10 free, exam-style Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology (EPPP) (EPPP) practice questions with answers and explanations. No signup required. Work through them below, then take the full free EPPP practice test to study every exam domain.
The EPPP exam has 225 questions and runs 4 hours 15 minutes.
These 10 free EPPP questions are organized by exam domain, so you can see how each part of the Examination for Professional Practice in Psychology (EPPP) blueprint is tested. Reveal the answer and explanation under each question.
A casino patron continues feeding money into a slot machine for hours despite repeated losses, because a payout could come at any moment. The persistence of this behavior, and its strong resistance to extinction, is BEST explained by which schedule of reinforcement?
Correct answer: D - Variable-ratio
An observer watches a stranger trip on a sidewalk and immediately concludes the person is 'clumsy and careless,' giving no thought to the uneven pavement or poor lighting. This judgment is the clearest example of:
Correct answer: B - The fundamental attribution error
A child is shown two identical balls of clay. The examiner rolls one into a long, thin snake and asks whether the two pieces still contain the same amount of clay. The child insists the snake has more 'because it's longer.' According to Piaget, this child has NOT yet mastered the task because they are in which stage?
Correct answer: A - Preoperational
A newly developed depression scale yields nearly identical scores when the same stable clients are retested two weeks apart, yet its scores show almost no relationship to well-established depression measures or clinical diagnoses. This pattern indicates the scale is:
Correct answer: A - Reliable but not valid
A screening instrument for a rare disorder is described as having high sensitivity but low specificity. In practice, this means the instrument will tend to:
Correct answer: D - Produce a high number of false-positive results
A psychologist must select an instrument to evaluate a Spanish-speaking client recently arrived from another country. The strongest justification for choosing a particular test is that it has been:
Correct answer: B - Normed and validated for the client's language and cultural group
A client referred for help with heavy drinking states, 'I don't really see my drinking as a problem, and I'm not planning to change anything.' Using the Transtheoretical (Stages of Change) Model, the clinician should recognize the client as being in which stage and respond accordingly?
Correct answer: A - Precontemplation
A researcher concludes that a new therapy significantly outperforms a control condition. Unknown to the researcher, the two conditions are actually equally effective, and the result occurred by chance. The researcher has committed which error?
Correct answer: D - A Type I error
During a session, a client makes a credible, specific threat to seriously harm an identifiable former coworker. Following the precedent set by the second Tarasoff ruling, the psychologist's PRIMARY legal obligation is best described as a duty to:
Correct answer: C - Take reasonable steps to protect the intended victim
A psychologist is treating an adult client when the client's spouse calls, expresses concern, and asks what was discussed in the most recent session. Absent a signed authorization or a legally recognized exception, the MOST appropriate response is to:
Correct answer: C - Decline to confirm or disclose any information about the client
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