PSYC1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Personal Construct Theory
8 Jun 2018
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Lecture 4- Cognitive
Essential Reading: 4pg 622-623 Organization and Dichotomy Corollaries
Kelly’s Personal Construct Theory
• Contrasts with psychodynamic theories as it is described as a non
dynamic theory of personality
• Theory is no static, the rate of change is slower than the dynamic
interactions that occur
• We each construct our own version reality through personal contracts
• Enables us to reach out and interpret what we experience next through
the personal constructs
• “Man creates his own way of seeing the world in which he lives in; the
world does not create them for him (Kelly, 1963 p. 12)
Theories of Personality
Dynamic vs. Non Dynamic
• Constructs enables us to make predictions
• Cognitive theory because we are primarily cognitive seeking to master
and control our environment
• Phenomelogical: study of individuals experience
• Understand how the individual experiences the world
• Interested in the first persona subject opinion, and their interpretation of
it
Postulate: statement that is accepted is true for further argument
• A person’s processes are psychologically channelized by the ways in
which he anticipates events (Kelly, 1955 p46)
Corollaries: a proposition, which follows logically from some postulate or
assumption.
Kelly’s aren’t corollaries, his are just statements
• A person anticipates events by constructing their replications (1955, p50)
• Persons differ from each other in their constructions of event (individual
differences)
• Each person characteristically evolve, for his convenience in anticipating
events, a construction system embracing ordinal relationships between
construct
• A person’s construction system is composed of a finite number of
dichotomous constructs
Role Construct Repertory Test
• Assess personality
• Requires subject patient to compare his/her interpretations
• Questionnaire
Evaluation
• Its clear to pass the clarity test
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