Question 1

Kelly's theory of personality is more popular in ____ than in the United States.

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A)   Russia and China
B)   Europe, Canada, and Australia
C)   Central and South America
D)   South Africa and Egypt

Question 2

The idea that two constructs may be consistent in one situation and inconsistent in another situation is the

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A)   congruence corollary.
B)   fragmentation corollary.
C)   successive modulation corollary.
D)   situational corollary.

Question 3

To anticipate events correctly,constructs must be

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A)   based on exact replications of past events.
B)   dichotomous or bipolar.
C)   general enough to encompass various events.
D)   focused on the similarities among events.

Question 4

Kelly's approach to psychotherapy

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A)   is called fixed role therapy.
B)   involves changing undesirable constructs.
C)   has the client act the role of a fictitious person.
D)   all of the answers

Question 5

Kelly viewed human nature as

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A)   genetically determined.
B)   rational.
C)   determined by childhood events.
D)   a hierarchy of needs arranged as constructs.

Question 6

The only way a construct system can remain rigid is if the person

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A)   is self-actualizing.
B)   has a wide range of convenience.
C)   encounters no new experiences.
D)   is extremely self-confident.

Question 7

Kelly promoted a form of psychotherapy called ____ therapy.

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A)   client-centered
B)   construct revision
C)   fixed role
D)   corollary

Question 8

Once formed,constructs tend to

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A)   last only a short time.
B)   allow no possibility for change.
C)   weaken as we grow older.
D)   guide our behavior.

Question 9

Kelly's theory is based on the idea that

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A)   people in a culture construe events in identical ways.
B)   future events duplicate past events.
C)   personality is unchanging.
D)   themes from the past will appear in the future.

Question 10

A construct's range of convenience is the

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A)   range of events to which it can be applied.
B)   number of needs it satisfies.
C)   number of people who hold the same construct.
D)   applicability to normal and abnormal behavior.

Question 11

All of the following are important aspects of Kelly's image of human nature except

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A)   optimism.
B)   free will.
C)   pessimism.
D)   rationality.

Question 12

George Kelly's approach to personality is called

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A)   psychoanalysis.
B)   positive construct theory.
C)   individual psychology.
D)   personal construct theory.

Question 13

Kelly's early clinical work dealt with

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A)   psychotic children.
B)   students who were referred by their teachers for counseling.
C)   severely neurotic adults.
D)   institutionalized psychotic adults.

Question 14

In a dichotomized construct,the alternative we select is determined by

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A)   past reinforcements.
B)   how exactly it reflects past events.
C)   how well it predicts future events.
D)   unconscious forces.

Question 15

According to Kelly,a construct is

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A)   an innate drive.
B)   our way of explaining or interpreting the world.
C)   a result of past reinforcement.
D)   the need to actualize the self.

Question 16

Kelly treated severely disturbed psychotics in mental hospitals and neurotics with troublesome emotional problems.

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A) True 
 B)False

Question 17

The test of a construct system is how well it

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A)   softens harsh reality.
B)   duplicates reality.
C)   predicts events.
D)   explains past events.

Question 18

The Role Construct Repertory (REP) Test is used to

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A)   uncover complexes.
B)   determine the person's roles.
C)   reveal the development of anticipations.
D)   uncover the pattern of constructs.

Question 19

REP test research shows that schizophrenics are unstable and inconsistent in construing

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A)   objects.
B)   other people.
C)   both people and objects.
D)   Schizophrenics cannot respond to REP Test questions.

Question 20

A construct is a

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A)   group of shared family experiences that shape an individual in a certain direction.
B)   set of early experiences in childhood that constricts our personality in adulthood.
C)   distorted interpretation of the world that is not in accord with reality.
D)   person's way to devise intellectual hypotheses to explain or interpret events.

Exam 11: George Kelly: Personal Construct Theory

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