Important Questions for IGNOU MSCCFT MCFT006 Exam with Main Points for Answer - Unit 2

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Unit 2. Personality and Adjustment

1. Delineate the basic perspectives in the study of personality.

• Psychoanalytic, 
• neo-anlytical, 
• biological, 
• behaviourist, 
• cognitive, 
• trait, 
• humanistic and existentialism and 
• social interactionist perspectives.

2. Define trait.

Trait has been defined by Allport as a generalized neuropsychic structure or core tendency that underlies behaviour across time and situations.

3. What is the criteria to establish any value as superior value?

Hartmann gave the criteria to find a superior value. According to him, value to be superior should have characteristics like:

• inclusiveness,
• permanence, 
• irrevocability, 
• congruency, 
• cognitive completeness and
• survival.

4. Discuss the existentialism perspective of personality in the light of tsunami and its after effects.

5. Describe the factors which would promote well-being of individuals.

6. What are the characteristics of adjustment?

7. Describe the role of culture and its influence on personality development.

8. Is Freud’s theory effective in today’s modern lifestyle with sexual expression being open and out? Discuss psychoanalytic perspective in detail.