ASPPB Study Guide 2026
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📋 ASPPB Exam Format at a Glance
📚 ASPPB Topics to Study (71)
✍️ Sample ASPPB Questions & Answers
1. In motivational interviewing, the acronym OARS refers to which set of core skills?
OARS stands for Open questions, Affirmations, Reflections, and Summaries — the foundational communication techniques in motivational interviewing.
2. Research on stereotype threat shows that performance deficits occur most reliably when targets:
Stereotype threat impairs performance when individuals are aware that a negative stereotype about their group could confirm in a relevant testing situation.
3. A client reports drinking heavily every weekend to cope with social anxiety. When planning treatment, the psychologist should address:
Comorbid anxiety and substance use disorders are most effectively addressed with integrated treatment that targets both simultaneously to avoid relapse driven by the untreated condition.
4. Diathesis-stress models of psychopathology propose that mental disorders arise from:
Diathesis-stress models hold that a biological or psychological predisposition combines with environmental stress to produce disorder.
5. Which approach to violence risk assessment integrates structured clinical judgment with empirically derived risk factors to guide final conclusions?
SPJ tools like the HCR-20 provide empirically grounded risk factors but allow the evaluator to weight and integrate them clinically.
6. According to Robert Cialdini's principles of influence, which principle explains why limited-edition products are more desirable?
The scarcity principle states that people assign more value to opportunities or items when they are rare or becoming unavailable.
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