EPPP CORE EXAM 2026 TEST QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Dr. Dither is hired by the court to conduct an evaluation of a family as part of a child
protection matter. Based on Dr. Dither's evaluation and other evidence, the court
determines that the child can remain at home with his family who will be provided with
supervision and counseling. Six months after the case is heard in court, Dr. Dither is
contacted by the mother who says she would like to begin therapy with him for issues
unrelated to the child protection matter. According to APA's Guidelines for Psychological
Evaluations in Child Protection Matters, Dr. Dither should:
a. agree to see the woman in therapy since the child protection matter has been
resolved.
b. agree to see the woman in therapy only if her problem is, in fact, unrelated to the
child protection matter.
c. agree to see the women in therapy since his familiarity with her situation will be an
advantage.
d. refer the woman to a colleague. - ✔✔d.
✔✔Conduct Disorder frequently co-occurs with ADHD. Which of the following is NOT
true about children with both disorders?
a. They have higher rates of social maladjustment than children with ADHD only.
b. They have more extensive cognitive difficulties and poorer school achievement than
children with ADHD only.
c. They have poorer long-term outcomes and a higher risk of adult psychopathology
than children with ADHD only.
d. They often have a less favorable response to stimulant medication than children with
ADHD only. - ✔✔b.
✔✔From the perspective of Rational Emotive Therapy:
a. irrational beliefs are acquired primarily through social learning processes.
b. irrational beliefs are acquired largely through the process of selective reinforcement.
c. people are biologically prone to the acquisition of irrational beliefs.
d. people adopt irrational beliefs as the result of early traumatic events that are still
unresolved. - ✔✔c.
✔✔Work by Perry and Busey (1977) 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 young children.
d. show little remorse after hurting another child. - ✔✔d.
✔✔Androgens and estrogens are secreted by the:
a. gonads only.
b. gonads and adrenal glands.
c. gonads and pituitary gland.
,d. gonads and pineal gland. - ✔✔b.
✔✔Which of the following is most relevant to equity theory?
a. Rosenthal effect
b. social comparison theory
c. drive theory
d. buffering hypothesis - ✔✔b.
✔✔Subjects learn a task while under the influence of a CNS stimulant. Three days later,
half of the subjects are tested while under the influence of the drug; the other half are
tested while drug-free. Subjects who have been given the drug perform better on the
task during testing. This result is predicted by which of the following?
a. state dependent memory
b. proactive facilitation
c. drug-dependence effect
d. priming - ✔✔a.
✔✔Unilateral ECT to the right hemisphere would most likely produce:
a. predominantly anterograde amnesia involving nonverbal material.
b. predominantly anterograde amnesia involving verbal material.
c. predominantly retrograde amnesia involving nonverbal material.
d. predominantly retrograde amnesia involving verbal material. - ✔✔a.
✔✔You are hired by a community mental health center as an outside consultant to help
one of the clinicians develop a treatment plan for a difficult client. This type of
consultation is referred to as:
a. consultee-centered case consultation.
b. client-centered case consultation.
c. client-administrative case consultation.
d. consultee-administrative case consultation. - ✔✔b.
✔✔An adolescent's adoption of a "ready-made" identity that was formulated by a parent
or other authority figure is referred to as:
a. foreclosure.
b. moratorium.
c. fusion.
d. emersion. - ✔✔a.
✔✔A split-brain patient would be able to do which of the following?
a. say the word "spoon" after it is projected to his left visual field
b. repeat a series of letters that have been whispered in his left ear
c. identify an odor that has been presented to his right nostril
d. identify a spoon with his left hand after an image of a spoon is projected to his left
visual field - ✔✔d.
,✔✔With regard to the effects of age on global job satisfaction, the best conclusion is
that these variables have:
a. a U-shaped relationship.
b. an inverted U-shaped relationship.
c. an inverse relationship.
d. a positive relationship. - ✔✔d.
✔✔When using the technique known as the Premack Principle, the reinforcer is:
a. applied intermittently.
b. a generalized conditioned reinforcer.
c. a behavior that occurs frequently.
d. a stimulus that naturally elicits the desired behavior. - ✔✔c.
✔✔The research suggests that which of the following would be least useful for the
treatment of alcoholism?
a. social-skills training
b. stress management training
c. antidepressant medication
d. anxiolytic medication - ✔✔d.
✔✔In discussing a depressed client, a therapist says the client's problems are due to
the fact that she did not experience normal grief following the death of her mother. He
says that the focus of treatment will be on helping the client go through the grieving
process and restore her interests and friendships so that she can overcome her loss.
Apparently, this therapist is a practitioner of:
a. rational-emotive therapy.
b. interpersonal therapy.
c. object-relations therapy.
d. reality therapy. - ✔✔b.
✔✔According to Kohlberg, moral development is directly related to:
a. changes in cognitive skills.
b. changes in cognitive skills and social perspective-taking.
c. changes in cognitive skills and socioemotional status.
d. sociocultural influences and changes. - ✔✔b.
