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PSY 233:Chap13 Kelly
Kelly
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Kelly found that any approach to solving a client's problem worked if it: A. Caused the client to look at himself differently B. was logical C. Was correct D. All of the above | A. Caused the client to look at himself or herself differently |
| The statement, "A person anticipates events by construing their replications, "describes the____ corollary: A. Choice B. Construction C. Organizaiton D. Experience | B.Construction |
| ____Involves trying new constructs while construing a situation: A. Definition B. Extension C. Modulating D. Subermergence | B. Extension |
| For Kelly, a creative person is one who: A. has a loose construct system B. Has a tight construct system C. Can loosen and tighten his or her construct system D. Opts for definition rather than extension of his or her construct system | C. Can loosen and tighten his or her construct system |
| Kelly caleld theories that employ terms such as purpose, value, or need___ theories: A. Push B. Pull C. Pitchfork D. Jackass | B. Pull |
| For Kelly, "awareness of imminent comprehensive change in one's core structures," defined A. Guilt B. Fear C. Threat D. Aggression | C. Threat |
| For Kelly, What others called the unconscious was explained in terms of: A. Preverbal constructs B. Submergence C. Suspension D. All of the above | D. All of the above |
| Kelly's theory has been criticized for: A. rejecting learning, motivation, and developmental aspects of personality B. its inability to predict behavior C. Generating limited empirical research D. All of the above | D. All of the above |
| The ___ corollary is a restatement of Kelly's notion of constructive alternativism: A. Construction B. Individuality C. Choice D. Experience | B. Individuality |
| In choosing between definition or extension of one's construct system Kelly was in favor of: A. Definition B. extension C. A middle ground between the two D.Neither definition nor extension | C. A middle ground between the two |
| Phenomenology | For Kelly, it is the focus on conscious experience related to objective reality |
| Existential | It emphasizes choices about the present and future |
| Constructive alternativism | The assumption that any one event is open to a variety of different interpretations it is considered a philosophical position. There is no reality outside of our interpretation of it |
| Anxiety | The recognition that events with which we are confronted lie outside the range of one's construct system |
| Guilt | perception of one's apparent dislodgment from his core role structure |
| Aggression | the active elaboration of one's perceptual field. This is not hostility. Kelly's aggression is assertiveness to the rest of the world |
| Role Construct repertory test (REP Test) | It permits a person to reveal personal constructs by comparing and contrasting a number of significant persons |
| Cognitive complexity | The ability to perceive differences in the way in which one construes other people |
| Fixed-Role Therapy | The client would assume a role different than one's original way of behaving and would act the new role out for a week or longer to expand his or her horizons |
| The personal construct system gives consistency and order to a person's constructs | |
| Social Corollary | States that to the extent that people can construe each other's construction processes, they can interact with each other. In such interactions they fulfill social roles |
| The Role Construct Repertory Test | Which measures of a person's own idiosyncratic way of sorting out the people and events he or she encounters, has been used in research in clinical, social, and personality psych |
| Give three ways in which Kelly can be classified/considered according to his theories: | Phenomenologist, existentialist, humanist, cognitive theorist |
| The idea that one is not boundary his or her biography; rather, he or she can build their reality any way they want: | Constructive alternativism |
| Idea that we act in a manner congruent with how we expect the world to be, based on our interpretations of past events (if we see people as friendly and helpful we are much more likely to engage others and seek advice) | Fundamental postulate |
| (1)Give an example of a push/pitchfork theorist, (2) an ex. of a pull/carrot theorist, and (3) Kelly's interoperation of such | 1. Freud, Skinner, Dollard, Miller 2. Jung, Adler, 3. Kelly=Jackass theorist (motivation is interent) |
| Kelly's model of the human being stresses the idea that all humans act as ___ reducing uncertainty by making and testing predictions | Scientists |
| This Corollary is based on a hierarchy of superordinate and subordinate personal constructs | Organization |