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GATE 2024 XH5 (Psychology) – Question 44

Personality · Theories of Personality: Psychoanalytic, behaviourist, social, cognitive, humanism, trait and type theories · 1 mark · Multiple choice

Which theory emphasizes individual’s subjective frame of reference?

  1. Behaviouristic
  2. Dispositional
  3. Phenomenological
  4. Psychoanalytic

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Correct answer: (C) Phenomenological

Explanation

The phenomenological approach (Rogers) stresses the person's own subjective view of the world.