Theory focused on what people think - was a cognitive psychologist before there was a cognitive psychology.
 

PHILOSOPHICAL POSITION
 

Person as Scientist - Scientist as Person

Constructive Alternativism

PERSONAL CONSTRUCTS
 

Basic (Fundamental) Postulate- experience filtered by way we anticipate events
 

Supporting Corollaries

Construction - expecting replications

Individuality - differences between people

Organization - ordinal relationships

Dichotomy - opposite poles

Choice - people choose a pole

Range - convenience & focus

Experience - changes over time

Modulation - related to permeability

Fragmentation - incompatibility

Commonality - similarities

Sociality - related to roles

ABNORMAL DEVELOPMENT
 

4 Common elements in most human disturbance
 

Threat - awareness of change in one's core structure
 

Fear - more specific that threat
 

Anxiety - recognition that new experience is outside our constructs
 

Guilt - recognition that haven't been successful in role

PSYCHOTHERAPY
 

Fixed-role Therapy

ASSESSMENT
 

The REP test

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