UNIT VII. COGNITIVE APPROACH

Question 1

believed that all people including those who build personality theories anticipate events in terms of meanings or interpretations that are called “constructs”.

Answer 1

GOERGE ALEXANDER KELLY

Question 2

A person’s processes are psychologically channelized by the ways in which he anticipates events

Answer 2

Fundamental postulate

Question 3

A person anticipates events by construing their replicaitons.

Answer 3

Construction corollary

Question 4

Persons differ from each other in their construction of events.

Answer 4

Individuality corollary

Question 5

Each person characteristically evolves, for his convenience in anticipating events, a construction system embracing ordinal relationships between constructs.

Answer 5

Organization corollary

Question 6

A person’s construction system is composed of a finite number of dichotomous constructs

Answer 6

Dichotomy corollary.

Question 7

A person chooses for himself that alternative in a dichotomous construct through the greater possibility for extension and definition of his system

Answer 7

Choice corollary

Question 8

A construct is convenient for the anticipation of a finite range of events only.

Answer 8

Range corollary

Question 9

A person’s construction system varies as he successively construes the replication of events

Answer 9

Experience corollary

Question 10

The variation in a person’s construction system is limited by the permeability of the constructs within whose range of convenience the variants lay.

Answer 10

Modulation corollary

Question 11

A person may successively employ a variety of construction subsystems which are inferentially incompatible with each other.

Answer 11

Fragmentation corollary

Question 12

To the extent that one person employs a construction of experience which is similar to that employed by another, his psychological processes are similar to those of the other person.

Answer 12

Commonality corollary.

Question 13

To the extent that one person construes the construction processes of another, he may play a role in a social process involving the other person.

Answer 13

Sociality corollary

Question 14

can be expressed in words

Answer 14

Verbal construct

Question 15

one that is used even though the person has no words to express it. It is learned before the person develops the use of language.

Answer 15

Preverbal construct

Question 16

they are basic to a person’s functioning and can be changed onlly with great consequences for the rest of the construct system.

Answer 16

Core construct

Question 17

they are much less basic and be altered without serious modification of the core structure.

Answer 17

Peripheral construct

Question 18

the broadest, most inclusive construct. These constructs include more narrow and specific construct

Answer 18

Superordinate constructs

Question 19

the middle-level constructs includes a large number even more narrow construct. Construct vary on inclusiveness

Answer 19

Subordinate construct

Question 20

4 Responses to construct inconsistency

Answer 20

1. Anxiety
2. Fear
3. Threat
4. Guilt
5. Aggression
6. Hostility