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Team 9
Shreyas PatiShwetabh SinhaSmruti Sankar LenkaSneha PoddarSourya Chatterjee
Swati Agarwal
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Brief Biography
Theory of Personal Constructs
Postulates & Corollary
Application-Repertory Grid
Bibliography
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George Kelly (April 28, 1905March 6,1967)American psychologist, therapist & educator
Born in a farming community near SummerCounty, Kansas
Bachelors degree in Physics & Mathematicsfrom Park college, Missouri in 1926
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Developed interest in psychology while
studying education at University of Edinburgh
in 1929
In WWII worked as an aviation psychologist
Appointed as the Director of Clinical
Psychology at Ohio State University
Published The Psychology of Personal
Constructs in 1955
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Interviewer Bias
Specificity in measuring
Over-dependence on the expert
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Common
Man
Reality Constructs
Anticipations
Behaviors
Scientist
Theories
Hypotheses
Experiments
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Construct
Constructed Construe
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A persons processes arepsychologically channelized bythe ways in which heanticipates events.
FundamentalPostulate
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Construct system varies withsuccessive replication of events
Each construct system iscomposed of dichotomousconstructs
Each person anticipatesevents by construing theirreplications
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Construct is convenient foranticipating a finite range ofevents only
Variation in a construct systemdepends upon the permeabilityof constructs
Ordinal relationship betweendifferent constructs for theease of anticipating events
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Different people have differentconstructs of the same event
Similarity in construct systemleads to resemblance inpsychological processes
Choosing an alternative indichotomized construct toextend his construct
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The role others play in onessocial process affects the
construct system proportionately
Successive construct sub-systems may be incompatiblewith each other
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Selecting a set of elements
Take the elements in the group of
three
Ask the question
A. REPERTORY GRID TECHNIQUE
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DontSupply
Contrastpole
DontSummarizeIntervieweeConstructs
DontIndicate
thatConstructs
are Judged
DontJudge theImportance
of
Constructs
Keeping The Grid Free from Interviewer Bias
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REPERTORY GRIDTECHNIQUE IN REALITY
Object/People
Pole1 MeMogambo
Gandhi
Osama
Shwetabh
Shaktiman
Einstein
Joker
Mr.India
DrN
o
Sneha
Pole2Zealot \ \ X Rational
Idealistic
\
\
X
Pragmatic
Fickle X \ \ SincereEccentric \ \ X Supportive
Boisterous \ X \ Calm
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B. PSYCOPATHOLOGY & THERAPY
Psychological disorder
Use of repeated personal construct in spite of constant
invalidation.
Therapy Reconstruction
Experiments
Role Playing
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B. PERSONAL EXPERIENCES & RELATIONS
Patients experience and relationships.
Working with the significant others
Myself Vs How others like me to be !!!
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http://integral-options.blogspot.com/2010/04/george-kellys-personal-construct-theory.html
http://www.learningandteaching.info/learning/personal.htm
http://www.enquirewithin.co.nz/theoryof.htm
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http://www.pcp-net.org/encyclopaedia/kelly.html
http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/kelly.html
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