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Ch 15
Cognitive - Personal Construct Theory
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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
04/20/2011

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Psychologist associated with cog/personal construct theory
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-George Kelly
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What controls beh: cog
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-cog processes (thoughts, beliefs), expectations
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cog model: focus
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-problem solving + how humans organize their perceptions
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components of self: kelly
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1. self construct: what we see as consistencies in our own beh
2. role: process/beh based on understanding of beh/constructs of others
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kelly: expectancy def
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subjective probability that reinforcement will occur (based on prior exp)
-causal infl on beh
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kelly: humans as scientists
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-increase predictability and reduce uncertainty
-hypothesis testing part of psychological life (constructs)
-retain what is useful
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kelly: constructive alternativism def
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-assumption that any event is open to a variety of interpretations (choices in ways to interpret)
-alternative constructions lead to different actions
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kelly: personal construct def
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-hypotheses about people/events that make the world meaningful to us (use for prediction)
-test in subsequent experience
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kelly: features of personal construct
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-Dichotomous: bipolar
-Range of Convenience: apply construct broadly
-Focus of Convenience: limit construct to narrow focus
-Permeable: open to change/modulation (concrete = difficult to change)
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kelly: personal construct theory
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-if constructs appear to fit subsequent experience, find them useful and hold on to them
-misleading = alter way of construing
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kelly: fundamental postulate
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-a persons processes are psychologically channelized by the ways in which he anticipates events
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kelly: corollaries
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elaborations of fundamental postulate
1. Construction: people anticipate events by interpreting them
2. Individuality: each person construes events differently (subjective)
3. Organization: people develop system of superordinate and subordinate constructs
4. Dichotomy: constructs are bipolar (opposite quality is NOT a characteristic of it)
5. Experience: change constructions of events/people in light of experience (constructive alternativism)
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kelly: how we deal with novel situations
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CPC Cycle
1. Circumspection
- if-then thinking, cog trial and error
-which construct to use?
2. Preemption
-choice of most relevant construct
3. Control
-choice of pole, course of action
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