Kelly Flashcards
What is George Kelly’s famous theory?
Personal construct theory
Kelly was born in?
farm in Berth, Kansas, USA on April
28, 1905
what was kelly’s father occupation?
Presbyterian minister
His parents were fundamentalist in their religious beliefs?
George Kelly
he received his college
degree in physics and math from
Park College and MA in
Sociology from the University of
Kansas.
george kelly
who was kelly’s wife?
Gladys thompson
who developed clinical psychology program that considered to be the best in the country then?
George Kelly and Julian Rotter
There are various ways in which the world that surrounds us can be
understood; there always exist alternative perspectives for us to choose
from.
constructive alternativism
constructive alternativism was influenced by?
Hans Vaihinger’s philosophy of “as if”
People develop hypotheses about the consequence of their behavior, and
they evaluate the validity of those hypotheses in terms of the accuracy of
their predictions.
Man-the scientist
is like a good scientist, adjusting constructs according to
new data.
healthy person
is like a bad scientist, not changing his constructs
even if it does not work.
unhealthy person
When a person makes a statement about the world, we should understand
that the statement reveals more about the person than about the world.
focus on the construer
are best considered as proposals
or hypotheses, but many treat them as factual claims.
statements about people and the world
This is an unnecessary and redundant construct, because people are
active by definition since we are alive!
motivation
Two Types of Motivational Forces:
Push Theories: drive, motive, stimulus
Pull Theories: purpose, value, need
there is no integral agent
being oneself
serves as a mask behind which we hide the real self.
self
Kelly thought of one’s self-image as __________, not a predetermined
reality
fluid
This is a way in which some things are construed as being alike yet different from
others
personal constructs
what are the 9 personal constructs?
B R L P P C P C P
BIPOLAR
RANGE OF CONVENIENCE
LOCUS OF CONVENIENCE
PERMEABILITY
PREEMPTIVE
CONSTELLATORY
PROPOSITIONAL
CORE
PERIPHERAL
Constructs are dichotomous.
BIPOLAR
Certain constructs have certain range of
applications only
RANGE OF CONVENIENCE
the class of objects to which it is most relevant.
LOCUS OF CONVENIENCE
: the ease with which they can be extended to new
objects/events.
PERMEABILITY