George Kelly Flashcards

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Personal Construct Theory

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Generating set of personal constructs in your mind and you impose your own unique perspective or reality on the world around you

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Predictive Efficacy

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How well a construct anticipates events

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Seven Corollaries

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  1. Dichotomy
  2. Construction
  3. Choice
  4. Range
  5. Modulation
  6. Organization
  7. Individuality
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Assessment of Personal Constructs

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Difficult to label or communicate

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Personality Change

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Personal Constructs and Psychological Distress
CPC and Creativity Cycles
Fixed Role Therapy

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Personal Constructs and Psychological Distress

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When constructs you have aren’t working, thats when you get abnormal functioning

  • May not have previous experience or poor predictive constructs
  • Anxiety when constructs don’t work
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CPC and Creative Cycles

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"If then" situations
3 Phases: 
1. Circumspection Phase
2. Preemption Phase
3. Control Phase
Creativity is when you loosen constructs for new alternative: "what if"
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Fixed Role Therapy

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Asked to play a new role in life

Make small changes

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