A Manual for Repertory Grid Technique
Chapter One
THE BASIS OF REPERTORY
GRID TECHNIQUE
A scientist's inventions assist him in two ways: they tell him what to expect and
they help him to see it when it happens. Those that tell him what to expect are
theoretical inventions and those that enable him to observe outcomes are
instrumental inventions. The two types are never wholly independent of each
other, and they usually stem from the same assumptions. This is unavoidable.
Moreover, without his inventions, both theoretical and instrumental, man would
be both disoriented and blind. He would not know where to look or how to see.
(Kelly, 1969a, p.94)
GRIDS: WHAT ARE THEY?
George Kelly, physicist, mathematician and would-be engineer, loved
mathematics. He regarded mathematics as 'the purest form of construing'
(Hinkle, 1970). It would therefore have been surprising if he had not brought
mathematics into his psychological theory in some form or other. He chose to
do this by creating the repertory grid. He ... read full excerpt from A Manual for Repertory Grid Technique ebook
