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IGNOU MPC-03 (July 2025 – January 2026) Assignment Questions
SECTION – A
Answer the following questions in 1000 words each.
1. Describe Ink Blot tests and highlight their reliability and validity.
2. Explain the key features of Allport’s dispositional theory of personality.
3. Discuss the main tenets of Bandura’s social cognitive theory of personality.
SECTION – B
Answer the following questions in 400 words each.
4. Explain the five-factor model of personality.
5. Give a general overview of Case Study method.
6. Explain faking and measures to avoid faking in self-report tests.
7. Describe Karen Horney’s theory of personality.
8. Critically evaluate Maslow’s need hierarchy theory.
SECTION – C
Answer the following questions in 50 words each.
9. Children’s Apperception Test
10. Advantages and limitations of behavioural assessment
11. Ayurvedic body types
12. PEN Model
13. Anal and phallic stage
14. Purpose of personality assessment
15. The real and the ideal self
16. Nature and nurture debate
17. Classification of Projective techniques
18. Ability, temperament and dynamic traits
IGNOU MPC-03 (July 2024 – January 2025) Assignment Questions
SECTION – A
Answer the following questions in 1000 words each.
1. Elucidate the key concepts of Gordon Allport’s dispositional theory of personality.
2. Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of self-report inventories. Suggest measures to overcome weaknesses in self-report inventories.
3. Define behavioural assessment. Discuss the common characteristics and assumptions of behavioural assessment methods.
SECTION – B
Answer the following questions in 400 words each.
4. Explain the Big-Five Model of personality. Discuss the advantages of the Big-Five structure.
5. Describe situational tests and their limitations.
6. Elucidate Albert Bandura’s social cognitive theory of personality.
7. Explain ink blot test. Discuss in detail Rorschach psychodiagnostics test.
8. Discuss the categories of traits as given by Raymond B. Cattell.
SECTION – C
Answer the following questions in 50 words each.
9. Ayurvedic body types
10. The Sixteen Personality Factors Questionnaire
11. Senior Apperception Test
12. Growth needs
13. Homeostasis
14. Social deprivation as an environmental determinant for personality development
15. Extraversion/ Introversion
16. Limitations of Interview Method
17. Self as given by Rogers
18. Nomothetic approach to personality