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Humanistic/Existential Theories

Kelly: Psychology of Personal Constructs

True or False


1	George Kelly's theory is a theory about theories.
		A)	TRUE
		B)	FALSE


2	Kelly's theory allows for change even in its own basic assumptions.
		A)	TRUE
		B)	FALSE


3	Kelly insisted that behavior is shaped by a person's environment.
		A)	TRUE
		B)	FALSE


4	Kelly realized that his theory was a set of half-truths.
		A)	TRUE
		B)	FALSE


5	Kelly accepted the phenomenological position that our perceptions are our only reality.
		A)	TRUE
		B)	FALSE


6	Like Adler, Kelly thought that our interpretation of events is more important than the events themselves.
		A)	TRUE
		B)	FALSE


7	Kelly assumed that the universe really existed.
		A)	TRUE
		B)	FALSE


8	Kelly believed it was virtually impossible for incompatible constructs to exist within a person.
		A)	TRUE
		B)	FALSE


9	Personal construct theory attempts to explain nature.
		A)	TRUE
		B)	FALSE


10	A person's construction system exists only in the present.
		A)	TRUE
		B)	FALSE


11	Kelly believed that psychological disorders were a result of childhood experiences.
		A)	TRUE
		B)	FALSE


12	People who have never developed a core role do not feel guilty.
		A)	TRUE
		B)	FALSE


13	The personal construction systems of people with psychological disorders are much narrower than the construction systems of psychologically healthy individuals.
		A)	TRUE
		B)	FALSE


14	Kelly believed that people belong to the same cultural group mostly because they construe their experience in the same manner.
		A)	TRUE
		B)	FALSE


15	The purpose of fixed-role therapy is to help clients change their outlook on life by having them act out a predetermined role.
		A)	TRUE
		B)	FALSE


16	Kelly had a basically pessimistic view of human nature.
		A)	TRUE
		B)	FALSE


17	Personal construct theory is more teleological than causal.
		A)	TRUE
		B)	FALSE


18	Watson and Watts (2001) found that the Rep test was a more useful assessment instrument for neuroticism than was a conventional instrument.
		A)	TRUE
		B)	FALSE


19	Kelly can be classified as a humanistic theorist.
		A)	TRUE
		B)	FALSE


20	Research with the Rep test has demonstrated that the Big Five factor theory is limited to results from a small group of standardized personality inventories.
		A)	TRUE
		B)	FALSE

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