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Theories of Personality Chapter 11

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Kelly attempted to describe all aspects of personality, including its emotional components, strictly in terms of
cognitive processes
**In developing his theory Which of the following methods did Kelly rely on?
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According to Kelly, the only way to understand the human personality is to understand
how people interpret events and organize their social relationships in a system
According to Kelly, individuals use personal constructs to
predict and control the events in their lives
Which of the following statements is true about Kellvs life?
Scarcity of funds made Kelly change his specialization from physiological psychology to clinical psychology
Kelly's initial Clients were
students who were referred by their teachers for counseling
If Kelly had worked with schizophrenics in a mental institution during his formative professional years
his theory might not have depended so heavily on cognitive information-processing abilities
A person formulates hypotheses about the environment and tests them against
the reality of daily life
Which of the following statements best describes a construct?
It is an intellectual hypothesis to explain or interpret life events
Once formed, constructs tend to
guide our behavior
Which of the following is a reason for an individual to test his or her construct against reality?
To confirm his or her construct
Which of the following is a feature of constructs?
They can be revised
According to Kelly, the freedom to revise one's constructs is called
constructive alternativism
Personal constructs are oriented toward the
anticipation of future events
Kelly's theory is based on the idea that
themes from the past will reappear in the future
According to the individuality corollary_______
different people perceive the same event in different ways
According to Kelly's construction corollary
people can predict how they will experience a repeated event in the future
The main characteristic of the organization corollary is that
constructs can include one or more subordinate constructs
The only valid test for a construct system is its
predictive efficiency
The dichotomy corollary states that
an individual must also account -for dissimilarities among people or events
In a dichotomized construct the alternative that people select is determined by
how well it predicts the outcome of future events
According to the choice corollary, the high-risk high-reward adventurous option has a
lower predictive efficiency
In a dichotomized construct when people select the high-risk, high-reward alternative, they are
extending their construct system
Which of the following best explains why people persist in behaving in an unrewarding way?
Most people opt for the secure, low-risk alternative
According to Kelly's personal construct theory, which of the following is true of the choice corollary?
People frequently choose alternatives that enable them to anticipate future events with the highest degree of certainty
A construct's range of convenience is
its relevance to particular situations or people
The only way a construct system can remain rigid is if a person
encounters no new experiences
The idea that a new construct and an old one may be consistent in one situation and inconsistent in another situation is the
fragmentation corollary
If people construe an experience homogenously, then their cognitive processes will be
similar
The corollary says that people need to fit themselves in the constructs of the persons with whom they want to have positive relationships
Sociality
Kelly viewed human nature as
rational and capable of choice
All of the following are important aspects of Kelly's image of human nature except
pessimism
Kelly stated that a therapist should
respect what a client says even if he or she does not believe it
The Role Construct Repertory (REP) Test is used to
uncover the constructs people apply to the important people in their lives
Which Of the following is a goal Of the fixed role therapy promoted by George Kelly?
A client should discover that the new constructs work better in anticipating events than the old constructs by which the client was living
According to research on Kelly's theory which of the following is true of friendships among college students?
People befriend those whose constructs are already similar to theirs
In the context Of the real-world application Of Kelly's theory, the Role Construct Repertory (REP) Test
has been used in market research
People high in cognitive complexity
can easily Place a person in many categories
In the context of cognitive complexity and cognitive simplicity which of the following statements is true of couples?
Partners tend to construe their worlds in a similar manner
Currently Kelly's personal construct theory
enjoys a broad base of support in Europe and Canada
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