James Bieri Has Extended Kelly's Work on Cognitive Personality Theory

question 54

Multiple Choice

James Bieri has extended Kelly's work on cognitive personality theory by working with the concept of cognitive complexity-simplicity. Among other things, his research seems to indicate that

• A) cognitively simple people seem to be more accurate in their predictions of the behavior of others than cognitively complex people.
• B) cognitively simple system people tend to stress differences among themselves and others.
• C) a cognitively simple system differentiates highly among persons.
• D) there seems to be an inverse relationship between cognitive complexity and pathology.

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