PSYCH-220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Psych, Complex System
28 Oct 2020
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Learned or developed before the person acquired language. Similar to freud"s idea of the unconscious. When one of the poles is no longer available to be able to be verbalized or noticed. Either the similarity or contrast pole is now submerged, and out of our awareness (but it was once available to us) Relates to all aspects of a person"s functioning. Can change without having a huge impact on the person"s whole construct system. Range of convenience = all those events for which application of the construct is useful. Focus of convenience = the particular events for which the application of the construct would be maximally useful. If you change one construct, it can have a domino effect on other constructs. Participant names people in their life, the examiner picks three of them, asks participant to think about how two of them are alike and how 1 is different (similarity and contrast poles)
