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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

http://www.davidcenter.com/documents/Journal%20Articles/GEORGE_A_KELLY.pdf

http://www.pcp-net.org/encyclopaedia/kelly.html

http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/kelly.html

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g2699/is_0005/ai_2699000519/

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