Cognitive psychology authentication in multi-factor authentication systems

A cognitive psychology processing system comprises:

• at least one processor;
• a memory that stores operational instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the cognitive psychology processing system to:
• receive a request to access a first secure resource by a first user;
• select a set of cognitive psychology questions from a plurality of cognitive psychology questions for transmission to a first client device associated with the request for display on a display device of the first client device via a user interface displayed on the display device;
• receive a set of responses corresponding to the set of cognitive psychology questions, wherein the set of responses is generated by the first client device based on input to the user interface received via an input device of the first client device;
• generate cognitive psychology data based on the set of responses;
• retrieve a cognitive psychology profile associated with the first user from a database;
• calculate an authentication score based on comparing the cognitive psychology data to the cognitive psychology profile;
• transmit an authentication success notification when the authentication score compares favorably to an authentication threshold;
• and
• transmit an authentication failure notification when the authentication score compares unfavorably to the authentication threshold.