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    Cognitive Perspective: George Kelly: Dr. Norsuhaily

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    George Kelly's theory of constructive alternativism holds that people are capable of changing their interpretations of events and are responsible agents who make their own choices rather than merely reacting to experiences. According to Kelly, people are like scientists who continually evaluate and reevaluate their experiences in an attempt to predict and control events. We place interpretations or "constructions" on events based on our experiences, which shape our reality and determine how we act. Kelly outlined several corollaries about how people organize and apply their constructions, including that expectations direct actions and people can understand and predict others' behavior by understanding their personal construct systems.

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    George Kelly's theory of constructive alternativism holds that people are capable of changing their interpretations of events and are responsible agents who make their own choices rather than merely reacting to experiences. According to Kelly, people are like scientists who continually evaluate and reevaluate their experiences in an attempt to predict and control events. We place interpretations or "constructions" on events based on our experiences, which shape our reality and determine how we act. Kelly outlined several corollaries about how people organize and apply their constructions, including that expectations direct actions and people can understand and predict others' behavior by understanding their personal construct systems.

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    George Kelly's theory of constructive alternativism holds that people are capable of changing their interpretations of events and are responsible agents who make their own choices rather than merely reacting to experiences. According to Kelly, people are like scientists who continually evaluate and reevaluate their experiences in an attempt to predict and control events. We place interpretations or "constructions" on events based on our experiences, which shape our reality and determine how we act. Kelly outlined several corollaries about how people organize and apply their constructions, including that expectations direct actions and people can understand and predict others' behavior by understanding their personal construct systems.

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    Cognitive Perspective: George Kelly: Dr. Norsuhaily

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    George Kelly's theory of constructive alternativism holds that people are capable of changing their interpretations of events and are responsible agents who make their own choices rather than merely reacting to experiences. According to Kelly, people are like scientists who continually evaluate and reevaluate their experiences in an attempt to predict and control events. We place interpretations or "constructions" on events based on our experiences, which shape our reality and determine how we act. Kelly outlined several corollaries about how people organize and apply their constructions, including that expectations direct actions and people can understand and predict others' behavior by understanding their personal construct systems.

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    Cognitive Perspective : George Kelly

    Constructive alternativism :
     All of us are capable of changing our present
    interpretation of events
     Our behavior is rarely completely
    predetermined
     Responsible agents who make their own
    choices
     We do not merely react to experiences, we act
    upon them
    DR. NORSUHAILY 1
     We do not merely react to experiences, we
    act upon them

     Some of our behavior are determined by


    other phenomena

     One is free to choose a goal,but once


    chosen,the goal determines the behavior

    DR. NORSUHAILY 2
    Human beings as scientists
     Kelly believed we continually evaluate &
    reevaluate our experiences

     Each of us attempts to predict & control


    events

    DR. NORSUHAILY 3
    The nature of constructs &
    construing
     We place interpretations on events
     We construe the meaning of events through
    abstraction process by placing
    constructions upon our experiences
     The interpretations are our reality & they
    determine how we act
     Based on our previous experiences

    DR. NORSUHAILY 4
    Major kinds of constructs
     Core constructs
     Constructs can be characterized as
    preemptive, constellatory & propositional
     Preemptive construct
     Constellatory construct
     Propositional construct
     Nonverbal constructs
    DR. NORSUHAILY 5
    Fundamental postulate
     Expectations direct actions
     Construction corollary - regularity
     Individuality corollary - anticipate
    differently
     Organization corollary – differ in the in w/h
    they organize the construct
     Dichotomy corollary – constructs are bipolar
     Choice corollary – make choices

    DR. NORSUHAILY 6
     Range corollary – relevancy
     Permeability
     Fragmentation corollary – interpret events
    similarly will behave alike
     Sociality corollary – understand other
    person’s construct system, we can predict
    his behavior & adjust accordingly

    7
    Personality development
     To maximize understanding of the world
    through elaboration of construct system
     Innate
     Actively construe the environment & then
    use the constructions to anticipate events
     Previous experience
     Circumspection-preemption-control cycle

    DR. NORSUHAILY 8

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