Health Sciences 3820A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Potato Starch, Personal Construct Theory
1 Mar 2018
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Personal construct approach: persons as scientists, constructive alternativism, fundamental postulate and 11 corollaries, next week cases (reading e) In this ever-changing world, it is necessary to create a sense of order and continuity. (tomorrow is going to seem like today, even though it is an entirely different day). Constructive alternativism the philosophical assumption that all human ideas are imperfect and subject to revision or replacement. It is tempting to think of a fact as something that is true for all time, across all situations: however, in kelly"s view, events do not have fixed, irrevocable meanings. There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact. sherlock holmes. Personal construct theory is organized in terms of fundamental postulate and a series of 11 corollaries. A series of eleven statements which may be loosely inferred from the postulate. A person anticipates events by construing their replications. (these corollaries are just facets, saying that people are different.