✔✔A person with apraxia has:
a. deficits in memory.
b. trouble recognizing objects by touch.
c. impaired procedural memory.
d. difficulty carrying out intentional movements. - ✔✔d.
, ✔✔When using Beck's cognitive approach to therapy with a client with Obsessive-
Compulsive Disorder:
a. exposure in vivo or in imagination is not considered beneficial because it produces
strong emotions that interfere with cognitive work.
b. exposure in vivo or in imagination is conducted only when the symptoms are so
severe that they are interfering with cognitive work and must be alleviated quickly.
c. exposure in vivo or in imagination is considered useful for eliciting "hot cognitions"
related to the disorder so that they are available for cognitive work.
d. exposure in imagination is considered more useful than exposure in vivo because it
elicits target cognitions without the strong emotions that may interfere with cognitive
work. - ✔✔c.
✔✔Bill B., a 34-year old small business owner, has trouble completing tasks at home
and work, frequently "blows his fuse" at family members and employees, and has his
wife do all the paperwork at the office because he doesn't have the patience for it. His
wife says Bill never listens to her and often does things without thinking about the
consequences. When asked about his past, Bill says that he often got in trouble while
he was in school. He frequently got into fights and, in high school, was arrested several
times for drugs and drunk driving. All through school, his teachers said he wasn't living
up to his potential. Although Bill no longer uses illegal drugs, he often drinks heavily on
weekends. Based on these symptoms, the most likely diagnosis for Bill is:
a. Antisocial Personality Disorder.
b. Borderline Personality Disorder.
c. ADHD.
d. Bipolar Disorder. - ✔✔c.
✔✔According to Sue and Zane (1987), in terms of ensuring good treatment outcomes,
the most important factor in culturally-sensitive therapy is:
a. demonstrating cultural knowledge.
b. using culture-specific techniques.
c. using techniques that establish credibility.
d. being authentic and empathic. - ✔✔c.
✔✔Kohlberg argued that there is a monotonic relationship between moral judgment and
moral action and proposed that, as one moves from a lower to a higher stage of moral
development:
a. the range of possible moral actions becomes narrower and the individual assumes
greater responsibility for relating his or her judgments to actions.
b. the range of possible moral actions becomes broader and the individual assumes
greater responsibility for relating his or her judgments to actions.
c. the range of possible moral actions remains the same but the individual assumes
greater responsibility for relating his or her judgments to actions.
d. the range of possible moral actions becomes narrower but the individual's sense of
responsibility for relating his or her judgments to actions remains about the same. -
✔✔a.
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✔✔Dr. Dither is hired by the court to conduct an evaluation of a family as part of a child
protection matter. Based on Dr. Dither's evaluation and other evidence, the court
determines that the child can remain at home with his family who will be provided with
supervision and counseling. Six months after the case is heard in court, Dr. Dither is
contacted by the mother who says she would like to begin therapy with him for issues
unrelated to the child protection matter. According to APA's Guidelines for Psychological
Evaluations in Child Protection Matters, Dr. Dither should:
a. agree to see the woman in therapy since the child protection matter has been
resolved.
b. agree to see the woman in therapy only if her problem is, in fact, unrelated to the
child protection matter.
c. agree to see the women in therapy since his familiarity with her situation will be an
advantage.
d. refer the woman to a colleague. - ✔✔d.
✔✔Conduct Disorder frequently co-occurs with ADHD. Which of the following is NOT
true about children with both disorders?
a. They have higher rates of social maladjustment than children with ADHD only.
b. They have more extensive cognitive difficulties and poorer school achievement than
children with ADHD only.
c. They have poorer long-term outcomes and a higher risk of adult psychopathology
than children with ADHD only.
d. They often have a less favorable response to stimulant medication than children with
ADHD only. - ✔✔b.
✔✔From the perspective of Rational Emotive Therapy:
a. irrational beliefs are acquired primarily through social learning processes.
b. irrational beliefs are acquired largely through the process of selective reinforcement.
c. people are biologically prone to the acquisition of irrational beliefs.
d. people adopt irrational beliefs as the result of early traumatic events that are still
unresolved. - ✔✔c.
✔✔Work by Perry and Busey (1977) 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 young children.
d. show little remorse after hurting another child. - ✔✔d.
✔✔Androgens and estrogens are secreted by the:
a. gonads only.
b. gonads and adrenal glands.
c. gonads and pituitary gland.
,d. gonads and pineal gland. - ✔✔b.
✔✔Which of the following is most relevant to equity theory?
a. Rosenthal effect
b. social comparison theory
c. drive theory
d. buffering hypothesis - ✔✔b.
✔✔Subjects learn a task while under the influence of a CNS stimulant. Three days later,
half of the subjects are tested while under the influence of the drug; the other half are
tested while drug-free. Subjects who have been given the drug perform better on the
task during testing. This result is predicted by which of the following?
a. state dependent memory
b. proactive facilitation
c. drug-dependence effect
d. priming - ✔✔a.
