Health Sciences 3820A/B Lecture 4: Lecture 4 - Personal Construct Theory
19 Feb 2019
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The greek philosopher heraclitus is known for the principle that the world is constantly changing. As reported by plato, heraclitus said that all things pass and nothing stays and comparing existing things to the flow of a river, he says you could not step twice into the same river. The order that we find in the world is our order - it is something that we create. Kelly viewed all humans as personal scientists. A personal scientist has constructs that serve as hypotheses about the world. These constructs are tested and revised with the goal of finding a greater sense of order in the world. Kelly"s notion of persons as scientists is based on a philosophical assumption called constructive alternativism. The philosophical assumption that all human ideas are imperfect and subject to revision or replacement. It is a rather optimistic perspective of human experience - persons always have alternative ways of construing life events.
