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16 Cards in this Set
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Anxiety
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an emotion expressing a sense of impending threat or danger. In Kelly's personal construct theory, anxiety occurs when the person recognizes that his or her construct system does not apply to the events being perceived.
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Cognitive complexity/simplicity
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An aspect of a person's cognitive functioning that is defined at one end by the use of many constructs with many relationships to one another (complexity) and at the other end by the use of few constructs with limited relationships to one another (simplicity).
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Construct
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In Kelly's theory, a way of perceiving, construing, or interpreting events.
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Contrast pole
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In Kelly's personal construct theory, the contrast pole of a construct is defined by the way in which a third element is perceived as different from two other elements that are used to form a similar pole.
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Constructive alternativism
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Kelly's view that there is no objective reality or absolute truth, but only alternative ways of construing events.
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Fear
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In Kelly's personal construct theory, fear occurs when a new construct is about to enter the person's construct system
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Fixed-role therapy
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Kelly's therapeutic technique that makes use of scripts or roles for people to try out, thereby encouraging people to behave in new ways and to perceive themselves in new ways.
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Focus of convenience
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In kelly's personal construct theory, those events or phenomena that are best covered by a construct or by the construct system
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Peripheral construct
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In kelly's personal construct theory, a construct that is not basic to the construct system and can be altered without serious consequences for the rest of the system.
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Range of convenience
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in kelly's personal construct theory, those events or phenomena that are covered by a construct or by the construct system.
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Role construct repertory test (Rep test)
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Kelly's test to determine the constructs used by a person, the relationships among constructs, and how constructs are applied to specific people.
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Similarity pole
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in kelly's personal construct theory, the similarity pole of a construct is defined by the way in which two elements are perceived to be similar
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Submerged construct
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In kelly's personal construct theory, a construct that is lower in the construct system and is thereby included in the context of another (superordinate) construct.
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superordinate construct
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In kelly's personal construct theory, a construct that is higher in the construct system and thereby includes other constructs within its context.
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threat
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in kelly's personal construct theory, threat occurs when the person is aware of an imminent, comprehensive change in his or her construct system
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Verbal construct
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in kelly's personal construct theory, a construct that can be expressed in words.
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