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Question 1

Kelly’s college education may have influenced his later writings, which are sprinkled with

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biblical references

Question 2

Kelly’s personal construct theory should be viewed as

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metatheory

Question 3

Kelly compared a person’s attempts to interpret and explain events to those of

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a scientist

Question 4

Kelly believed that his theory, like all others,

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is subject to change and revision

Question 5

Kelly explicitly assumed that

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all reality is subjective

Question 6

Facts, according to Kelly,

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carry meaning for us to discover

Question 7

Personal constructs are best defined as

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transparent templates or patterns that help people make sense out of the world

Question 8

Kelly’s assumption that present interpretations are subject to revision and change is called

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constructive alternativism

Question 9

All personal constructs, Kelly said, have at least

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one comparison and one contrast.

Question 10

Kelly’s fundamental postulate assumes that

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people guide their actions by the ways they predict the future.

Question 11

Kelly’s construction corollary assumes that people

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construe similar events in an identical fashion, and interpret future events according to their recurrent themes.

Question 12

The notion that people differ from one another in their construction of events best describes Kelly’s ____ corollary

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individuality

Question 13

Which of Kelly’s corollaries explicitly assumes an ordinal relationship among constructs?

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organization

Question 14

The assumption that personal constructs are limited to a finite number of events reflects which
corollary?

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organization

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Permeable constructs

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permit change

Question 16

Which of Kelly’s corollaries assumes that people can hold seemingly incompatible beliefs?

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fragmentation

Question 17

Kelly defined a role as

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a pattern of behavior resulting from our understanding of the
constructs of others.

Question 18

Kelly compared psychologically unhealthy people to

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incompetent scientists

Question 19

Kelly defined threat as

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the awareness of an immediate and basic change to the core structure.

Question 20

In order to facilitate clients? discovery of hidden aspects of themselves, Kelly used

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fixed-role therapy