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5) Personal Construct Theory & Integration (Integration & future…
5) Personal Construct Theory & Integration
Integration & future directions
Criticisms of personality theories
Role of culture
Individualism V Collectivism
Future directions for research
Current status of personality research
Integrative perspective
McAdam's Personality Triad
Character adaptions
Identity as life story
Dispositional traits
Personal Construct Theory
Personal Construct Theory
- George Kelly
The Fundamental Postulate & Corollaries
Cognitive & humanistic approach to personality
We view & understand the world through "personal constructs" which determine our experience
Corollaries
Dichotomy
View world as bipolar constructs/opposites/dualism
Judgements of self are dichotomous (i am good, I am bad)
Eg. We use it in psychology: free will VS determinism, nature VS nurture
Modulation
Experiences make our constructs change, widen, shrink
Permeability
Dilation & constriction
Accomodation (new info is accomodated)
Assimilation (fits exisiting view)
Mental flexibiility
Embracing/rejecting new ideas
Constructive Alternativism
Change perspective = change experience (there are alternative constructions available to choose from)
Implicit account of free-will (empowered to choose alternative constructs)- Yet Kelly rejects this idea because of it's dichotomy
The meaning we ascribe to events is flexible
Evaluation
Assessment
Identify similarities & differences between things
Reperatory Grid Technique
Therapy
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Sewell et al research
Mass shooting event
Explaination
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Irrational thinking
Grandosity
Personalisation:
All or nothing:
Over-generalisation
Catastrophising:
Use