Chapter 5

Question 1

criteria that each person uses to create their own views of the world. We act according to these perceptions. Tend to be fairly bi-polar.

Answer 1

Personal constructs

Question 2

The main bi-polar dimensions on which we assess people

Answer 2

Super-ordinate construct

Question 3

The degree to which someone falls on the super-ordinate scale of a construct

Answer 3

Sub-ordinate construct

Question 4

We are all capable of altering our present interpretation of events or adapt new ones. We can change our concepts and how we interpret them. We have free will. Thoughts and behaviors can be determined by goals. Future oriented in the way we try to anticipate events.

Answer 4

Constructive alternativism

Question 5

out psychological processes are determined by how we anticipate events.

Answer 5

Fundamental postulate

Question 6

describe how interpretive processes operate and how we create personal constructs

Answer 6

corollaries

Question 7

11 Corollaries

Answer 7

1) construction - how to act / use past experiences to construct what we anticipate
2) dichotomy
3) organizational - some constructs more imp than others
4) range of convenience - constructs placed in wide range of situations
5) modulation - constructs can be changed to accommodate life
6) choice - expand experiences/constructs or remain the same
7) individuality - everyone’s experiences are different and we all have different constructs
8) communality - tend to grow similar and shared constructs with people we are close with
9) fragmentation - conflicting constructs
10) sociality - interact with others through an understanding of their constructs
11) experience - as things don’t go as we expect, we can change our constructs.

Question 8

when we indulge ourselves in short term goals and sacrifice our long term goals (irrational)

Answer 8

Hedonism

Question 9

putting ourselves first and assuring our actions satisfy our own life goals first

Answer 9

Enlightened self-interest

Question 10

distinguishing between bad behaviour and bad people. This is the idea between judging behavior (something they did) and the individual themselves (judging the person)

Answer 10

Ethical Humanism

Question 11

focus on doing as well as we can, not at being the best. Irrational to think we can be the best at everything we do.

Answer 11

Fallibility

Question 12

The basic model of Rational-Emotional Therapy

Answer 12

ABCDE
A- acting event
B - beliefs about event
C - emotional consequences 
D - therapist disputes belief 
E - replacint those beliefs by another 

most assume A causes C.
Goal: introduce B.