Who is a pioneering contributor to cognitive psychology?
Correct answer D. Jean Piaget
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Psychology MCQs
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Who developed modern psycholinguistic theory?
Correct answer C. Chomsky
Who brought psychology into university teaching and offered the first psychology course?
Correct answer D. William James
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Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers founded which approach?
Correct answer C. Humanistic approach
Hope, happiness, optimism and flow, taken together, are the focus of which approach?
Correct answer B. Positive psychology
E. O. Wilson strongly argued that which factor plays a vital role in shaping behaviour?
Correct answer B. Genes
Which branch of psychology examines the role of the brain, body chemicals, the central nervous system and neural mechanisms?
Correct answer D. Neuropsychology
Who proposed the well-known PASS theory in psychology?
Correct answer B. J. P. Das
Where was India’s first psychology laboratory set up?
Correct answer C. Calcutta University
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In which year did the first psychology department begin, within the philosophy department at Calcutta University?
Correct answer B. 1916
Who wrote the famous book Principles of Psychology?
Correct answer A. William James
From which subject has some of our most useful knowledge of human perception been borrowed?
Correct answer B. Physics
Under whose leadership was the first psychology department in India established?
Correct answer A. Prof. N. N. Sengupta
According to J. B. Watson, psychology is the science of what?
Correct answer C. Behaviour
The structuralists aimed to identify the building blocks of what?
Correct answer A. Consciousness
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Who discovered that not all mental processes are accompanied by mental imagery?
Correct answer C. Oswald Külpe
By whom were the functionalists strongly influenced?
Correct answer A. Charles Darwin
Who is credited with setting up the first psychology laboratory in the United States?
Correct answer D. William James
In Gestalt psychology, what does the term ‘flock’ mean?
Correct answer C. Perceptual unit
Who is regarded as the father of psychodynamic theory?
Correct answer B. Sigmund Freud