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Kelly
exam 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Kelly’s early life history and how it shaped his theory of personality | Good childhood, religious family + helped less fortunate. |
| Personal Construct Theory | Based off conscious thoughts - no unconscious thoughts |
| Construct | mental categories used to interpret events. Frame Work for understanding. Intellectual Hypothesis/interpret + explain world |
| What does it meant to say constructs are bipolar? | Every construct has an opposite. EX tall vs short. With out both, there would be no meaning because everyone would be the same despite there differences. |
| Constructive alternativism | Constructs and personality adapts and changes overtime. As personality developes, constructs develop. |
| over what timeframe is personality shaped? | Personality is shaped over life span, there for constructs develope over life span. |
| Corollarie 1 - Construction | - past experiences help predict future events. ID similarities use to predict how we deal with similar situations in future |
| Corollarie 2 - Individuality | Individual Differences, people perceive events differently |
| Corollarie 3 - Organization | - constructs are arranged in hierarchies Group related constructs. EX - tall + plays basketball + healthy. May revise groupings as new people are met. |
| Corollarie 4 - Dichotomy | Each construct has an opposite, to understand what constructs mean. If there are no opposites, then construct applies to everyone. |
| Corollarie 5 - Choice | - choose the option that best predicts outcomes Freedom of choice to add, remove, & revise constructs. There are 2 alternatives for each construct. |
| Alternatives | There are 2 alternatives for each construct. EX security & adventure. Getting stuck on one alt. can cause maladaptiveness. Most commonly > security There are multiple ways to interpret any event. Healthy individuals are flexible and able to modify or r |
| Corollarie 6 - Range | Constructs have "range of convenience". When do constructs apply, most are not universal. Flavorful vs bland -> range is food & drinks |
| Corollarie 7 - Experience | - constructs change through new experiences New experiences though life allow us to refine and renew constructs. Which allows for better predictability. |
| Corollarie 8 - Modulation | Constructs permeability - how much a construct can change. More permeable = more likely to change |
| Corollarie 9 - XXX | |
| Human Nature | Optimistic, Free will (no determinism), and Control our selves + consciously choose constructs. |
| Interview Assessment | Take clients reports at face value |
| Role Construct Repertory (REP) | ID Constructs: identifies personal constructs. EX. mother/closest to your mother, then client writes who that person is for them. |
| Fixed Role Therapy | - Kelly wrote sketch for client to act out, clients act out teh narrativr and adapt ot better ways of living. Helps idenitfy construct aptterns, but has wiggle room. After identifying a client’s constructs, client experiments with new ways of thinking/be |
| Cognitive Approach to Personality | - Personality is shaped by conscious cognitive processes—how we interpret and make sense of the world. • People function like scientists, forming and testing hypotheses about their environment. |
| Fundamental Postulate | “Our psychological processes are directed by how we anticipate events.” • We use constructs to predict the future and guide behavior. |
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