Psychology MCQs with Answers – Practice Online – Page 2

Question 21 Psychology

Which group defined psychology as the ‘science of mind’?

Correct answer C. Ancient Greek philosophers

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Question 22 Psychology

Clinical psychology deals with the practical side of which branch?

Correct answer A. Abnormal Psychology

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Question 23 Psychology

Sigmund Freud is regarded as the father of which school of psychology?

Correct answer D. Psychoanalytic school

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Question 24 Psychology

Ebbinghaus carried out pioneering experiments on what?

Correct answer B. Memory

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Question 25 Psychology

Psychology is the science that studies the behaviour of what?

Correct answer C. Living organisms

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Question 26 Psychology

From which science has some of the most useful knowledge about human perception been drawn?

Correct answer A. Physics

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Question 27 Psychology

What does general psychology deal with?

Correct answer D. Fundamentals of all branches of psychology

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Question 28 Psychology

What is abnormal psychology concerned with?

Correct answer D. Abnormal behaviour and its causes

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Question 29 Psychology

What does developmental psychology study?

Correct answer A. The various stages of human development

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Question 30 Psychology

What kind of psychology is industrial psychology?

Correct answer C. Applied psychology

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Question 31 Psychology

Who founded Individual Psychology?

Correct answer A. Alfred Adler

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Question 32 Psychology

A major part of developmental psychology is devoted to understanding the behaviour of whom?

Correct answer C. Children

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Question 33 Psychology

What does social psychology deal with?

Correct answer A. Behaviour and experience in social situations

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Question 34 Psychology

With which school of psychology was Wolfgang Köhler associated?

Correct answer A. Gestalt Psychology

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Question 35 Psychology

Who is known as the father of psychoanalysis?

Correct answer C. Sigmund Freud

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Question 36 Psychology

Which of these pioneering psychologists is associated with behaviourism?

Correct answer D. B.F. Skinner

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Question 37 Psychology

Who set up the first experimental psychology laboratory?

Correct answer A. Wilhelm Wundt

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Question 38 Psychology

The term ‘archetype’ is associated with which psychologist?

Correct answer D. Jung

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Question 39 Psychology

Who formulated the ‘law of effect’?

Correct answer D. Thorndike

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Question 40 Psychology

Who made a valuable contribution to the study of insight learning?

Correct answer D. Köhler

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