EPPP STUDY GUIDE EXAM PREP QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 2026

EPPP STUDY GUIDE EXAM PREP QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 2026


◉ Parkinson's Disease
Answer: Motor disease characterized by shaking, rigidity, slowness
of movement, and difficulty walking; caused by lack of dopamine in
substantia nigra


◉ Korsakoff's Syndrome
Answer: A neurological disease resulting in loss of declarative
memory, caused by depletion of thiamine, usually due to long-term
alcohol abuse


◉ Symptoms of Korsakoff's
Answer: Anterograde amnesia, retrograde amnesia, confabulation,
apathy, limited content in conversations, lack of insight


◉ Anterograde Amnesia
Answer: Inability to form new memories


◉ Retrograde Amnesia

,Answer: Inability to recall memories prior to an event


◉ Confabulation
Answer: Creating false memories or distorting real memories


◉ Apathy
Answer: Lack of emotion


◉ Sensory memory
Answer: Memory of stimuli after stimuli is removed; lasts less than a
second


◉ Short-term memory
Answer: Temporary immediate recall of information for processing;
lasts less than a minute


◉ Chunking
Answer: Combining items into groups


◉ Working Memory
Answer: Ability to manipulate mental information

, ◉ Explicit Memory
Answer: Information consciously remembered


◉ Implicit Memory
Answer: Information unconsciously remembered


◉ Procedural Memory
Answer: Action-based information: processes, working memory, etc


◉ Declarative Memory
Answer: Intentionally recalled information


◉ Episodic Memory
Answer: Information based in experiences


◉ Semantic Memory
Answer: Facts, figures, dates, etc


◉ Long-term Memory
Answer: Stored memory


◉ Broca's Aphasia