EPPP Practice Exam Questions Latest Update 2024-2025 150 Questions and 100% Verified Correct Answers Guaranteed A+ A therapist using Beck's cognitive approach to therapy would rely primarily on which
michroskill to induce desirable changes in a depressed client - CORRECT ANSWER:
Questioning - a very important strategy in Beck's cognitive therapy and, in fact, the majority of communications by the therapist take the form of questions designed to help the client consider particular issues, options, and so on.
absence seizures - CORRECT ANSWER: Absence or Petit Mal Seizures are very brief
(30 seconds or less) and are characterized by minimal motor activity and a lack of awareness. Absence seizures usually begin in childhood and most outgrow the condition by adulthood. Researchers believe that absence seizures originate in the thalamus (the central relay station for sensory information going to the cortex).
AIDS dementia complex - CORRECT ANSWER: cognitive impairment associated with
HIV.-occurs in about 2/3 of all AIDS patients. Usually, one of the first cognitive signs of dementia (both in AIDS and non-AIDS patients) is a loss of concentration and a mild memory loss, especially for recent events.
Alderian - CORRECT ANSWER: For Adlerians, a desire to belong is a primary
motivator of behavior, but this desire may be channeled into the mistaken goals of power, attention, inadequacy, or revenge., Feelings of inferiority contribute to problems in children and adults
Teological approach-behavior is shaped by future goals (NOT the past) Innate social interest motivates people, ways to fulfill social responsibility
Key Concepts:
Inferiority feelings Striving for superiority Style of Life Social Interest
Inferiority feeling develop during childhood while striving for superiority. Ways a person tries to compensate for inferiority and achieve superiority determines one's style of life
Personality is determined by age 46
Three major life tasks could be:
- Love
- Friendship
- Occupation 1 / 3
focus on prevention
Alzheimer's is related to under production of - CORRECT ANSWER: acetylcholine
Beck's cognitive therapy - CORRECT ANSWER: A type of cognitive therapy developed by Aaron Beck in which the therapist works to develop a warm relationship with the person and has the person carefully consider the evidence for her beliefs in order to see the errors in her thinking ("collaborative empiricism").-also emphasizes relatpse prevention, structure and goal-oriented
behavioral contrast effect - CORRECT ANSWER: If we are reinforced for performing two different operants, and reinforcement for one of these behaviors stops, we tend to increase the rate of the remaining reinforced behavior. That is probably because the reinforcement that remains seems to become more valuable.
blocking - CORRECT ANSWER: Blocking occurs when a CS is presented
simultaneously with a second stimulus just before the US. Although it would seem that the second stimulus should acquire the properties of a CS from this procedure, that's not what happens. Instead, the second stimulus does not produce a conditioned response.
brain basis of Parkinson's disease - CORRECT ANSWER: basal ganglia
Broca's aphasia - CORRECT ANSWER: Broca's aphasia is characterized by difficulty expressing language, including difficulty repeating words just spoken and recalling the name of familiar objects
Bronfenbrenner's ecological model - CORRECT ANSWER: -microsystem: immediate environment, face-to-face rx (rx w/ parents, siblings, school, neighbors, etc) -mesosystem: interactions btwn components of microsystem (influence of family on bx at school)
-exosystem: broader environ that affects child's environ
(parents' workplace, school board, community, media)
-macrosystem: overarching environ influences
(cultural beliefs/practice, econ conditions, political ideologies) -chronosystem: environ events over lifetime that impact them (immediate and LT effects of change in family structure/ SES)
California Tarasoff Statute - CORRECT ANSWER: gives clinicians explicit guidance about when a duty to act arises and tells clinicians what actions fulfill their duty. The first Tarasoff decision established a "duty to warn," however, the case was reheard several years later and the Tarasoff II decision modified the duty to warn to a "duty to protect." -"issues implicated by the Tarasoff case and its legal progeny account for a small percentage of forensic cases." 2 / 3
Cannon-Bard (emotion theory) - CORRECT ANSWER: Cannon-Bard (a.) states
physiological and emotional arousal are experienced at the same time.-theory of emotion that says that a stimulus causes simultaneously psyiological arousal and the subjective experience of an emotion
capitation - CORRECT ANSWER: A common method of reimbursement used primarily
by health maintenance organizations in which the provider or medical facility is paid a fixed, per capita amount for each individual enrolled in the plan, regardless of how many or few services the patient uses.
Catell and Horn's theory of intelligence - CORRECT ANSWER: Distinguishes between fluid and crystallized intelligence, and visual-spatial reasoning.
central limit theorem - CORRECT ANSWER: the shape of a sampling distribution of
means approaches normality as sample size increases
Central tendency bias - CORRECT ANSWER: A rater rating all individuals using the middle range of a rating scale is exhibiting the central tendency bias
Cluster analysis - CORRECT ANSWER: used to identify homogeneous subgroups in a
heterogeneous collection of observations
coalition (family therapy) - CORRECT ANSWER: In family therapy, the term coalition refers to an alliance of two family members against a third. According to Minuchin, dysfunctional families are sometimes characterized by stable coalitions of a parent and a child against the other parent.
cognitive dissonance - CORRECT ANSWER: The theory that we act to reduce the
discomfort we feel when two of our thoughts are inconsistent. For example, when our awareness of our attitudes and our actions clash, we can reduce the resulting dissonance by changing our attitudes.A person is motivated to reduce the negative, aversive state that results when his or her cognitions conflict with each other. From the perspective of this theory, the poor client paying a very high fee would experience a state of dissonance. Therefore, this client, more than those in the other responses, would be motivated to believe that he or she is benefitting from therapy.
complex partial seizure disorder - CORRECT ANSWER: formerly known as temporal
lobe epilepsy, originates in the temporal lobe
Conduction aphasia - CORRECT ANSWER: Difficulty repeating words just spoken and
recalling the name of familiar objects are characteristic of all three disorders.
- due to damage to the nerve fibers that connect Broca's to Wernicke's area and the
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most typical result is difficulty repeating what one has heard.