Kelly Flashcards
Kelly’s college education may have influenced his later writings, which are sprinkled with
biblical references.
Kelly’s personal construct theory should be viewed as
a metatheory
Kelly compared a person’s attempts to interpret and explain events to those of
a psychotherapist.
Kelly believed that his theory, like all others,
is subject to change and revision.
Kelly’s assumption that present interpretations are subject to revision and change is called
constructive alternativism.
Kelly explicitly assumed that
the universe exists.
Facts, according to Kelly,
carry meaning for us to discover.
Personal constructs are best defined as
transparent templates or patterns that help people make sense out of the world.
All personal constructs, Kelly said, have at least
one comparison and one contrast
Kelly’s fundamental postulate assumes that
people guide their actions by the ways they predict the future.
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 future events according to their recurrent themes
D) both a and c.
D) both a and c.
The notion that people differ from one another in their construction of events best describes Kelly’s __________ corollary.
individuality
The assumption that personal constructs are limited to a finite number of events reflects which corollary?
range
Which of Kelly’s corollaries explicitly assumes an ordinal relationship among constructs?
organization
Permeable constructs
permit change.
