Kelly - Psychology of Personal Constructs Flashcards
Kelly: ___ ___ refers to the notion that our present interpretations are subject to change.
Constructive Alternativism
Describe Kelly’s basic postulate
All psychological processes are directed by the ways in which we anticipate events.
T/F: Kelly agreed with Skinner’s position that behavior is shaped by the environment.
False – Kelly believed that people’s personal constructs hold the key to predicting their behavior.
Kelly: The ___ corollary states that a person anticipates events based on similar previous events.
Construction
Kelly: What does the individuality corollary state?
People differ from each other in their construction of events.
Kelly: The ___ corollary states that people organize personal constructs in a hierarchical system.
Organization
Kelly: What does the dichotomy corollary presume?
That people construe events in an either-or manner.
Kelly: The range corollary assumes constructs are limited to situations within a ___.
Range of convenience. In other words, they’re not relevant to all situations.
Kelly: What does choice corollary state?
People choose the option that expands their future choices.
Kelly: In the ___ corollary, people continue to revise their constructs based on ___.
Experience, experience
Kelly: This construct clarifies that some experiences don’t lead to revising constructs because they are too concrete.
Modulation corollary
Kelly: Describe the fragmentation corollary.
People’s behavior is sometimes inconsistent because their construct system can admit incompatible elements.
Kelly: The ___ corollary states that people with similar experiences often have similar personal constructs.
Commonality
Kelly: The ___ corollary states that people are able to communicate with other people because they can construe other’s constructions.
Sociality
Kelly: Describe fixed-role therapy
Calls for clients to act out predetermined roles continuously until their roles change as significant others begin reacting differently to them.
Kelly’s Rep test is to discover ways in which people can understand… what?
The important people in their lives.
Summarize Kelly’s Psychology of Personal Contructs
- All psych. processes are directed by how we anticipate events. 11 corollaries elaborate.
- Behavior is shaped by their construction of that world, which is open to change via constructive alternativism).
- Fixed-role therapy calls for clients to act out predetermined roles until their peripheral and core roles change.
Kelly: Describe Constructive Alternativism
Refers to the notion that our present interpretations are subject to change.
Kelly: Describe the construction corollary.
A person anticipates events based on similar previous events.
Kelly: Describe the organization corollary
It states that people organize personal constructs in a hierarchical system.
Kelly: Describe the experience corollary.
People continue to revise their constructs based on experience
Kelly: Describe the modulation corollary
Some new experiences do not lead to a revision of personal constructs because they are too concrete or impermeable
Kelly: Describe the commonality corollary.
It states that people with similar experiences often have similar personal constructs.
Kelly: Describe the sociality corollary.
It states that people are able to communicate with other people because they can construe other’s constructions.
Which of the following statements is true about Kelly’s fixed-role therapy?
Select one:
a. Roles should be written in first person rather than third person.
b. Clients should be excluded from the process of determining roles.
c. Core roles should be introduced in the early stages of the therapy.
d. Clients should select the goal of the therapy.
d. Clients should select the goal of the therapy.
Before developing fixed-role therapy, Kelly used an unusual procedure for modifying constructs. This procedure involved
Select one:
a. encouraging clients to act out dreams.
b. offering clients “preposterous interpretations” to explain their behaviour.
c. using himself as the model to be imitated in therapy.
d. refusing to see clients for six months after the initial therapy session.
b. offering clients “preposterous interpretations” to explain their behaviour.
