1. A high LPC leader
a. Treats his least favorite worker well
b. Treats his least favorite worker poorly
c. Treats his favorite worker like his
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d. Has an ambivalent style toward his workers.ī Correct Answer: 1. A-- Fiedler's Contingency Theory proposed that in terms of a leader's style and the favorableness of a situation, the latter was determined by the degree to which the leader could control and influence their subordinate. Fiedler described a leader's style by his or her scores on his Least Preferred Coworker Scale. A high LPC leader describes their least preferred coworker in positive terms and these leaders are primarily relationship oriented. Note that the question talks about how a leader "treats" their worker rather than how they "describe" the worker.. While these are not exactly the same concepts, the EPPP will take these type of liberties so this is an example of choosing an answer that is in the "ballpark".
2. From Wolpe's classical conditioning perspective, neurotic depression:
a. is a conditioned response that can be alleviated through extinction trials in which the neutral (conditioned) stimulus is
repeatedly presented without the depression-inducing (unconditioned) stimulus.
b. is a response to anxiety and can, therefore, be alleviated by using systematic desensitization to eliminate the anxiety.
c. is due to attributional biases that, through conditioning, have become associated with certain types of events and can be
eliminated through reattribution training.
d. results when there is an absence of response contingent reinforcement and is best treated by counterconditioning in which
depression is paired with a variety of pleasure-producing (unconditioned) stimuli. Correct Answer: 2. B-- Even if you are unfamiliar with Wolpe's explanation of depression, you may have been able to pick the right answer to this question as long as you have him associated with systematic desensitization. Wolpe distinguished between several types of depression. He linked neurotic depression to anxiety and considered systematic desensitization to be an effective treatment.
3. You receive a letter from the current therapist of a former client. The therapist wants you to forward a copy of the client's records, and she encloses a signed release from the client. The client still owes you for ten therapy sessions, and you notify the client that you will not release the records until a satisfactory payment arrangement has been made. According to the Ethics Code, this
a. is clearly unethical.
b. may be acceptable if the client's records are not "imminently needed."
c. may be acceptable if you had informed the client of your policy when he began treatment.
d. may be acceptable if you previously attempted to collect the fees and the client was uncooperative. Correct Answer: 3. B-- This issue is covered by Standard 6.03 of the Ethics Code, which states that "Psychologists may not withhold records under their control that are requested and needed for a client's/patient's emergency treatment solely because payment has not been received."
4. To reduce their liability risk, managed care organizations are most likely to do which of the following?
a. insure their providers are credentialed
b. reduce the amount of time between date of claim submission and approval of claim
c. utilization review
d. pay their providers a reasonable reimbursement rate Correct Answer: 4. A-- Managed care organizations typically require all their providers to be credentialed. This helps to insure that their providers are competent and, consequently, reduces their risk of liability. Utilization Review (C) is a cost containment procedure involving an evaluation of patients' use of services to identify any unnecessary or inappropriate use of health care resources.
5. A professional working in the field of psychophysics would be most interested in:
a. the all-or-none principle.
b. just noticeable differences.
c. functional brain imaging.
d. long-term potentiation. Correct Answer: 5. B-- Psychophysics is the study of the relationship between the magnitude of a physical stimulus and the internal sensation associated with that magnitude. One method for studying this relationship is to determine just noticeable differences, or the amount of change in physical stimulus magnitude that is needed to notice the change.
6. According to Ellen Berscheid's Emotion-in-Relationships Model partners in long-term relationships are most likely to:
a. underestimate their emotional investment in the relationship when things are running smoothly
b. overestimate their emotional investment in the relationship when things are running smoothly
c. experience the most intense positive emotions after several years into the relationship
d. focus on attributions which are external to their partners and themselves to understand their relationship Correct Answer: 6. A-- Ellen Berscheid's Emotion-in-Relationships Model proposes that positive and negative emotions are most likely to occur in a relationship when the partner's behavior interrupts the individual's typical on-going behaviors. Thus, when things are running smoothly, there are fewer interruptions and less intense emotions. Although the partners are highly interdependent during this period, they are also more likely to [Show Less]