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7 Cards in this Set
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Cognitive approach(2) |
Major break from theoretical approaches to personality Focus is on individual thoughts as the determinate of his/her emotions and behaviour and therefore personality |
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Kelly's view on personality(3) |
People are rational beings who make sense of the world by means of personal constructs Humans are governed by internal, cognitive processes that develop as a result of external, social relationships Free will; ability to choose between alternative constructs |
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Personal constructs(3) |
Representations of the world that allow people to make sense of their world that allow them to anticipate the future Serve as personal hypothesis Imperfect; infinite structures Under continual revision |
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Kelly's fundamental postulate |
Key to behaviour is in the future rather than the past |
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Kelly's 11 corollaries |
Construction Individuality Organisation Dichotomy Choice Range Experience Modulation Fragmentation Commonality Sociality |
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Kelly's corollaries(7) |
People expect things to happen the same all the time If not, altered personal construct Only altered to allow this new information Some constructs more open to change than others Each person's construct unique to that person Different can be employed in similiar situations Do not exist in isolation |
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Evaluating Kelly's theory (6) |
Unique thinking Creation of a fresh, novel personality theory Made significant contributions to education, learning, artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction Criticised for being too intellectual Exclusive focus on cognition, not enough focus on emotions Some ideas remain unverified by research |
