PSY 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Psychopathology, Defenseless, Trait Theory
24 Jun 2020
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Kelly"s personal construct theory (pct) developed from contact with patients. Kelly highlights the uniquely human capacity to reflect on ones self and actions. Kelly much more interested in the cognitive processes though. Kelly focused on how we categorize people, things, objects and make meaning out of everyday events and experiences. Kelly used constructs" to refer to these ideas or categories we use to interpret the world. Learn during childhood; helps interact and communicate. Some constructs we have are the same as other people have. Mainly when its an object or a thing" e. g. a giraffe. But some of our constructs vary (to differing extents) Mainly to do with people and experiences (emotions, personality descriptions, thoughts) E. g. your friend introduces you to someone who they say is funny and you cant understand why/how you don"t find them funny at all. Investigates the cognitive elements of our worlds. Constructs comprise the entire knowledge we have of the world.
