EPPP Practice Test 6 Wrong

Question 1

What type of amnesia does ECT cause?

Answer 1

patchy anterograde amnesia and temporary retrograde amnesia.

Question 2

Dissociative Identity Disorder involves the existence in one individual of

Answer 2

two or more distinct personality states or the experience of possession.

Question 3

What do group therapy members view as the most important factors?

Answer 3

Interpersonal input, catharsis, cohesiveness, and self-understanding

Question 4

Existential therapy

Answer 4

view anxiety as an inevitable condition of life

distinguish between normal and neurotic anxiety (out of proportion to the situation and can be immobilizing)

normal (existential) anxiety can serve as a source of motivation to change.

Question 5

when is there an exception to informed consent in testing (non-forensic)

Answer 5

informed consent is implied because testing is conducted as a routine educational, institutional, or organizational activity (e.g., when participants voluntarily agree to assessment when applying for a job)

Question 6

What do you do when state law and HIPAA requirements differ?

Answer 6

HIPAA requirement would preempt state law when it provides the client with greater privacy protection or control over access to his/her records

Question 7

what do you do if you discover one protected group are being hired at a substantially lower rate than others?

Answer 7

Conduct a validation study to determine job-relatedness and business necessity of test measures

Question 8

career concept

Answer 8

individual’s internalized model of how a career should unfold

career-related identity

Question 9

length and capacity of memory stores

Answer 9

sensory: very large store, very brief (~1 sec)

short-term: limited capacity (5-9) and a limited duration (~30 seconds)

long-term: large capacity, long duration

Question 10

speech progression by age

Answer 10

birth - crying

6-8 weeks - cooing

4 months - babbling

9-14 months - sounds narrow to native

10-15 months - first words

13 months - 50 words

18-24 months - telegraphic

~27 months - prepositions

Question 11

effects of FAS

Answer 11

intellectual disability, impaired attention and memory, hyperactivity, impaired motor coordination, impulsivity, and poor judgmen

Question 12

how does each child respond in the strange situation?

Answer 12

secure - sad when mom leaves, happy when returns

i/ambivalent - distress when mom leaves, difficult to comfort when return

i/avoidant - no distress when mom leaves, does not seek when returns

disorganized - fear, dazed/confused

Question 13

Acetylcholine

Answer 13

voluntary muscle movement

REM sleep, the sleep-wake cycle, learning, and memory

Alzheimers

Question 14

Expressive aphasia

Answer 14

Broca’s aphasia

Question 15

Receptive aphasia

Answer 15

Wernicke’s aphasia

Question 16

Conduction aphasia

Answer 16

anomia and word substitution

Question 17

Global aphasia

Answer 17

extensive disruption in the ability to produce and understand language.

Question 18

How does one typically respond to approach-avoid conflicts?

Answer 18

As the time grows nearer, both positives and negatives feel more salient, but the negatives especially so

Question 19

p (test consutruction)

Answer 19

item difficulty

0 (very difficult) - 1 (very easy)

Question 20

Sensitivity

Answer 20

proportion of people with the condition who are correctly identified

Question 21

Specificity

Answer 21

proportion of people who do not have the condition who are correctly identified by the test

Question 22

orthogonal v oblique rotations

Answer 22

oblique - correlated
orthogonal - uncorrelated

Question 23

item response theory

Answer 23

involves making an item characteristic curve