Sponsor Area

Variations In Psychological Attributes

Question
CBSEENPS12041427

Differentiate between interpersonal and intra-personal intelligence.

Solution

Inter-personal Intelligence:

(i) Sensitive to understand others, behaviour.

(ii) It is understanding the motives, feelings and the behaviour of others.

(iii) Example: Psychologists, politicians, social workers.

Intra-personal Intelligence:

(i) Awareness of one's own feeling, motives and desires.

(ii) This refers to the knowledge of one's internal strengths and limitations.

(iii) Example: Philosophers, spiritual leaders.

Psychologists, counsellors and religious leaders have dominance of both inter-personal as well as intra-personal types of intelligence.