Which of the following statement is not correct regarding individual…

Concept: Individual differences are the measurable variations among learners in cognitive ability, psychomotor skill, personality, and behaviour. Educational psychology attributes these variations to heredity (including species/genetic characteristics), environment — which includes BOTH the physical surroundings (nutrition, climate, physical resources) and the social surroundings (family, culture, peer group, school), age/maturation, and sex, all acting together.

Application: Checking each option against this framework: differences appearing in both the cognitive and psychomotor domains matches the accepted view; species/hereditary characteristics shaping differences matches heredity as a recognised cause; age influencing differences matches maturation as a recognised cause. Restricting the cause of individual differences to only the social environment, while explicitly denying any role for the physical environment, does not match this framework — environment is understood to include both physical and social components together.

• Differences shown in both cognitive and psychomotor domains — consistent with the accepted view, so this is a correct statement.

• Species/hereditary characteristics influencing differences — consistent with heredity as a recognised cause, so this is a correct statement.

• Age affecting individual differences — consistent with maturation as a recognised cause, so this is a correct statement.

• Crediting only the social environment while ruling out the physical environment — this narrows a joint physical-and-social cause down to just one half, which does not match the accepted framework.

Cross-check: Standard teaching-aptitude references (e.g. NCERT/NIOS pedagogy material) list heredity, environment (both physical and social), maturation, and sex as the joint causes of individual differences; none of them narrows environment to its social component alone. The official HTET 2024 (Computer Science) answer key also keys this same option, independently confirming the conclusion.

Result: Because it excludes the physical environment despite environment being a joint physical-and-social cause, the statement that credits only the social environment is the one that is not correct regarding individual differences — making it the right choice for this item.