George Kelly (TOP)

test 4

George Kelly

Personal Construct Theory

behaviorism

Kelly stated that ___________ viewed people as merely passive responders to stimuli in their environment

psychoanalysis

Kelly stated that ___________ viewed people as passive responders to their unconscious forces

motion

for Kelly, people are forms of __________ and we propel ourselves. No one or no thing does it to us

Personal Construct Theory

Kelly’s description of personality in terms of cognitive processes: We are capable of interpreting behaviors and events and of using this understanding to guide our behavior and to predict the behavior of other people.

personal construct

A \__________ \__________ is a unique way of looking at events in our lives to try to explain and predict future events.

construct

A \___________ is an intellectual hypothesis that we devise and use to interpret or explain life events.

bipolar

Constructs are __________, or dichotomous (dichotomy corollary), such as tall versus short or honest versus dishonest.

Modulation Corollary

experiences change constructs

dichotomy corollary

view the world in bipolar constructs

processes

Kellys fundamental postulate states that psychological \__________ are directed by the ways we anticipate events and construe our world

fundamental postulate

a person's processes are psychologically channelized by the ways in which we anticipates events

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Kellys theory includes \_____ corollaries

corrollary

a direct or natural consequence or result

optimistic

Kelly presented an \_________ image of human nature

True

True or False: Kelly believed humans are rational beings with free will

False; we are not bound

True or False: We are bound by constructs developed at one stage of life or by past experiences, unconscious conflicts, and biological instincts.

To define a set of constructs that enable us to predict events

According to Kelly what is our goal

Role Construct Repertory

Kelly assessed personality by accepting a person's words at face value, by having the person write a self- characterization sketch, and by the \__________ \___________ \___________ (REP) Test.

dichotomies important in a person's life, revealing the pattern of personal constructs.

What does the REP test uncover?

better

People high in cognitive complexity are \__________ (better/worse) able to predict the behavior of others

high

People \__________ (high/low) in cognitive complexity are more readily recognize differences between themselves and others

cognitive complexity

the ability to understand a given situation in multiple ways

complexity, simplicity

people high in cognitive \___________ (complexity/ simplicity) are more empathic, less anxious and unstable, deal better with inconsistent information in construing others, and experience greater complexity in childhood than people high in cognitive \______________ (complexity/ simplicity).

cognitive simplicity

a cognitive style or way of construing the environment characterized by a relative inability to perceive differences among people

attributional

Those high in \___________ complexity view the behavior of other people as being more complex and multifaceted