Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Psychology

Chapter

Self and Personality

Question:

Read the text carefully and answer the questions:

Meenakshi is ten years old. The psychologist assessed her intellect and her mental age was found to be twelve years. Based on the normal curve, she is considered to be on the extreme side of the curve.

IQ scores are distributed in the population in such a way that the scores of most people tend to fall in the middle range of the distribution. The frequency distribution for the IQ scores tends to approximate a bell shaped curve.

Meenakshi is also extraverted and enjoys being with people. She has the ability to understand the motives, feelings and behaviours of other people. She also believes strongly in non violence and her entire life is guided by this value. Her friends call her Gandhian due to these traits. Further, they believe that she has developed these traits because of the culture in which she grew up.

Meenakshi's life is guided by the values of non-violence and her friends call her 'Gandhian'. According to Allport's trait theory, this trait is an example of :

Options:

Surface traits

Secondary traits

Central traits

Cardinal traits

Correct Answer:

Cardinal traits

Explanation:
Cardinal traits are highly generalised dispositions. They indicate the goal around which a person’s entire life seems to revolve. Mahatma Gandhi’s non-violence and Hitler’s Nazism are examples of cardinal traits.