✔✔Unilateral ECT to the right hemisphere would most likely produce:
a. predominantly anterograde amnesia involving nonverbal material.
b. predominantly anterograde amnesia involving verbal material.
c. predominantly retrograde amnesia involving nonverbal material.
d. predominantly retrograde amnesia involving verbal material. - ✔✔a.
✔✔You are hired by a community mental health center as an outside consultant to help
one of the clinicians develop a treatment plan for a difficult client. This type of
consultation is referred to as:
a. consultee-centered case consultation.
b. client-centered case consultation.
c. client-administrative case consultation.
d. consultee-administrative case consultation. - ✔✔b.
✔✔An adolescent's adoption of a "ready-made" identity that was formulated by a parent
or other authority figure is referred to as:
a. foreclosure.
b. moratorium.
c. fusion.
d. emersion. - ✔✔a.
✔✔A split-brain patient would be able to do which of the following?
a. say the word "spoon" after it is projected to his left visual field
b. repeat a series of letters that have been whispered in his left ear
c. identify an odor that has been presented to his right nostril
d. identify a spoon with his left hand after an image of a spoon is projected to his left
visual field - ✔✔d.
,✔✔With regard to the effects of age on global job satisfaction, the best conclusion is
that these variables have:
a. a U-shaped relationship.
b. an inverted U-shaped relationship.
c. an inverse relationship.
d. a positive relationship. - ✔✔d.
✔✔When using the technique known as the Premack Principle, the reinforcer is:
a. applied intermittently.
b. a generalized conditioned reinforcer.
c. a behavior that occurs frequently.
d. a stimulus that naturally elicits the desired behavior. - ✔✔c.
✔✔The research suggests that which of the following would be least useful for the
treatment of alcoholism?
a. social-skills training
b. stress management training
c. antidepressant medication
d. anxiolytic medication - ✔✔d.
✔✔In discussing a depressed client, a therapist says the client's problems are due to
the fact that she did not experience normal grief following the death of her mother. He
says that the focus of treatment will be on helping the client go through the grieving
process and restore her interests and friendships so that she can overcome her loss.
Apparently, this therapist is a practitioner of:
a. rational-emotive therapy.
b. interpersonal therapy.
c. object-relations therapy.
d. reality therapy. - ✔✔b.
✔✔According to Kohlberg, moral development is directly related to:
a. changes in cognitive skills.
b. changes in cognitive skills and social perspective-taking.
c. changes in cognitive skills and socioemotional status.
d. sociocultural influences and changes. - ✔✔b.
✔✔A person with apraxia has:
a. deficits in memory.
b. trouble recognizing objects by touch.
c. impaired procedural memory.
d. difficulty carrying out intentional movements. - ✔✔d.
, ✔✔When using Beck's cognitive approach to therapy with a client with Obsessive-
Compulsive Disorder:
a. exposure in vivo or in imagination is not considered beneficial because it produces
strong emotions that interfere with cognitive work.
b. exposure in vivo or in imagination is conducted only when the symptoms are so
severe that they are interfering with cognitive work and must be alleviated quickly.
c. exposure in vivo or in imagination is considered useful for eliciting "hot cognitions"
related to the disorder so that they are available for cognitive work.
d. exposure in imagination is considered more useful than exposure in vivo because it
elicits target cognitions without the strong emotions that may interfere with cognitive
work. - ✔✔c.
✔✔Bill B., a 34-year old small business owner, has trouble completing tasks at home
and work, frequently "blows his fuse" at family members and employees, and has his
wife do all the paperwork at the office because he doesn't have the patience for it. His
wife says Bill never listens to her and often does things without thinking about the
consequences. When asked about his past, Bill says that he often got in trouble while
he was in school. He frequently got into fights and, in high school, was arrested several
times for drugs and drunk driving. All through school, his teachers said he wasn't living
up to his potential. Although Bill no longer uses illegal drugs, he often drinks heavily on
weekends. Based on these symptoms, the most likely diagnosis for Bill is:
a. Antisocial Personality Disorder.
b. Borderline Personality Disorder.
c. ADHD.
d. Bipolar Disorder. - ✔✔c.
✔✔According to Sue and Zane (1987), in terms of ensuring good treatment outcomes,
the most important factor in culturally-sensitive therapy is:
a. demonstrating cultural knowledge.
b. using culture-specific techniques.
c. using techniques that establish credibility.
d. being authentic and empathic. - ✔✔c.
✔✔Kohlberg argued that there is a monotonic relationship between moral judgment and
moral action and proposed that, as one moves from a lower to a higher stage of moral
development:
a. the range of possible moral actions becomes narrower and the individual assumes
greater responsibility for relating his or her judgments to actions.
b. the range of possible moral actions becomes broader and the individual assumes
greater responsibility for relating his or her judgments to actions.
c. the range of possible moral actions remains the same but the individual assumes
greater responsibility for relating his or her judgments to actions.
d. the range of possible moral actions becomes narrower but the individual's sense of
responsibility for relating his or her judgments to actions remains about the same. -
✔✔a.
