PSYCH 2B03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Self-Reference, Information Processing, Observational Learning
8 Dec 2015
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Pages 454-459 from chapter 13, chapters 15 & 17. Chapter thirteen: experience, existence, and the meaning of. George kelly thought that a person"s individual experience of the world was the most important part of their psychology. Kelly"s contribution was to emphasize how one"s cognitive system assembles one"s various construal"s of the world into individually held theories called personal constructs. These constructs help determine how new experienced care construed. Kelly viewed constructs as bipolar dimensions along which people or objects can be arranged: each person"s cognitive system is made of a unique set of constructs. The ways you discriminate among these objects, people, and ideas different from the third reveal the constructs through which you view the world. Particular constructs are more readily brought to mind in certain individuals chronically accessible constructs. Constructs come from (but are not determined by) past experience. The theory is your personal construct system, which becomes the framework for your perceptions and thoughts about the world.
