Chapter 19 MC

Question 1

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

a. agricultural references.
b. show business references.
c. biblical references.
d. musical references.
e. classical mythology.

Answer 1

c

Question 2

Kelly’s personal construct theory should be viewed as

a. a metatheory.
b. a psychoanalytic theory.
c. an existential theory.
d. a behavioral theory.
e. a factor analytic theory.

Answer 2

a

Question 3

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

a. a scientist.
b. a psychotherapist.
c. an animal.
d. an engineer.

Answer 3

a

Question 4

Kelly believed that his theory, like all others,

a. is a metatheory.
b. should explain unconscious motivation.
c. is subject to change and revision.
d. should be limited to "normal" behavior.
e. should be based on nomothetic research methods.

Answer 4

c

Question 5

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

a. scientific determinism.
b. constructive alternativism.
c. theoretical empiricism.
d. alternative constructivism.
e. empirical constructivism.

Answer 5

b

Question 6

Kelly explicitly assumed that

a. the universe exists.
b. all reality is subjective.
c. the universe is beyond human understanding.
d. all people are motivated to rise above their peers.

Answer 6

a

Question 7

Facts, according to Kelly,

a. are immutable.
b. determine our perceptions.
c. carry meaning for us to discover.
d. are discovered by scientists and disseminated to nonscientists.
e. are discovered by scientists and then disseminated to other scientists.

Answer 7

c

Question 8

Personal constructs are best defined as

a. subjective opinions held without substantiating evidence.
b. events that are shaped by personal biases.
c. alternative ways of looking at the world.
d. transparent templates or patterns that help people make sense out of the world.

Answer 8

d

Question 9

All personal constructs, Kelly said, have at least

a. one comparison and one contrast.
b. two comparisons and one contrast.
c. one comparison and two contrasts.
d. two comparisons and two contrasts.

Answer 9

a

Question 10

Kelly’s fundamental postulate assumes that

a. present behavior is guided by past experiences.
b. people guide their actions by the ways they predict the future.
c. all behavior, without exception, is completely determined by and pertinent to one's phenomenal field.
d. personal constructs are convenient for an infinite range of events.

Answer 10

b

Question 11

Kelly’s construction corollary assumes that people

a. construe similar events in an identical fashion.
b. construe similar events in very different ways.
c. interpret past events by their recurrent themes.
d. may do any of these depending on the situation.

Answer 11

a

Question 12

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

a. choice
b. experience
c. organization
d. individuality
e. dichotomy

Answer 12

d

Question 13

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

a. organization
b. dichotomy
c. fragmentation
d. construction
e. individuality

Answer 13

a

Question 14

The assumption that personal constructs are limited to a finite number of events reflects this corollary.

a. choice
b. commonality
c. fragmentation
d. range
e. organization

Answer 14

d

Question 15

Permeable constructs

a. hold no information.
b. permit change.
c. restrict adaptation.
d. cannot be anticipated.

Answer 15

b

Question 16

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

a. choice
b. organization
c. fragmentation
d. dichotomy
e. individuality

Answer 16

c

Question 17

Kelly defined a role as

a. a facade we erect to prevent others from seeing who we really are.
b. a pattern of behavior resulting from our understanding of the constructs of others.
c. the extent to which we accurately construe the constructions of others.
d. an invalid personal construct in need of the validation of another.

Answer 17

b

Question 18

Kelly compared psychologically unhealthy people to

a. incompetent scientists.
b. bankrupt businesses.
c. a dry riverbed.
d. physically unhealthy people.
e. used Christmas trees.

Answer 18

a

Question 19

Kelly defined threat as

a. any incidental modification of a personal construct.
b. the awareness of an immediate and basic change to the core structure.
c. any action or behavior inconsistent with one's core role experience.
d. failure to develop a core role

Answer 19

b

Question 20

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

a. hypnosis.
b. dream interpretation.
c. fixed-role therapy.
d. early recollections.

Answer 20

c