Chapter 19 TF Flashcards
George Kelly’s theory is a theory about theories.
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Kelly’s theory allows for change even in its own basic assumptions.
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Kelly insisted that behavior is shaped by a person’s environment.
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Kelly realized that his theory was a set of half-truths.
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Kelly accepted the phenomenological position that our perceptions are our only reality.
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Like Adler, Kelly thought that our interpretation of events is more important than the events themselves.
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Kelly assumed that the universe really existed.
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It is virtually impossible for incompatible constructs to exist within a person.
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Personal construct theory attempts to explain nature.
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A person’s construction system exists only in the present.
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Kelly believed that psychological disorders were a result of childhood experiences.
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People who have never developed a core role do not feel guilty.
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The personal construction systems of people who have psychological disorders is much narrower than the construction systems of psychologically healthy individuals.
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Kelly believed that people belong to the same cultural group mostly because they construe their experience in the same manner.
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The purpose of fixed-role therapy is to help clients change their outlook on life by having them act out a predetermined role.
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