EPPP PRACTICE TEST 4 ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND

EPPP PRACTICE TEST 4 (ACTUAL / ) QUESTIONS AND

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In using an empirical criterion keying approach to construct a

personality inventory, a researcher with select items that:

• Have a high correlation with each other and a low

correlation with outside criteria

• Discriminate among various criterion groups
• Have high criterion-related validity coefficients
• Provide an empirical support for the personality traits

measured - ---Answers___b. Discriminate among various criterion groups

Involves choosing items based on their ability to discriminate between different criterion groups.

• e.g., items were included in the schizophrenia scale of the

MMPI if people with schizophrenia responded positively to those items while people without schizophrenia responded negatively to them.

In what way does the jigsaw classroom differ from a regular classroom?

• The teacher lectures, and then students work together to

complete assignments

• Students compete with one another to enhance performance 1 / 4

• The classroom is unstructured, allowing students to learn at

their own pace

• Students teach each other, thus fostering interdependence -

---Answers___d. Students teach each other, thus fostering interdependence

A 35 year old unemployed woman was rear-ended in her car.At the time of the accident, she hit her head against the windshield and briefly lost consciousness. She comes to your office one week later, complaining that she is feeling anxious, is having difficulty sleeping, and is experiencing problems with concentration and memory. Her presentation is most

consistent with:

• Acute stress disorder
• Head injury
• Somatic symptom disorder
• Malingering - ---Answers___b. Head injury

Characteristic of post-concussion syndrome.

Reactance describes:

• a client's behavior that inhibits the progress of therapy.
• emphasizing undesirable thoughts and behaviors.
• refusing to comply with a suggestion.
• turning back onto oneself what one wants to do to others - -

--Answers___c. refusing to comply with a suggestion.

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Occurs when people feel pressured by a message, thus resulting in the person experiencing a loss of, or a threat to, their perceptual freedom and increase the resistance to persuasion.

• Results either in an individual performing a behavior that's

opposite of the desired behavior, or a refusal to comply.

A gradual decrease in an unconditioned response due to

repeated presentation of the unconditioned stimulus is termed:

• Classical extinction
• Satiation
• Habituation
• Operant extinction - ---Answers___c. Habituation

Concept from classical conditioning when a person repeatedly exposed to an unconditioned stimulus, and as a result, the unconditioned response eventually decreases.

All of the following are common characteristics of those who

experience empty nest syndrome, except:

• Being in an unstable marriage
• Relying on rules for self identity
• Being full-time parents
• Being younger parents - ---Answers___d. Being younger

parents

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Experiences more common in older parents, such as retirement and menopause, can exacerbate the symptoms of empty nest syndrome.

Rotating a factor analysis:

• Facilitates the interpretation of factors
• Is only useful when the factors are correlated
• Is only useful when the factors are not correlated
• Eliminates non-significant eigenvalues - ---Answers___a.

Facilitates the interpretation of factors

If a test has made more difficult, this will have an effect of:

• Decreasing the true positives and decreasing the true

negatives

• Decreasing the false positives and increasing the true

negatives

• Increasing the true positives and decreasing false negatives
• Increasing false positives and increasing false negatives - -

--Answers___b. Decreasing the false positives and increasing the true negatives

Making the test more difficult raises the cut off on the predictor test.

• When the predictor cutoff is raised, both the number of false

positives and the number of true positives are decreased. The number of true negatives and the number of false negatives are increased.

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