Category: Psychology MCQs

James McKeen Cattell becomes the first professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.

In which year William James published Principles of Psychology?

Sir Francis Galton creates correlation technique to better understand relationships between variable in intelligence studies.

Alfred Binet forms the first psychology lab devoted to psychodiagnosis in

He first wrote about internal vs. external locus of control. He was:

He developed a measure of authoritarianism, or Fascist orientation called the F-scale. The F-scale was used in many research projects during the ’60’s and the ’70’s

He authored an article entitled, ‘The Three Faces of Intellect’. It proposed that intellect was comprised of 144 specific abilities.

He first theorized the concepts of introversion – extroversion

She used items from the MMPI to assess ‘manifest anxiety’

He developed a measure of ‘ego strength’ from some items of the MMPI