EPPP PSYCHOLOGY LICENSING EXAM (2025 LATEST
UPDATE) ACTUAL EXAM 200 QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|GRADED A+
BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
1. Which of the following describes postconcussion syndrome?
• 1. Irritability, fatigue, and headaches.
• 2. Loss of consciousness for minutes to an hour.
• 3. Loss of consciousness for hours to days.
•4. Headaches and numbness on one side of the body. -CORRECTANSWER 1.
Irritability, fatigue, and headaches. (correct CORRECTANSWER, your response)
ETHICAL/LEGAL/PROFESSIONAL ISSUES
2. According to the Tarasoff II ruling:
• 1. a therapist has a duty to protect when he or she becomes aware of a potential
homicidal situation in the course of therapy.
• 2. when a patient admits to homicidal intent and there is a "reasonably identifiable
victim," the therapist has a duty to warn the intended victim as well as the police.
• 3. when a patient admits to homicidal intent, the therapist must attempt to warn the
intended victim and must tell the police, as well as take further steps such as securing
medications or hospitalization for the patient.
• 4. when a patient admits to vague homicidal intent, the therapist must ascertain who
the intended victim is. -CORRECTANSWER 3. when a patient admits to homicidal
,intent, the therapist must attempt to warn the intended victim and must tell the police, as
well as take further steps such as securing medications or hospitalization for the patient.
(correct CORRECTANSWER)
GROWTH AND LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT
3. Several school age children are playing handball during recess. Which of the
following statements might be made if the children are in Piaget's stage of autonomous
morality?
• 1. It's okay to change the rules if we all agree.
• 2. It is wrong to break the rules of the game.
• 3. You're cheating, so I'm not going to play anymore.
• 4. You're cheating, so I'm going to tell on you. -CORRECTANSWER 1. It's okay to
change the rules if we all agree. (correct CORRECTANSWER)
RESEARCH METHODS AND STATISTICS
4. Meta-analysis involves:
• 1. combining the results of different studies into an effect size while assigning greater
weight to studies that are of better quality.
• 2. reanalyzing data from different studies and combining the results into an effect size.
• 3. comparing different studies and calculating an effect size without taking into
consideration how each study was conducted.
• 4. combining the results of studies into an effect size. -CORRECTANSWER 4.
combining the results of studies into an effect size. (correct CORRECTANSWER)
,SOCIAL AND MULTICULTURAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
5. Which of the following is true regarding the influence of members of a group who hold
minority views?
• 1. Minority views are likely to have an immediate effect on the group if the group who
holds minority views is relatively large.
• 2. Minority views are more likely to have a delayed effect on the group provided that
group members with minority views persist in their views.
• 3. Minority views are more likely to have an influence on the group when members
who hold minority views make a small concession early in the discussion.
• 4. Minority views are more likely to have an influence on the group when the minority
voice is met with relatively little disapproval by group members who hold majority views.
-CORRECTANSWER 2. Minority views are more likely to have a delayed effect on the
group provided that group members with minority views persist in their views. (correct
CORRECTANSWER)
ETHICAL/LEGAL/PROFESSIONAL ISSUES
6. You terminate short-term treatment with a patient who was diagnosed with an
adjustment disorder. Several weeks later, you receive a phone call from the patient,
who tells you that he feels depressed and is experiencing suicidal intent. What would be
the best response to this situation?
• 1. Refer the patient to another therapist since treatment was terminated several weeks
ago.
, • 2. Meet with him once to assess his current situation and then refer him out.
• 3. See him until the crisis subsides.
• 4. Resume treatment and address the underlying roots of the current depression. -
CORRECTANSWER 3. See him until the crisis subsides. (correct CORRECTANSWER,
your response)
TREATMENT, INTERVENTION AND PREVENTION
7. According to the "Big 5" model, the five basic personality traits are:
• 1. neuroticism, conscientiousness, agreeableness, extroversion, openness to
experience.
• 2. introversion/extroversion, stability/instability, normality/psychoticism, less
intelligent/more intelligent, trusting/suspicious.
• 3. reserved/outgoing, affected by feeling/emotionally stable, submissive/dominant,
practical/imaginative, self-assured/apprehensive.
• 4. social, conventional, artistic, enterprising, investigative. -CORRECTANSWER 1.
neuroticism, conscientiousness, agreeableness, extroversion, openness to experience.
(correct CORRECTANSWER, your response)
BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
8. When in a state of relaxed wakefulness, which brain waves predominate?
• 1. Alpha.
• 2. Beta.
• 3. Theta.
