MODULE 12: GEORGE KELLY

personal constructs

your way of looking at, explaining, and interpreting events in your world.

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people as scientists

Kelly (1955) suggested that each one of us behaves as a scientist in our efforts to understand

the world.

Constructive Alternativism (Kelly)

the idea that we are free to revise or replace our constructs with alternatives as needed

Personal Construct

one's way of seeing how things (or people) are alike and yet different from other things (or people).

mental filters or framework that we use to make sense of the world. They help as compare, categories, and interpret people experiences, ot situations which influence how we act

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Basic Postulate

"A person's processes are psychologically channelized by the ways in which (that person) anticipates events."

People's behaviors (thoughts and actions) are directed by the way they see the future

construction

a person anticipates events by construing their replications.

We predict future by using patterns from past experiences

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individuality

persons differ from each other in their construction of events.

We see and interpret things differently because of our unique experiences

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organization

people characteristically evolve, for (their) convenience in anticipating events, a construction system embracing ordinal relationships between constructs

We organized our ideas or personal construct into a system in a way that helps us predict future events

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dichotomy

a person's construction system is composed of a finite number of dichotomous constructs.

good vs. bad, friendly or unfriendly, hard working or lazy. laging dalawa lang

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choice

people choose for themselves that alternative in a dichotomized construct through which they anticipate the greater possibility for extension and definition of future constructs.

we choose between options that helps us to grow or learn more

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range

a construct is convenient for the anticipation of a finite range of events only.

construct that only works in 1 setting

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experience

a person's construction system varies as he (or she) successively construes the replications of events.

Modify construct to accommodate our new observations based on the experience we accumulate

Modulation

the variation in a person's construction system is limited by the permeability of the constructs within whose range of convenience the variants lie.

Construct can be change but has limit

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Fragmentation

a person may successively employ a variety of constructive subsystems which are inferentially incompatible with each other.

Person may have a different set of constructs that necessarily fit together logically or consistently. Different subsystems.

Commonality

to the extent that one person employs a construction of experience which is similar to that employed by another, [that person's] processes are psychologically similar to those of the other person.

Shared construct help people understand each other and exhibit similar responses to events

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Sociality Corollary (Kelly)

to the extent that people accurately construe the belief system of others, they may play a role in a social process involving those other people.

Understanding the personal ideas of other people