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Kelly's college education may have influenced his later writings, which are sprinkled with |
| | A) | agricultural references. |
| | B) | show business references. |
| | C) | biblical references. |
| | D) | musical references. |
| | E) | classical mythology. |
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Kelly's personal construct theory should be viewed as |
| | A) | a metatheory. |
| | B) | a psychoanalytic theory. |
| | C) | an existential theory. |
| | D) | a behavioral theory. |
| | E) | a factor analytic theory. |
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Kelly compared a person's attempts to interpret and explain events to
those of |
| | A) | a scientist. |
| | B) | a psychotherapist. |
| | C) | an animal. |
| | D) | an engineer. |
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Kelly believed that his theory, like all others, |
| | A) | is a metatheory. |
| | B) | should explain unconscious motivation. |
| | C) | is subject to change and revision. |
| | D) | should be limited to "normal" behavior. |
| | E) | should be based on nomothetic research methods.should be based on nomothetic research methods. |
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Kelly's assumption that present interpretations are subject to revision and change is called |
| | A) | scientific determinism. |
| | B) | constructive alternativism. |
| | C) | theoretical empiricism. |
| | D) | alternative constructivism. |
| | E) | empirical constructionism. |
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Kelly explicitly assumed that |
| | A) | the universe exists. |
| | B) | all reality is subjective. |
| | C) | the universe is beyond human understanding. |
| | D) | everyone is motivated to rise above their peers |
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Facts, according to Kelly, |
| | A) | a. are immutable. |
| | B) | determine our perceptions. |
| | C) | carry meaning for us to discover. |
| | D) | are discovered by scientists and disseminated to nonscientists. |
| | E) | are discovered by scientists and then disseminated to other scientists. |
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Personal constructs are best defined as |
| | A) | subjective opinions held without substantiating evidence. |
| | B) | events that are shaped by personal biases. |
| | C) | alternative ways of looking at the world. |
| | D) | transparent templates or patterns that help people make sense
out of the world. |
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All personal constructs, Kelly said, have at least |
| | A) | one comparison and one contrast. |
| | B) | two comparisons and one contrast. |
| | C) | one comparison and two contrasts. |
| | D) | two comparisons and two contrasts. |
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Kelly's fundamental postulate assumes that |
| | A) | present behavior is guided by past experiences. |
| | B) | people guide their actions by the ways they predict the future. |
| | C) | all behavior, without exception, is completely determined by and pertinent to one's phenomenal field. |
| | D) | personal constructs are convenient for an infinite range of events. |
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Kelly's construction corollary assumes that people |
| | A) | construe similar events in an identical fashion. |
| | B) | construe similar events in very different ways. |
| | C) | interpret future events according to their recurrent themes. |
| | D) | both a and c. |
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The notion that people differ from one another in their construction of events best describes Kelly's __________ corollary. |
| | A) | choice |
| | B) | experience |
| | C) | organization |
| | D) | individuality |
| | E) | dichotomy |
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Which of Kelly's corollaries explicitly assumes an ordinal relationship
among constructs? |
| | A) | organization |
| | B) | dichotomy |
| | C) | fragmentation |
| | D) | construction |
| | E) | individuality |
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The assumption that personal constructs are limited to a finite number of events reflects which corollary? |
| | A) | choice |
| | B) | commonality |
| | C) | fragmentation |
| | D) | range |
| | E) | organization |
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Permeable constructs |
| | A) | hold no information. |
| | B) | permit change. |
| | C) | restrict adaptation. |
| | D) | cannot be anticipated. |
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Which of Kelly's corollaries assumes that people can hold seemingly incompatible beliefs? |
| | A) | choice |
| | B) | organization |
| | C) | fragmentation |
| | D) | dichotomy |
| | E) | individuality |
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Kelly defined a role as |
| | A) | a facade we erect to prevent others from seeing who we really are. |
| | B) | a pattern of behavior resulting from our understanding of the constructs of others. |
| | C) | the extent to which we accurately construe the constructions of others. |
| | D) | d. an invalid personal construct in need of the validation of another. |
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Kelly compared psychologically unhealthy people to |
| | A) | incompetent scientists. |
| | B) | bankrupt businesses. |
| | C) | a dry riverbed. |
| | D) | physically unhealthy people. |
| | E) | used Christmas trees. |
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Kelly defined threat as |
| | A) | any incidental modification of a personal construct. |
| | B) | the awareness of an immediate and basic change to the core structure. |
| | C) | any action or behavior inconsistent with one's core role experience. |
| | D) | failure to develop a core role. |
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In order to facilitate clients’ discovery of hidden aspects of themselves,
Kelly used |
| | A) | hypnosis. |
| | B) | dream interpretation. |
| | C) | fixed-role therapy. |
| | D) | early recollections. |
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2002 McGraw-Hill Higher Education