GATE 2021 XH5 – Question 52

Personality · Theories of Personality: Psychoanalytic, behaviourist, social, cognitive, humanism, trait and type theories · 2 marks · Multiple select

Which are basic assumptions in Allport’s view of human nature?

Growth is an active process of becoming.
A trait must be related to the total personality; conceptual schemes help, but isolated traits cannot fully explain the person.
Personality is organised in a topographical model.
All human events are determined by powerful instinctual forces.

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Correct answer: (A) Growth is an active process of becoming.; (B) A trait must be related to the total personality; conceptual schemes help, but isolated traits cannot fully explain the person.

Explanation

Allport treats the person as an organised, developing whole, giving A and B. Traits matter within the total personality rather than as disconnected elements. The topographical model and strong instinctual determinism in C,D belong to psychoanalytic accounts rather than Allport’s central assumptions.

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