According to Kelly, the only way to understand the human personality is to understand:
a. one's childhood experiences and evidences of basic anxiety.
b. unconscious desires and their expression in one's dreams.
c. how people interpret events and organize their social relationships in a system.
d. behavior as a manifestation of their primitive instincts.
ANS: C
FEEDBACK: According to Kelly, our interpretation of events is more important than the events themselves. Therefore, in order to understand personality, we must first understand our patterns, the ways we organize or construct our world.
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