How can an Understanding of Personal Constructs improve our understanding of Social Behaviour?
… of an individual is “psychologically channelised by the way he anticipates events” (Kelly, 1955 Page 46) and therefore mimics the following stages: – * Thinking- Individual has his own perception of the world * Problem Solving- Individual builds certain construct “theories” * Prediction- These constructs are tried on for size * Analysis- “The result of the testing of constructs determines the desirability of their temporary retention, their revision or their immediate replacement” (Kelly, 1955 Page 44) Such constructs are “transparent patters or templates which he creates then attempts to fit over the realities of which the world is composed” (Kelly 1955, Page 7). Despite the key point that such constructs are personal as are characteristics of personality, typically every individual has eight-nine main constructs and several minor ones that are embodied within super-ordinate and subordinate sub-categories. These constructs are bi-polar due to their contradicting terms, such as X m
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