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cmoore54

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Kelly's personality theory is based on concepts such as the unconscious, the ego, needs, drives, stimuli and responses, and reinforcement.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

Question 2

All of the following are criticisms of Kelly's theory except that:
 
  a. it omits motivation and emotion.
  b. it is based on an unrepresentative sample.
  c. the concept of the unconscious lacks empirical support.
  d. the rational image of human nature does not coincide with reality.



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Answer to Question 1

ANS: F
FEEDBACK: Kelly warned us that we would not find in his system such familiar concepts as the unconscious, the ego, needs, drives, stimuli and responses, and reinforcementnot even motivation and emotion.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: C
FEEDBACK: Many psychologists see Kelly's theory as too different from prevailing ideas. Personality psychologists typically think in terms of the familiar concepts of motivation and emotion, unconscious forces, drives, and needs, which form no part of Kelly's system.





 

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