c) create a visual image that links each word pair
, ✔✔After several sessions with her therapist, a client starts acting toward the therapist
as though he were the client's father. Assuming that the therapist is a practitioner of
Gestalt therapy, he is most likely to respond to this transference by:
a) ignoring it
b) temporarily assuming the role of the client's father
c) helping the client see the difference between her transference and reality
d) helping the client understand how her past relationship with her father is affecting her
current relationships with men - ✔✔c) helping the client see the difference between her
transference and reality
✔✔Research evaluation the predictive validity of structured interviews as hiring tools in
organizations suggests that:
a) structured interviews are the most valid predictors of performance across different
jobs
b) when used alone, structured interviews are no more valid as predictors of
performance than unstructured interviews
c) the validity of structured interviews as predictors of performance is increased when
the interview includes both structured and unstructured items
d) the validity of structured interviews as predictors of performance is increased when
the interview is used in combination with a measure of general mental ability - ✔✔d) the
validity of structured interviews as predictors of performance is increased when the
interview is used in combination with a measure of general mental ability
✔✔When using an ABAB research design, causality is suggested when:
a) the target behavior changes only when the treatment is applied to each baseline
b) the target behavior reverts to original baseline levels when the treatment is withdrawn
c) the target behavior is not altered by the second baseline manipulation
d) the target behavior changes in the treated conditions only - ✔✔b) the target behavior
reverts to original baseline levels when the treatment is withdrawn
✔✔Surveys of heterosexual men and women have found that, with regard to sexual
satisfaction in mid- to late-adulthood:
a) men report being more physically and emotionally satisfied with their current sexual
relationships than women do
b) women report being more physically and emotionally satisfied with their current
sexual relationships than men do
c) men and women report nearly identical levels of physical and emotional satisfaction
with their current sexual relationships
d) men report being more physically satisfied but women report being more emotionally
satisfied with their current relationships - ✔✔a) men report being more physically and
emotionally satisfied with their current sexual relationships than women do
✔✔During your first session with Mr. and Mrs. Desvelo, Mr. Desvelo says his wife has
insisted that he get "some help" with his sleep problems. Mrs. Desvelo states that she's
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔The stages of change (transtheoretical) model identifies two factors as the primary
predictors of successful transition from one stage to the next. These are:
a) perceived self-efficacy and decisional balance
b) locus of control and level of commitment
c) motivation and persuasibility
d) outcome expectancies and outcome value - ✔✔a) perceived self-efficacy and
decisional balance
✔✔Children normally begin to talk somewhere around their first birthday. Studies
investigating the nature of a child's language development have shown that a large
proportion of a child's first words refer to:
a) objects that the child wants
b) objects that the child can hold
c) objects that are static and invariable
d) objects that move or change - ✔✔d) objects that move or change
✔✔Information on which of the following would be most useful for determining whether
a client's impotence has a physiological or psychological etiology?
a) the presence of nocturnal erections
b) the experience of pain during intercourse
c) the client's level of performance anxiety
d) the presence of diabetes - ✔✔a) the presence of nocturnal erections
✔✔To use the Taylor-Russell tables to evaluate a new selection test, you need
information about which of the following?
