PSY 505 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Personal Construct Theory, Trait Theory, Therapeutic Relationship

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 505
• Professor: Alasdair Goodwill

Document Summary

Kell(cid:455)(cid:859)s personal construct theory (pct) developed from contact with patients: like rogers and freud. Kelly highlights the uniquely human capacity to reflect on oneself and actions: freud: animalistic drives, rogers and kelly very similar. 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. Kell(cid:455) used (cid:858)constructs(cid:859) to (cid:396)efe(cid:396) to these ideas o(cid:396) (cid:272)atego(cid:396)ies (cid:449)e use to i(cid:374)te(cid:396)p(cid:396)et the (cid:449)o(cid:396)ld. Some constructs we have are the same as other people have: mainly when it"s a(cid:374) o(cid:271)je(cid:272)t o(cid:396) a (cid:858)thi(cid:374)g(cid:859) ex. a giraffe. Kell(cid:455)(cid:859)s theo(cid:396)(cid:455) la(cid:271)elled a cognitive theory- investigates the cognitive elements of our worlds: cog(cid:374)iti(cid:448)e = (cid:862)to k(cid:374)o(cid:449)(cid:863) Constructs comprise the entire knowledge we have of the world. Kelly: we interpret all life events and experiences through constructs: we would now call this inte(cid:396)p(cid:396)etatio(cid:374) as (cid:862)cognitive processes(cid:863, he(cid:374)(cid:272)e, kell(cid:455)(cid:859)s theo(cid:396)(cid:455) is ofte(cid:374) (cid:396)efe(cid:396)(cid:396)ed to as a cognitive theory.