Cognitvie theory of personality

sociology

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COGNITVIE THEORY OF
PERSONALITY
QURATULAIN MUGHAL
BATCH IV
DOCTOR OF PHYSICAL THERAPY
ISRA UNIVERSITY

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DEFINITION
•“To know” or “to recognize” or “to
conceptualize”
•Its refer to the mental process of an
organism learns, remembers, think about
a body of information.

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COGNITIVE THEORY
•Cognitive theory is focused on the
individual’s thoughts as the determinate of
his or her emotions and behaviors and
therefore personality.
•Many cognitive theorists believe that
without these thought processes, we could
have no emotions and no behavior and
would therefore not function.

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CONTIN…
•In other words, thoughts always come
before any feeling and before any action.
•By changing our thoughts, we can change
our mood, decrease our anxiety, or
improve our relationships.

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George Kelly (1905-1966 )
•Kelly was responsible for Personal
Constructs Theory (PCT).
•A theory of cognitive personality that he
developed in the 1950's.
•Cognitive theory of personality explains
differences in personality as differences in
the way people process information.

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Core concepts of George Kelly's
Cognitive Theory of Personality
•The Psychology of Personal Construct
•Constructive Alternativism
•People as Scientists
•Personal Construct Theory
•Constructs: Templates for Reality
•Personality: The Personologist's
Construct

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The Psychology of Personal
Construct
•George Kelly, a practicing clinical psychologist,
was the first personologist to emphasize the
cognitive or knowing aspects of human
existence as the dominant feature of personality.
•According to his theoretical system, the
Psychology of Personal Constructs, a person is
basically a scientist, striving to understand,
interpret, anticipate, and control the personal
world of experience for the purpose of dealing
effectively with it.

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Constructive Alternativism
•Kelly developed his personal constructs theory
on the basis of a single philosophical
assumption constructive alternativism.
•Kelly's major premise was that all humans act
like scientists in that way they attempt to reduce
uncertainty by developing theories (construct
system) which allow them to anticipate future
events accurately.
•Individuals interpret, explain, or predict, the
events in their lives by utilizing his constructs.

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CONTIN….
•A construct is a category of thought that
describes how events are similar to each
other and yet different from other events.
•All individuals are free to choose, create
whatever constructs they choose in their
attempts to give meaning to their
experiences.
•This freedom to choose constructs is
called constructive alternativism.

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People as Scientists
•Kelly's major premise was that all humans act
like scientists in that way they attempt to reduce
uncertainty by developing theories (construct
system) which allow them to anticipate future
events accurately.
•Kelly proposed a model of personality based on
the analogy of a person as a scientist.
•Kelly did not propose that every person is
literally a scientist who attends to some limited
aspect of the world and employs sophisticated
methods to gather and assess data.

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Personal Construct Theory
•The heart of Kelly's cognitive theory lies in
the manner in which individuals perceive
and interpret people and things in their
environments.
•Labeling his approach personal construct
theory, Kelly focused on the psychological
processes which enable the person to
order and understand the events of his or
her life.

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Personality: The Personologist's
Construct
•Kelley believed that personality is an
abstraction made by personologists of the
psychological processes they observe in
others.
•Someone's personality is to know how she
or he construes personal experience.

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Constructs: Templates for
Reality
•A construct is a category of thought that describes how
events are similar to each other and yet different from
other events.
•In Kelly's personological system, the key theoretical
construct is the term Construct itself:
•“Man looks at his world through transparent patterns or
templates which he creates and then attempts to fit over
the realities of which the world is composed .The fit is
not always very good. Yet without such patterns the
world appears to be such an undifferentiated
homogeneity that man is unable to make any sense out
of it”

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