Kelly's personal construct theory states that personality can be understood by:
a.
determining the influence of the unconscious on one's conscious behavior.
c.
understanding one's need for safety and the anxiety caused by the lack of it.
b.
the way people organize and interpret their world.
d. the passive response to stimuli in our environment.
ANS: B
FEEDBACK: According to Kelly, each person creates a set of cognitive constructs about the environment. That is, we interpret and organize the events and social relationships of our lives in a system or pattern. On the basis of this pattern, we make predictions about ourselves and about other people and events, and we use these predictions to formulate our responses and guide our actions. Therefore, in order to understand personality, we must first understand our patterns, the ways we organize or construct our world.
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