5 More Psychology Trivia Questions (Day 21)

Here are 5 more psychology trivia questions and another psychology joke we found online. Enjoy!

101. Hermann Rorschach, after whom the Rorschach test is named, was a psychoanalyst from which European country? Its other contributions to the world of psychology include Jean Piaget and Carl Jung.

102. Which pioneer of modern behaviorism is responsible for the theory of reinforcement, as well as the philosophy of radical behaviorism? He also invented the operant conditioning chamber, which was a box that was nicknamed after him.

103. Steven Pinker is a Canadian-American psychologist who is an advocate of a psychological approach connected to what theory, a concept more commonly associated with Charles Darwin?

104. Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt, one of the fathers of modern psychology, first used what “basic” term beginning with “I” to mean a tendency of an organism toward a particular behavior?

105. Which psychologist investigated obedience using electric shocks while a professor at Yale?

Answers:

101: Switzerland

102: Skinner

103: Evolution

104: Instinct

105: Stanley Milgram

Psychology Joke of the Day:

21. I have a lot of people who believe in me—which sort of scares me, because I always knew I was real.

– From the Watercoolertrivia.com article “119 Psychology Trivia Questions Ranked from Easiest to Hardest (Updated for 2024)” at www.watercoolertrivia.com/trivia-questions/psychology-trivia-questions and “13 One-Liners About Being Crazy from Psychology Today” at www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/crazy-for-life/201803/13-one-liners-about-being-crazy.