EPPP Flashcards
STUDY
The most common informal caregivers for older adults with chronic health conditions are family members, the most common primary caregiver is:
A) The spouse or adult daughter.
B) The Adult daughter or son
C) A same-gender sibling
D) Another relative
** Correct Answer is A –> The spouse or adult daughter
A behaviorist would most likely argue that the use of spanking as a behavioral management technique is not effective b/c:
A) It leads to physical child abuse.
B) It fosters a sense of learned helplessness in the child.
C) Changes in behavior aren’t likely to persist over time.
D) Changes in behavior won’t occur at all.
Correct Answer: C –> Changes in behavior are not likely to persist over time.
A Jungian “archetype” is best described as:
A) An organized constellation of feelings, thoughts, and perceptions.
B) A structural component of the collective unconscious.
C) The “mask” adopted by a person in response to social demands.
D) A significant event that occurred during childhood.
Correct: B –> A structural component of the collective unconscious
Which of the following theories of leadership provides a decision tree to help him or her decide whether an autocratic, consultative, or group decision-making style is optimal given the characteristics of the situation?
A) Hersey and Blanchard’s Situational Leadership Model
B) Graen’s Leadership-Member Exchange Model
C) House’s Path-Goal Theory
D) Vroom, Yetton, and Jago’s Leader-Participation Model
D) Vroom, Yetton, and Jago’s Leadership Participation Model
Tom, a 35-year-old television repairman, becomes extremely upset when his boss or co-workers say something unfavorable about his work and is very uncomfortable whever he feels he is being watched at work. He reports having only one close friend, who he says he is very afraid of losing. Tom rarely leaves the house except to go to work, and he tells you that one of the reasons is because he is not a very good driver and he fears he will get into a car accident. Based on this information, the best diagnosis for Tom is:
A) Schizoid Personality Disorder
B) Schizotypal Personality Disorder
C) Avoidant Personality Disorder
D) Dependent Personality DIsorder
C) Avoidant Personality Disorder
As the result of a traumatic head injury sustained in a motor vehicle accident a middle-aged man has mild impairments in judgment, insight, and planning and reduced sexual interest. Damage to which of the following areas of the brain is most likely responsible for those deficits?
A) Dorsolateral prefrontal region
B) Orbitofrontal Region
C) Medial Temporal Region
D) Posterior Parietal Region
A) Dorsolateral Prefrontal Region
The optimal item difficulty (p) for a true false test is:
A) .25
B) .50
C) .75
D) .95
C) .75
The optimal item difficulty is halfway between 100% of examinees answering the item correctly and the likelihood of answering the item correctly by chance alone. For true false items, the probability of choosing the correct answer by chance is .50, so the optimal difficulty level is .75.
Egan & Perry’s (2001) multidimensional model of gender identity consists of five components- membership knowledge; gender typicality; gender contendedness; felt pressure, and:
A) Inter-group Bias
B) Gender Stability
C) Integrative Awareness
D) Gender constacy
A) Intergroup Bias
As defined by these authors, Membership Knowledge -refers to the individual’s knowledge about his/her own gender; Gender Typicality - is the degree to which the individual perceives his/her characteristics as similar to those individuals of the same gender; Gender Contentedness - is the extent to which the individual feels pressure to conform to gender group norms; Felt Pressure - is the degree to which the individual feels pressure to conform to gender group norms; & Intergroup Bias refers to the belief that one’s same-sex group is superior to the other sex group.
George Kelly is associated with which of the following:
A) Reality Therapy
B) Personal Construct Therapy
C) Existential Therapy
D) Solution Focused Therapy
(B) Personal Construct Therapy
(aka constructive alternativism) is based on the premise that people construe (construct) their own experiences. His approach was very influential in the development of narrative-constructivist approaches to therapy.
Social comparison Theory’s predictions about behavior are particularly applicable to:
A) Situations involving uncertainty
B) Inequitable situations
C) People who are working on a difficult task
D) People who belong to a cohesive group.
A) Situations involving uncertainty
According to social comparison theory, people evaluate their own attitudes, abilities, and emotions by comparing themselves with similar others.
When conducting a factor analysis, a researcher would choose an orthogonal (rather than oblique) rotation when:
B) The variables included in the analysis are uncorrelated.
An orthogonal rotation is used when the variables included in the analysis are believed to be uncorrelated.
For example, if you conduct a factor analysis on 50 questionnaire items designed to measure a leader’s task or person orientation and you believe that these two orientations are independent (uncorrelated) you would perform an orthogonal rotation.
Cataplexy is:
A sudden loss of muscle tone that can produce muscle weakness, loss of voluntary muscle control, or postural collapse.
*** Cataplexy is often precipitated by strong emotion and causes flaccid paralysis (loss of muscle tone).
In a study examining affiliation, experimental subjects (introductory psychology students) are told that they will be receiving a series of electric shocks. Subjects are then given the opportunity to either wait alone, wait with other students who will be participating in the same experiment, or wait with other students who are merely waiting to see their faculty advisers. Results of the study will most likely confirm the hypothesis that:
Misery loves miserable company
*** Schachter (1959) found that high anxiety subjects not only prefer to affiliate, but prefer to affiliate with others in similar circumstances in other words, “misery loves miserable company.”
Which of the following drugs would be most useful for reducing neuropathic pain?
Amatriptyline
***Neuropathic pain is chronic pain that is due to a nervous system injury or dysfunction. The first line treatments for neuropathic pain are analgesics, which include certain antidepressants, anticonvulsants, opioids, and local anesthetics.
Antidepressant drugs that increase levels of both serotonin and norepinephrine not only reduce the depression that accompanies neuropathic pain but also have analgesic properties. The tricyclic amitriptyline is one of the oldest and most widely used tricyclic drug for neuropathic pain.
____________ inhibition occurs when the ability to remember new information is imapired by previously acquired information.
Proactive Inhibition - occurs when recently learned information interferes with the ability to recall previously learned information.
