PSYB30H3 Chapter 8: SELF AND OTHER
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Chapter 8: self and other social cognitive aspects of personality. Among the most important inputs in human life are our perceptions and impressions of others, which shape and are shaped by our perceptions and impressions of ourselves. He wrote and published his two volume the psychology of personal constructs in 1955 o o o. This book took the field of psychology by storm. It presented a boldly original theory of the person that seemed to bear little if any resemblance to the classic personality theories of the day, such as those proposed by freud, jung, The unusual terms kelly proposed became part of the standard lexicon of personality psychology- terms such as personal construct, range of convenience, fixed-role therapy, and rep. Many personality theories have traditionally assigned a central role to human motivation. Kelly asserted that the problem" of human motivation is not a problem at all. o o.
