EPPP Part 1 (Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology) Practice Test
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| Administering body | Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards (ASPPB) — exam delivered by Pearson VUE |
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| Questions | 225 questions (175 scored, 50 unscored pretest) |
| Time limit | 255 minutes |
| Passing score | Scaled score of 500 on a 200–800 scale |
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| Languages offered | English · French |
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- 1. Biological Bases of Behavior
After a left-hemisphere stroke, a 62-year-old speaks in slow, effortful, telegraphic phrases, follows everyday conversation reasonably well, and is visibly frustrated by his own errors. Damage to which region best accounts for this picture?
- a.The arcuate fasciculus linking the language areas
- b.The right-hemisphere homologue of Broca's area
- c.Wernicke's area in the left superior temporal gyrus
- d.Broca's area in the left inferior frontal gyrus
Answer: d
Explanation: Nonfluent, effortful speech with relatively preserved comprehension and awareness of errors is the pattern Broca described in 1861 and that NIDCD lists as Broca's (nonfluent) aphasia. Wernicke's area damage produces fluent but meaningless speech with poor comprehension, and arcuate fasciculus damage produces conduction aphasia, marked by poor repetition with fluent speech. Right-hemisphere damage in a right-handed adult does not usually produce aphasia of this kind.
- 2. Cognitive-Affective Bases of Behavior
Whenever a child screams at dinner, his father removes the vegetables from the plate and the screaming stops; the father now removes the vegetables sooner and more often. What maintains the father's behavior?
- a.Extinction
- b.Negative punishment
- c.Negative reinforcement
- d.Positive reinforcement
Answer: c
Explanation: The father's behavior (removing vegetables) increases because it ends an aversive stimulus, the screaming; removing an aversive stimulus to strengthen a behavior is negative reinforcement (Skinner, 1953). Positive reinforcement adds a stimulus, negative punishment removes a pleasant stimulus to weaken behavior, and extinction is the withholding of reinforcement, none of which fits a behavior that is growing more frequent.
- 3. Cognitive-Affective Bases of Behavior
Preschoolers who already liked drawing were told they would get a 'Good Player' certificate for drawing. Weeks later, during free play, they drew less than children who got no reward or an unexpected one. What best explains the drop?
- a.Unexpected rewards lowered interest just as much
- b.The expected reward undermined their intrinsic interest
- c.All tangible rewards raise later free-choice activity
- d.The certificate acted as a punisher for drawing
Answer: b
Explanation: Lepper, Greene and Nisbett (1973) found that only the expected-reward group showed reduced later interest, the overjustification effect that self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan) attributes to rewards being experienced as controlling. The unexpected-reward group did not decline, the certificate was not an aversive consequence, and the finding contradicts the claim that tangible rewards always increase later interest.
- 4. Social and Cultural Bases of Behavior
In the Robbers Cave study, hostility between two groups of boys was most effectively reduced by:
- a.Keeping the groups apart for a cooling-off period
- b.Pleasant shared contact such as meals and movies
- c.Lectures on the value of getting along
- d.Cooperation toward superordinate goals
Answer: d
Explanation: Sherif and colleagues (1961) found that simple pleasant contact often turned into further conflict, and that hostility fell substantially only when the groups had to work together toward goals neither could reach alone. Lectures and separation were not what reduced hostility in the study.
- 5. Growth and Lifespan Development
A cross-sectional study finds that 70-year-olds score lower than 30-year-olds on a reasoning test. What is the main alternative explanation to age-related decline?
- a.Cohort differences in education and experience
- b.Practice effects from repeated testing of the same people
- c.Selective dropout of lower-scoring participants over time
- d.Regression toward the mean across repeated testings
Answer: a
Explanation: A cross-sectional design compares different people born in different eras, so age differences are confounded with cohort differences in schooling, health and experience, a problem Schaie's Seattle Longitudinal Study documented. Practice effects, selective attrition and regression across testings arise when the same people are measured repeatedly, which a single cross-sectional testing does not involve.
- 6. Assessment and Diagnosis
A new anxiety scale correlates .65 with an established anxiety measure and .08 with a vocabulary test. Together these results provide evidence of:
- a.Test-retest and alternate-forms reliability
- b.Predictive criterion-related validity
- c.Content validity
- d.Convergent and discriminant validity
Answer: d
Explanation: High correlation with a measure of the same construct (convergent) and low correlation with a measure of an unrelated construct (discriminant) are the two sides of construct validity in Campbell and Fiske's (1959) multitrait-multimethod framework, building on Cronbach and Meehl (1955). Reliability concerns consistency of the same test, content validity concerns sampling of the content domain, and predictive validity requires a later criterion.
- 7. Assessment and Diagnosis
In a county, 200 new cases of depression were diagnosed this year among 10,000 residents who were free of depression at the start of the year. What does this figure describe?
- a.Incidence
- b.Point prevalence
- c.Relative risk
- d.Lifetime prevalence
Answer: a
Explanation: CDC's Principles of Epidemiology defines incidence as the occurrence of new cases in a population at risk over a specified period, here 200 per 10,000 per year. Prevalence counts all existing cases (new and old) at a point or over a lifetime, and relative risk compares the risk in two groups.
- 8. Treatment, Intervention, Prevention, and Supervision
A school district offers a coping-skills group to every child whose parents are going through a divorce, whether or not the child has symptoms. Under the Institute of Medicine prevention framework, this program is:
- a.Indicated prevention
- b.Selective prevention
- c.Universal prevention
- d.Relapse prevention
Answer: b
Explanation: The Institute of Medicine (1994) classification, drawing on Gordon (1983), defines selective prevention as targeting subgroups at elevated risk, here children of divorcing parents, regardless of symptoms. Universal prevention targets a whole population, indicated prevention targets individuals already showing early signs or symptoms, and relapse prevention concerns people who have already been treated.
- 9. Research Methods and Statistics
A researcher records how many men and how many women choose each of three treatment options and wants to know whether choice is related to gender. The appropriate test is:
- a.A chi-square test
- b.A Pearson correlation
- c.A one-way analysis of variance
- d.An independent-samples t-test
Answer: a
Explanation: Both variables are nominal and the data are frequencies, so a chi-square test of independence is used. ANOVA and the t-test compare means of an interval or ratio outcome across groups, and Pearson correlation requires two continuous variables.
- 10. Ethical, Legal, and Professional Issues
A psychologist wants peer consultation on a difficult case. Under APA Standard 4.06, what should she do?
- a.Share only necessary, non-identifying information
- b.Avoid consultation because it breaches confidentiality
- c.Share the full record so the consultant has complete context
- d.Obtain written consent even if no identifying information is shared
Answer: a
Explanation: Standard 4.06 says that when consulting, psychologists do not disclose information that could reasonably identify the client unless they have prior consent or disclosure cannot be avoided, and they share information only to the extent necessary for the consultation. Consent is not required for de-identified consultation, sharing the full record exceeds what is necessary, and consultation is permitted and encouraged.