Match List-I with List-II
| List-I | List-II | ||
| (A) | Interactional approach | (I) | Understands personality in relation to the features of ecological and cultural environment |
| (B) | Type approach | (II) | Focuses on identifying primary characteristics of the people |
| (C) | Trait approach | (III) | Situational characteristics play an important role in determining our behaviour |
| (D) | Cultural approach | (IV) | Examines certain broad patterns in the observed behavioural characteristics of the individuals |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)
(A) Interactional approach — this matches (III) Situational characteristics play an important role in determining our behaviour. People may behave as dependent or independent because of rewards or threats in a situation, not because of a trait.
(B) Type approach — this matches (IV) Examines certain broad patterns in the observed behavioural characteristics of the individuals. Each broad pattern is one type, and people are placed in it by the similarity of their behaviour to that pattern.
(C) Trait approach — this matches (II) Focuses on identifying primary characteristics of the people. It looks at the specific psychological attributes on which individuals differ in consistent and stable ways.
(D) Cultural approach — this matches (I) Understands personality in relation to the features of ecological and cultural environment. A group’s economic maintenance system, climate, terrain and food shape its cultural and behavioural variations.
NCERT (2025-26): “Major Approaches to the Study of Personality … Psychologists distinguish between type and trait approaches to personality. The type approaches attempts to comprehend human personality by examining certain broad patterns in the observed behavioural characteristics of individuals. Each behavioural pattern refers to one type in which individuals are placed in terms of the similarity of their behavioural characteristics with that pattern. In contrast, the trait approach focuses on the specific psychological attributes along which individuals tend to differ in consistent and stable ways.…” “…The interactional approach holds that situational characteristics play an important role in determining our behaviour.…” “Trait Approaches … Thus, trait approach attempts to identify primary characteristics of people.…” “Cultural Approach … This approach attempts to understand personality in relation to the features of ecological and cultural environment.…” |