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    George Kelly (1905-1966) developed Personal Construct Theory (PCT), a cognitive theory of personality stating that individuals construe, or make meaning of events, and that personality develops from these cognitions. PCT consists of a fundamental postulate that people anticipate events based on their constructs, along with 11 corollary assumptions about how constructs are formed, organized, and revised based on experiences. Psychological health involves having the flexibility to revise one's constructs based on new evidence.

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    George Kelly (1905-1966) developed Personal Construct Theory (PCT), a cognitive theory of personality stating that individuals construe, or make meaning of events, and that personality develops from these cognitions. PCT consists of a fundamental postulate that people anticipate events based on their constructs, along with 11 corollary assumptions about how constructs are formed, organized, and revised based on experiences. Psychological health involves having the flexibility to revise one's constructs based on new evidence.

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    George Kelly (1905-1966) developed Personal Construct Theory (PCT), a cognitive theory of personality stating that individuals construe, or make meaning of events, and that personality develops from these cognitions. PCT consists of a fundamental postulate that people anticipate events based on their constructs, along with 11 corollary assumptions about how constructs are formed, organized, and revised based on experiences. Psychological health involves having the flexibility to revise one's constructs based on new evidence.

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    George Kelly (1905-1966)

    Kelly was responsible for Personal Constructs Theory (PCT), a theory of personality that
    he developed in the 1950's. PCT states that personality development is a function of our
    cognitions, specifically of how we construe, or make meaning of, events in our lives. It's
    almost an entirely cognitive theory. Other aspects of being human, such as learning,
    affect or emotion, needs, or behavior are subsumed under cognitions. Kelly rejected the
    drive notion in psychoanalytic theory and stated that we are constantly construing our
    world in some sort of organized fashion. According to Kelly, freedom is the ability to
    construe alternatives and to revise our constructs. He would say: "No person needs to
    be a victim of his or her own biography."

    Personal constructs are an individual's conclusions, interpretations, or deductions about


    life. PCT consisted of one fundamental postulate and 11 corollary assumptions.

    The fundamental postulate states: A person's processes are psychologically channelized


    (like activation patterns) by the ways in which he (or she) anticipates events.

    The 11 corollary assumptions state:


    1. Construction Corollary—A person anticipates events by construing their recurrent
    themes, or recapitulations.
    2. Individuality Corollary—Persons differ from one another in their construction of
    events.
    3. Organization Corollary—Some constructs may subsume other constructs for the
    convenience of anticipating events.
    4. Dichotomy Corollary—Constructs are finite and are dichotomous in nature.
    5. Choice Corollary—An individual will choose the behavioral alternatives that
    appear to present the greatest possibility for enhancing his ability to predict
    future events.
    6. Range Corollary—One construct can't generalize to all events
    7. Experience Corollary—All our interpretations of the universe are subject to
    revision—we only achieve successive approximation to the truth (Constructs are
    working hypotheses which can be revised).
    8. Modulation Corollary—The variation in a person's construct system is limited by
    the permeability of its superordinate constructs.
    9. Fragmentation Corollary—A person may successively employ a variety of
    construction systems which are inferentially incompatible with each other.
    10. Commonality Corollary—To the extent that one person employs a construction of
    experience which is similar to that employed by another, his psychological
    processes are similar to those of the other person—how two people with
    different experiences can have similar constructions of events, like kindred
    spirits.
    11. Sociality Corollary—To the extent that one person construes the construction
    processes of another, he may play a role in a social process involving the other
    person—empathy and social relationships.

    Psychological health is the ability to revise our constructs based on evidence. The goal
    of PCT in therapy is to: 1) help the person increase their freedom of movement in life
    by helping them to revise their constructs when necessary and 2) help the client to
    make better predictions of their environment.

    Kelly also talked about "Man-As-Scientist" and being able to revise constructs based on
    experience. The Experience Cycle was how this occurred, which involved 5 steps:
    1. Anticipation (the hypothesis)
    2. Investment in the event
    3. Encounter with the event
    4. Confirmation or disconfirmation of the hypothesis or the anticipation, and
    5. Constructive Revision depending on the outcome (confirmation or
    disconfirmation.)

    Based on Kelly, G. (1963). A Theory of Personality: The Psychology of Personal


    Constructs. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.

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