a) predictor cutoff, criterion cutoff, and hit rate
b) base rate, hit rate, and selection ratio
c) base rate, selection ratio, and validity coefficient
d) base rate, hit rate, and predictor cutoff - ✔✔c) base rate, selection ratio, and validity
coefficient
✔✔As reported by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the largest number of
reported cases of chlamydia and gonorrhea is for:
a) males ages 15 to 19
b) males ages 20 to 24
c) females ages 15 to 19
d) males ages 20 to 24 - ✔✔c) females ages 15 to 19
✔✔Singh and Young found that, when men were asked to rate women in terms of
attractiveness, health, and desirability as a romantic partner, they gave the highest
ratings to females with:
a) large breasts and narrow hips
,b) large breasts and broad hips
c) small breasts and narrow hips
d) small breasts and broad hips - ✔✔a) large breasts and narrow hips
✔✔A structural family therapist's interventions when working with a triangulated family
will be designed to:
a) foster insight in order to establish more appropriate hierarchies and boundaries
b) create stress in order to unbalance the family's homeostasis
c) dilute the tension between family members in order to reduce triangulation
d) alter the family's implicit and explicit rules in order to increase differentiation - ✔✔b)
create stress in order to unbalance the family's homeostasis
✔✔MDD has been linked to all of the following sleep disturbances except:
a) reduced stage 3 and stage 4 sleep
b) increase slow-wave (non-REM) sleep
c) decreased REM latency
d) decreased sleep continuity - ✔✔b) increase slow-wave (non-REM) sleep
✔✔From the perspective of traditional psychoanalysis, transference is:
a) an impediment to therapy progress
b) a form of resistance
c) a form of catharsis
d) an ego defense mechanism - ✔✔b) a form of resistance
✔✔Research investigating the effects of normal aging on memory has found that:
a) semantic memory is affected more than episodic and procedural memory
b) episodic memory is affected more than semantic and procedural memory
c) procedural memory is affected more than episodic and semantic memory
d) normal aging has a similar impact on semantic, episodic, and procedural memory -
✔✔b) episodic memory is affected more than semantic and procedural memory
✔✔For individuals with Schizophrenia, the poorest prognosis is associated with which of
the following?
a) female gender, younger age at onset, and predominant negative symptoms
b) female gender, older age at onset, and predominant positive symptoms
c) male gender, younger age at onset, and predominant negative symptoms
d) male gender, older age at onset, and predominant positive symptoms - ✔✔c) male
gender, younger age at onset, and predominant negative symptoms
✔✔Probably the best way to memorize pairs of unrelated words is to:
a) create an acronym
b) repeat the word pairs over and over again
c) create a visual image that links each word pair
d) using the clustering technique - ✔✔c) create a visual image that links each word pair
, ✔✔After several sessions with her therapist, a client starts acting toward the therapist
as though he were the client's father. Assuming that the therapist is a practitioner of
Gestalt therapy, he is most likely to respond to this transference by:
a) ignoring it
b) temporarily assuming the role of the client's father
c) helping the client see the difference between her transference and reality
d) helping the client understand how her past relationship with her father is affecting her
current relationships with men - ✔✔c) helping the client see the difference between her
transference and reality
✔✔Research evaluation the predictive validity of structured interviews as hiring tools in
organizations suggests that:
a) structured interviews are the most valid predictors of performance across different
jobs
b) when used alone, structured interviews are no more valid as predictors of
performance than unstructured interviews
c) the validity of structured interviews as predictors of performance is increased when
the interview includes both structured and unstructured items
d) the validity of structured interviews as predictors of performance is increased when
the interview is used in combination with a measure of general mental ability - ✔✔d) the
validity of structured interviews as predictors of performance is increased when the
interview is used in combination with a measure of general mental ability
✔✔When using an ABAB research design, causality is suggested when:
a) the target behavior changes only when the treatment is applied to each baseline
b) the target behavior reverts to original baseline levels when the treatment is withdrawn
c) the target behavior is not altered by the second baseline manipulation
d) the target behavior changes in the treated conditions only - ✔✔b) the target behavior
reverts to original baseline levels when the treatment is withdrawn
✔✔Surveys of heterosexual men and women have found that, with regard to sexual
satisfaction in mid- to late-adulthood:
a) men report being more physically and emotionally satisfied with their current sexual
relationships than women do
b) women report being more physically and emotionally satisfied with their current
sexual relationships than men do
c) men and women report nearly identical levels of physical and emotional satisfaction
with their current sexual relationships
d) men report being more physically satisfied but women report being more emotionally
satisfied with their current relationships - ✔✔a) men report being more physically and
emotionally satisfied with their current sexual relationships than women do
✔✔During your first session with Mr. and Mrs. Desvelo, Mr. Desvelo says his wife has
insisted that he get "some help" with his sleep problems. Mrs. Desvelo states that she's