UPDATE) ACTUAL EXAM 200 QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (VERIFIED ANSWERS)
|GRADED A+
BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
1. Which of the following describes postconcussion syndrome?
• 1. Irritability, fatigue, and headaches.
• 2. Loss of consciousness for minutes to an hour.
• 3. Loss of consciousness for hours to days.
•4. Headaches and numbness on one side of the body. -CORRECTANSWER 1.
Irritability, fatigue, and headaches. (correct CORRECTANSWER, your response)
ETHICAL/LEGAL/PROFESSIONAL ISSUES
2. According to the Tarasoff II ruling:
• 1. a therapist has a duty to protect when he or she becomes aware of a potential
homicidal situation in the course of therapy.
• 2. when a patient admits to homicidal intent and there is a "reasonably identifiable
victim," the therapist has a duty to warn the intended victim as well as the police.
• 3. when a patient admits to homicidal intent, the therapist must attempt to warn the
intended victim and must tell the police, as well as take further steps such as securing
medications or hospitalization for the patient.
• 4. when a patient admits to vague homicidal intent, the therapist must ascertain who
the intended victim is. -CORRECTANSWER 3. when a patient admits to homicidal
,intent, the therapist must attempt to warn the intended victim and must tell the police, as
well as take further steps such as securing medications or hospitalization for the patient.
(correct CORRECTANSWER)
GROWTH AND LIFESPAN DEVELOPMENT
3. Several school age children are playing handball during recess. Which of the
following statements might be made if the children are in Piaget's stage of autonomous
morality?
• 1. It's okay to change the rules if we all agree.
• 2. It is wrong to break the rules of the game.
• 3. You're cheating, so I'm not going to play anymore.
• 4. You're cheating, so I'm going to tell on you. -CORRECTANSWER 1. It's okay to
change the rules if we all agree. (correct CORRECTANSWER)
RESEARCH METHODS AND STATISTICS
4. Meta-analysis involves:
• 1. combining the results of different studies into an effect size while assigning greater
weight to studies that are of better quality.
• 2. reanalyzing data from different studies and combining the results into an effect size.
• 3. comparing different studies and calculating an effect size without taking into
consideration how each study was conducted.
• 4. combining the results of studies into an effect size. -CORRECTANSWER 4.
combining the results of studies into an effect size. (correct CORRECTANSWER)
,SOCIAL AND MULTICULTURAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
5. Which of the following is true regarding the influence of members of a group who hold
minority views?
• 1. Minority views are likely to have an immediate effect on the group if the group who
holds minority views is relatively large.
• 2. Minority views are more likely to have a delayed effect on the group provided that
group members with minority views persist in their views.
• 3. Minority views are more likely to have an influence on the group when members
who hold minority views make a small concession early in the discussion.
• 4. Minority views are more likely to have an influence on the group when the minority
voice is met with relatively little disapproval by group members who hold majority views.
-CORRECTANSWER 2. Minority views are more likely to have a delayed effect on the
group provided that group members with minority views persist in their views. (correct
CORRECTANSWER)
ETHICAL/LEGAL/PROFESSIONAL ISSUES
6. You terminate short-term treatment with a patient who was diagnosed with an
adjustment disorder. Several weeks later, you receive a phone call from the patient,
who tells you that he feels depressed and is experiencing suicidal intent. What would be
the best response to this situation?
• 1. Refer the patient to another therapist since treatment was terminated several weeks
ago.
, • 2. Meet with him once to assess his current situation and then refer him out.
• 3. See him until the crisis subsides.
• 4. Resume treatment and address the underlying roots of the current depression. -
CORRECTANSWER 3. See him until the crisis subsides. (correct CORRECTANSWER,
your response)
TREATMENT, INTERVENTION AND PREVENTION
7. According to the "Big 5" model, the five basic personality traits are:
• 1. neuroticism, conscientiousness, agreeableness, extroversion, openness to
experience.
• 2. introversion/extroversion, stability/instability, normality/psychoticism, less
intelligent/more intelligent, trusting/suspicious.
• 3. reserved/outgoing, affected by feeling/emotionally stable, submissive/dominant,
practical/imaginative, self-assured/apprehensive.
• 4. social, conventional, artistic, enterprising, investigative. -CORRECTANSWER 1.
neuroticism, conscientiousness, agreeableness, extroversion, openness to experience.
(correct CORRECTANSWER, your response)
BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
8. When in a state of relaxed wakefulness, which brain waves predominate?
• 1. Alpha.
• 2. Beta.
• 3. Theta.
