Exam 11: George Kelly: Personal Construct Theory

A) manipulate their subconscious thoughts.
B) release their repressed emotions and experiences.
C) predict and control the events in their lives.
D) assess the behavior of other people.

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A) are likely to hail from monocultural backgrounds.
B) tend to have authoritarian parents.
C) are low in empathic ability.
D) can easily place a person in many categories.

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A) A person's constructs measured by the REP Test remain stable over time.
B) Even though the role models changed,the constructs that were important to the subjects remained the same.
C) Couples with similar constructs reported greater happiness with their marriage.
D) All of these are correct.

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A) established psychological theories.
B) the archetypes in collective unconscious.
C) the reality of daily life.
D) unconscious fears and desires.

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A) discover a person's position in the needs hierarchy.
B) determine a person's roles according to his or her construct system.
C) manipulate the dominant construct in an individual.
D) uncover the constructs people apply to the important people in their lives.

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A) They cannot identify objects that are used for similar purposes.
B) They are unstable and inconsistent in construing other people.
C) They can solely identify people and objects in a clinical setting.
D) None of these are correct.

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A) has been used as a supplementary test in psychoanalysis.
B) has been used in market research.
C) cannot be used in industrial settings.
D) cannot be used with schizophrenics.

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A) range
B) modulation
C) sociality
D) commonality

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A) people modify their constructs as a result of new experiences.
B) an individual must also account for dissimilarities among people or events.
C) people modify their behavior based on other people's ideas of them.
D) two individuals often perceive events in opposite and mutually exclusive ways.

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A) cognitive processes
B) biological processes
C) unconscious desires
D) instinctoid needs

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A) constructive determinism.
B) constructive interference.
C) constructive alternativism.
D) constructive dichotomy.

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A) is held as a supplementary therapy in psychoanalysis.
B) is held as a basic principle of classical conditioning.
C) is very popular among psychologists in the United States.
D) enjoys a broad base of support in Europe and Canada.

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A) it omits motivation and emotion.
B) it is based on an unrepresentative sample.
C) the concept of the unconscious lacks empirical support.
D) the rational image of human nature does not coincide with reality.

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A) similar.
B) identical.
C) fragmented.
D) permeable.

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A) specific neuroses among clients due to basic anxiety.
B) the accuracy of the repertory grid.
C) the corollaries dominating a client's life.
D) how people perceive themselves in relation to others.

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A) A client should reinforce his or her existing constructs based on his or her negative self-perception.
B) A client should discover that the new constructs work better in anticipating events than the old constructs by which the client was living.
C) A client must be able to deal with role-stresses by focusing on a fixed role at a particular point in time.
D) A client must develop new a construct system in alignment with his or her roles and responsibilities in the family.

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