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PSY 233 FINAL
Chapter 13 Kelly
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
12/11/2011

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Which of the following best describes Kelly's attitude toward Vaihinger's philosophy of "as if"
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he embraced it enthusiastically because it encouraged propositional thinking
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The statement, "A person anticipates events by construing their replications. "describes the _______ corollary:
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construction
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the events within the range of convience for which a construct is especially appropraite define the construct's:
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focus of convience
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during the _____ phase of CPC cycle, the person chooses that construct that seems especially relevant to the situation:
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preemption
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the term _____ refers to the roles we play while interacting with the relevant individuals and groups in our lives:
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core role structure
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the statement. "a person's construction system varies as he successively construes the replication of events," describes the _____ corollary:
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experience
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According to Kelly, human behavior is:
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free
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there are common themes running through experiences on the basis of which we create out personal constructs. This summarizes which of the following corollaries:
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construction
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the statement, "to the extent that one person employs a construction of experience which is similar to the employed by another, his psychological processes are similar to those of the other person, "describes the ____ corollary:
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commonality
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Kelly called his own theory of motivation a _____ theory:
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jackass
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Kelly used the term ____ to describe what others have referred to as a "belief system":
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core structures
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Kelly defined learning as:
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any change in one's construct system
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Kelly devised the ___ in order to identify the constructs a client uses to construe the relevant people in his or her life:
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role construct repertory test
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the statement "A person chooses for himself that alternative in a ditchotomized construct through which he anticipates the greater possibility for the extension and definition of his system," describes the ____ corollary
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choice
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According to Kelly, people _____ their experiences, which means they attempt to interpret, explain, or give meaning to those experiences:
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construe
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According to Kelly, a construct is ____ if it easily assimilates new elements:
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permeable
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For Kelly, "... continued effort to extort validational evidence in favor of a type of social prediction which has already proved itself a failure" defined:
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hostility
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For Kelly, "awareness of imminent comprehensive change in one's core structures," defined:
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threat
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Kelly referred to the emphasis on one pole of a construct while ignoring the other pole as:
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submergence
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Currently Kelly's theory is widely used in:
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the training of British clinical psychologists, market research, industrial-organizational psychology
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The statement, "A person's construction system is composed of the finite number of dichotomous constructs, "describes the _____ corollary:
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dichotomy
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According to Kelly, a carrot theory of motivation emphasizes concepts such as:
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purpose and need
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According to Kelly, human behavior is:
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controlled by the construct systems people create
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What can be understood by an individual is determined by his or her:
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construct system
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____ involves trying new construct while construing a situation:
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extension
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Which of the following occurs during the test phase of the creativity cycle:
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the creative idea discovered in a preceding stage is test for its usefullness
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Kelly called theories that employ such terms as drive, motive, and stimulus ____ theories:
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pitchfork
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Which of the following terms from Kelly's theory comes closest to what others call reward or reinforcement
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validation
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According to Jankowicz, Kelly's theory is useful in any area where it is important to know:
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how an individual's thoughts guide his or her behavior
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By the statement, "No one needs to paint himself into a corner," Kelly meant:
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We are free to construe oursleves and the world in any way we choose
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Kelly's theory can be considered ____ because it emphasizes the present or future rather than the past, and because it assumes that human are free to choose their own destiny:
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existential
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Experience alone was unimportant to Kelly; what was important was the ____ of experience
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construing
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During the _____ phase of the CPC cycle, a person tries a number of propositional constructs:
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circumspection
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According to Kelly, a person would experience ____ if a previously friendly dog growls at him or her:
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fear
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Kelly referred to the emphasis on one pole of a construct while ignoring the other pole as:
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submergence
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The statement, "A construct is convenient for the anticipation of finite range of events only," describes the ____ corollary
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range
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According to Kelly, the neurotic has lost his ability to:
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make-believe
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