Kelly - Psychology of Personal Constructs

Question 1

Kelly: ___ ___ refers to the notion that our present interpretations are subject to change.

Answer 1

Constructive Alternativism

Question 2

Describe Kelly’s basic postulate

Answer 2

All psychological processes are directed by the ways in which we anticipate events.

Question 3

T/F: Kelly agreed with Skinner’s position that behavior is shaped by the environment.

Answer 3

False – Kelly believed that people’s personal constructs hold the key to predicting their behavior.

Question 4

Kelly: The ___ corollary states that a person anticipates events based on similar previous events.

Answer 4

Construction

Question 5

Kelly: What does the individuality corollary state?

Answer 5

People differ from each other in their construction of events.

Question 6

Kelly: The ___ corollary states that people organize personal constructs in a hierarchical system.

Answer 6

Organization

Question 7

Kelly: What does the dichotomy corollary presume?

Answer 7

That people construe events in an either-or manner.

Question 8

Kelly: The range corollary assumes constructs are limited to situations within a ___.

Answer 8

Range of convenience. In other words, they’re not relevant to all situations.

Question 9

Kelly: What does choice corollary state?

Answer 9

People choose the option that expands their future choices.

Question 10

Kelly: In the ___ corollary, people continue to revise their constructs based on ___.

Answer 10

Experience, experience

Question 11

Kelly: This construct clarifies that some experiences don’t lead to revising constructs because they are too concrete.

Answer 11

Modulation corollary

Question 12

Kelly: Describe the fragmentation corollary.

Answer 12

People’s behavior is sometimes inconsistent because their construct system can admit incompatible elements.

Question 13

Kelly: The ___ corollary states that people with similar experiences often have similar personal constructs.

Answer 13

Commonality

Question 14

Kelly: The ___ corollary states that people are able to communicate with other people because they can construe other’s constructions.

Answer 14

Sociality

Question 15

Kelly: Describe fixed-role therapy

Answer 15

Calls for clients to act out predetermined roles continuously until their roles change as significant others begin reacting differently to them.

Question 16

Kelly’s Rep test is to discover ways in which people can understand… what?

Answer 16

The important people in their lives.

Question 17

Summarize Kelly’s Psychology of Personal Contructs

Answer 17

• 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.

Question 18

Kelly: Describe Constructive Alternativism

Answer 18

Refers to the notion that our present interpretations are subject to change.

Question 19

Kelly: Describe the construction corollary.

Answer 19

A person anticipates events based on similar previous events.

Question 20

Kelly: Describe the organization corollary

Answer 20

It states that people organize personal constructs in a hierarchical system.

Question 21

Kelly: Describe the experience corollary.

Answer 21

People continue to revise their constructs based on experience

Question 22

Kelly: Describe the modulation corollary

Answer 22

Some new experiences do not lead to a revision of personal constructs because they are too concrete or impermeable

Question 23

Kelly: Describe the commonality corollary.

Answer 23

It states that people with similar experiences often have similar personal constructs.

Question 24

Kelly: Describe the sociality corollary.

Answer 24

It states that people are able to communicate with other people because they can construe other’s constructions.

Question 25

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.

Answer 25

d. Clients should select the goal of the therapy.

Question 26

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.

Answer 26

b. offering clients “preposterous interpretations” to explain their behaviour.