Theories of Personality 9th Edition

567 Kelly: Psychology of Personal Constructs ⬥ Overview of Personal Construct Theory ⬥ Biography of George Kelly ⬥ Kelly’s Philo ...

568 Part VI Learning-Cognitive Theories A rlene, a 21-year-old college student majoring in engineering, was balancing a heavy ac ...

Chapter 19 Kelly: Psychology of Personal Constructs 569 Biography of George Kelly Of all the personality theorists discussed in ...

570 Part VI Learning-Cognitive Theories that he should “pursue something more humanitarian than physiological psychol- ogy” (Kel ...

Chapter 19 Kelly: Psychology of Personal Constructs 571 rejected extreme phenomenology (see Combs & Snygg, 1959), which hold ...

572 Part VI Learning-Cognitive Theories In other words, people always have alternative ways of looking at things. Kelly (1963) a ...

Chapter 19 Kelly: Psychology of Personal Constructs 573 their weight continues to drop to a life-threatening level. Some people ...

574 Part VI Learning-Cognitive Theories [that person] anticipates events” (Kelly, 1955, p. 46). In other words, people’s behavio ...

Chapter 19 Kelly: Psychology of Personal Constructs 575 Differences Among People Kelly’s second corollary is equally obvious. “P ...

576 Part VI Learning-Cognitive Theories Arlene considered only four: riding a public bus, walking, relying on friends, or drivin ...

Chapter 19 Kelly: Psychology of Personal Constructs 577 Choice Between Dichotomies If people construe events in dichotomized fas ...

578 Part VI Learning-Cognitive Theories The range corollary allowed Kelly to distinguish between a concept and a construct. A co ...

Chapter 19 Kelly: Psychology of Personal Constructs 579 Arlene’s personal construct of independence versus dependence was suffi- ...

580 Part VI Learning-Cognitive Theories people with widely different experiences may construe events in very similar ways. For e ...

Chapter 19 Kelly: Psychology of Personal Constructs 581 Arlene’s roles as student, employee, and daughter would be considered pe ...

582 Part VI Learning-Cognitive Theories On the other hand, a construction system that is too loose or flexible leads to disorgan ...

Chapter 19 Kelly: Psychology of Personal Constructs 583 two incompatible subsystems. However, when evidence of the untrustworthi ...

584 Part VI Learning-Cognitive Theories construe and react to this new role? Will their reactions help the client reconstrue eve ...

Chapter 19 Kelly: Psychology of Personal Constructs 585 and many variations of the original test have evolved. One example is se ...

586 Part VI Learning-Cognitive Theories The second major step is optional, and is shown in the lower grid portion of Figure 19.2 ...