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George Kelly
Theories of Personality: Personal Construct Theory
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| George Kelly's approach to personality is called | personal construct theory |
| In developing his theory, Kelly drew heavily on | Kelly's theory is not based on any of these theories |
| Kelly's personality theory is based on the importance of | our interpretation of our environment |
| For Kelly, the only way to understand people is to understand their | interpretations of events and their social relationships |
| Like scientists, all of us construct theories, which Kelly called | personal constructs |
| Kelly's early clinical work dealt with | students who were referred by their teachers for counseling |
| Far more than the other theorists, Kelly's approach emphasizes ____ functioning. | intellectual |
| According to Kelly, he was ____ committed to a particular therapeutic technique and a specific theory about the nature of personality. | not |
| If Kelly had worked with schizophrenics in a mental institution in his formative professional years, | his theory might not have depended so heavily on cognitive information-processing abilities |
| A construct is a | person's way to devise intellectual hypotheses to explain or interpret events |
| According to Kelly, a construct is | our way of explaining or interpreting the world |
| Once we have formed a construct, we | test it against reality |
| Constructs | need constant revision |
| According to Kelly, the freedom to revise constructs is called | constructive alternativism |
| Once formed, constructs tend to | guide our behavior |
| Personal constructs are oriented toward the | anticipation of future events |
| Kelly's theory is based on the idea that | themes from the past will appear in the future |
| According to the individuality corollary, | different people perceive the same event in different ways |
| The main characteristic of the organization corollary is that | some constructs are subordinate to others |
| The test of a construct system is how well it | predicts events |
| The dichotomy corollary says that | constructs are bipolar |
| To anticipate events correctly, constructs must be | dichotomous or bipolar. |
| In a dichotomized construct, the alternative we select is determined by | how well it predicts future events. |
| Choices that help define the construct system | have a high predictive efficiency. |
| Why does poor Jim continue to act in a hostile manner, even when rebuffed for it, instead of being friendly? Kelly would say Jim | all of the answers |
| A construct's range of convenience is the | range of events to which it can be applied. |
| The only way a construct system can remain rigid is if the person | encounters no new experiences. |
| The idea that two constructs may be consistent in one situation and inconsistent in another situation is the | fragmentation corollary. |
| If people construe an experience similarly, then their cognitive processes will be | similar. |
| The ____ corollary explains how we construe the constructions of others | sociality |
| All of the following are important aspects of Kelly's image of human nature except | pessimism. |
| Kelly's primary assessment technique is the | interview. |
| Kelly believed that a therapist should | accept what the client says at face value. |
| The self-characterization sketch is used to determine | how people perceive themselves in relation to others. |
| Kelly's main contribution to assessment is the | Role Construct Repertory (REP) Test. |
| The Role Construct Repertory (REP) Test is used to | uncover the pattern of constructs. |
| The REP Test is scored | subjectively. |
| Kelly promoted a form of psychotherapy called ____ therapy. | fixed role |
| Kelly's approach to psychotherapy | all of the answers |
| Research on Kelly's theory has shown that | constructs measured by the REP Test are stable over time. |
| The results of the REP Test | depend on the skill and training of the psychologist giving it. |
| Friendships among college students are likely to endure when their constructs are | similar. |
| REP test research shows that schizophrenics are unstable and inconsistent in construing | other people. |
| Persons high in cognitive complexity are also | able to predict the behavior of others better than persons low in cognitive complexity. |
| Adults high in cognitive complexity are likely to be | products of diverse influences in childhood. |
| Kelly’s theory has been criticized because his theory | focuses on intellectual and rational aspects of human functioning to the exclusion of emotional aspects. |
| Kelly's theory of personality is more popular in ____ than in the United States. | Europe, Canada, and Australia |
| Today, Kelly's theory of personality is | much broader and supported more elsewhere, than in the United States. |
| All of the following are criticisms of Kelly's theory except which? | The concept of the unconscious lacks empirical support. |
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