Match the concepts in List I with their characteristics in List II
| List I (Concept) | List II (Description) | ||
| A. | Environment | I. | Refers to literally everything that surrounds us including the physical, social, cultural or work environment. |
| B. | Ecology | II. | Deals with psychological issues pertaining to human-environment interaction. |
| C. | Environmental Psychology | III. | Refers to the creativity of the human mind, as expressed in the work of architects and town planners. |
| D. | Environmental Design | IV. | Refers to the study of relationship between living beings and their environment. |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → A-I, B-IV, C-II, D-III
(A) Environment — this matches (I) Refers to literally everything that surrounds us including the physical, social, cultural or work environment. The word ‘environment’ refers to all that is around us, all the forces outside human beings to which they respond in some way.
(B) Ecology — this matches (IV) Refers to the study of relationship between living beings and their environment. Ecology studies the relationships between living beings and their environment.
(C) Environmental Psychology — this matches (II) Deals with psychological issues pertaining to human-environment interaction. It is the branch of psychology that deals with psychological issues of the human-environment interaction in a very broad sense.
(D) Environmental Design — this matches (III) Refers to the creativity of the human mind, as expressed in the work of architects and town planners. The built environment involves environmental design, and one psychological feature of ‘design’ is the creativity of the human mind seen in the work of architects, town planners and civil engineers.
Note: The meanings of environment, ecology, environmental psychology and environmental design were there in the chapter ‘Psychology and Life’ of the pre-rationalised NCERT, which NTA followed in 2022, and are not there in the NCERT book (2025-26).
NCERT (Pre-rationalised): “Human-Environment Relationship … A branch of psychology called environmental psychology deals with various psychological issues pertaining to the human-environment interaction in a very broad sense of the term. The word ‘environment’ refers to all that is around us, literally everything that surrounds us, including the physical, social, work, and cultural environment. In general, it includes all the forces outside human beings to which they respond in some way. In the present section, the discussion will centre around the physical environment. ‘Ecology’ is the study of the relationships between living beings and their environment.…” “Human-Environment Relationship … The built environment usually involves the concept of environmental design. The idea of ‘design’ contains some psychological features, such as :
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