EPPP Exam Questions with Detailed Verified
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The relationship between nature and intellectual decline
✓✓ increase in response time
The strongest evidence of addiction to substance
✓✓ Physiological tolerance and withdrawal
The most common neuropsychological complication of AIDS
✓✓ Dementia
What is the function of correction of attenuation
✓✓ Estimate the correlation between two variables if one or
both could be measured without error
If a research results indicated a contradictory findings to your
initial hypotheses. In addition, a moderation effects was found.
Your co-worker suggested that you don't report the moderation
effects given that it is tangential to the main research question
of the study. You should:
✓✓ Not take your co-worker's suggestion because this will be
unethical. It conflicts with the psychologist's responsibility to
report completely the results of research project
Thordike's Law of Effects
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✓✓ A reward tends to increase the probability of recurrence of
the response it follows.
Children's typically take their first steps around the age of?
✓✓ 12 months
Tonic-clonic seizures occurs most frequently in..
✓✓ Grand mal epilepsy
Complex partial seizures occur in which part of the brain
✓✓ Temporal lobe
Women who have had abortions ..
✓✓ the psychological consequences are no worse than women
who have chosen to continue their pregnancies and gave birth.
Under the research on persuasion, the degree to which the
receiver's initial position will change when....
✓✓ The communicator is credible; the effect will be greater
when there is a larger discrepancy between the communicator's
position and the receiver's initial position
A 10-year old boy who obtained an IQ score of 130. Two years
later, he was tested with an alternative form of the same test.
Most likely, the obtained score on the second testing would be:
✓✓ Less than 130
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Specific deleterious effects of unpredictable nose could be
reduced by...
✓✓ Allowing the individual to terminate the noise if it becomes
intolerable
Afferent sensory pathways
✓✓ Thalamus
Meta-analysis on the relationship between marital discord and
child behavior problems showed that
✓✓ Boys are more likely than girls to manifest an immediate
behavior problem
When interpreting and reporting test results, one should
✓✓ Focus on the confidence interval of a score rather than only
on the obtained score itself.
Feminist therapy
✓✓ - Self-disclosure by the psychologist is specifically
recommended and frequently applied.
- Egalitarian relationship b/w therapist and client
- seeing client's problems in their sociopolitical context
- Encourage trust and respect for other women
Anxiety induced by reading about a car accident some months
after having had a car accident is best described as an instance
of
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✓✓ Mediated generalization
Intrinsic-motivational theory
✓✓ Predicts a decrease in productivity as the external reward
increases
Maternal employment on children's development...
✓✓ In families of LOW SES, both sons and daughters of
working mothers perform better on measures of cognitive
development than those of non-working mother.
Assessment centers uses a specific personnel selection method
called...
✓✓ Performance-based assessment
Psychoanalytic theory suggests that anxiety arises from..
✓✓ A failure of defenses to modulate excitation adequately
Diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease can be most accurately
verified by
✓✓ Brain biopsy
Adlerian theory conceptualizes a child's intention behind their
misdemeanor as..
✓✓ To confirm an assumed disability, or to get attention,
power, or revenge