A person may successively employ a variety of construction subsystems which are inferentially incompatible with each other. The subsystem is imperfect and personality is inconsistent.
To the extent that someone employs a construction of experience which is similar to that of another. This plays a role in the social process involving the other person.
To the extent that someone employs a construction of experience which is similar to that of another. This plays a role in the social process involving the other person.
A persons construction system varies as they successively construe the (non-) replication of events. If anticipation fails, constructs can change.
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2. According to clinical applications of Freudian theory, what is catharsis?
Remembering the original cause of the trauma.
Taking out the emotions on another source
Putting the dark thoughts into the subconscious mind
3. True or false? The numbers of forward scored and reverse scored items on a tests should be roughly equal to reduce acquiescence bias.
True
False
4. What is factor rotation?
Allows you to hypothesise links between variables and check how well it fits the data.
Use orthogonal rotation which assumes factors are independent. The solution is more interpretable.
Allows factors to be correlated and the solution is less interpretable
5. What is the construction corollary?
A construct is convenient for the anticipation of the finite range of events only. No construct does everything.
A person anticipates events by construing their replications - they expect the future to be like the past and prior theory yields prediction.
To understand the world we break it up into bipolar constructs. A persons construction system is composed of a finite number of dichotomous constructs.
Each person characteristically evolves for their convenience in anticipating events a construction system embracing ordinal relationships between constructs. This relationship between constructs can be tight, loose or no relationship.
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