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Adler (E2) Flashcards

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What was the purpose of the “Society for Individual Psychology”

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Whole person

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What are the basic 5 Adlerian Assumptions?

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  1. All behavior has a social meaning
  2. All behavior has a purpose and is goal directed
  3. Behavior represents unity and has a pattern
  4. Behavior is designed to overcome feelings of inferiority and move towards superiority
  5. Behavior is the result of our subjective perceptions
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What’s the fundamental human motive?

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  1. Search for success
  2. Superiority
  3. Freedom from helplessness
  4. Escape from fear
  5. Perfection & personal completeness
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What did Adler focus on?

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The striving to compensate for one’s own PERCEIVED inferiorities, for one’s enforces states of helplessness

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Def of inferiority complex

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Overcome by a feeling of lack of worth which leads to the impossibility for self improvement

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Def of superiority complex

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Behave arrogantly and/or exaggerate their achievements

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What does felt minus and felt plus mean?

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Felt-minus: inferiority
Felt-plus: superiority

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What is organ inferiority?

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  1. ALL people succumb to “disease” in the most poorly developed organ
  2. Early stages is more biological but later more subjective
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What is aggressive drive?

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  1. People develop a hostile reaction to their perceived helplessness (ie. baby first cry)
  2. Aggression may be expressed outright (fighting) or transformed (competition)
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What is masculine protest?

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  1. Masculinity implies greater competence or superiority
  2. Marks shift from biology to psychology
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What is Superiority Striving and Perfection Striving

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  1. Masculine protest leads to “mask” of compensatory traits designed to spark self-improvement
  2. People create “fictional goals” and strive to attain them (NOT perfectionism)
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What are the 3 Tasks of life

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  1. Societal Tasks
  2. Work Tasks
  3. Love
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What is style of life?

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  1. Ind. attitude towards society, work, and love
  2. Begins as a compensatory process
  3. Law of movement: direction taken by a person that originates from free choice
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3 Mistaken Styles of life

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  1. Ruling: dominate others; confront problems in a selfish way; generally vain and competitive
  2. Getting: dependent; adopt passive attitude towards others; more likely to be depressed
  3. Avoiding: tend to isolate themselves; seem “cold”; hide subtle and fragile superiority belief
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What is the appropriate style of life

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Socially useful type: act in a way that benefits others

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What are early recollections used for?

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  1. Assess people’s lifestyles
  2. first memory remains because it has been thought about repeatedly during life. It is subjectively important to that person
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How does family impact personality development?

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  1. Mother: greatest influence and guides development of social interest
  2. Father: 2nd greatest influence who provides encouragement to pursue interests
  3. Birth order: Family size/sex of siblings cause ind. differences
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What is some advice Adler would give to parents?

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  1. Encourage rather than punish
  2. Be firm, but don’t dominate
  3. Show respect to child
  4. Emphasize cooperations
  5. Don’t pamper child
  6. Don’t struggle for power with child
  7. Don’t show excessive sympathy
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Adlers hypothesis: first born

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Don’t do well with ‘dethronement”
- potentially act antagonistically
- will “seek others”

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Adlers hypothesis: second born

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Stimulated to higher achievement via competition with older siblings
- most likely to be successful
- isolate themselves in pursuit of success

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Adlers hypothesis: later born

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Tend to be pampered/spoiled
- more likely to be “getting type”
- expect over indulgence from others

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Adlers hypothesis: only children

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Exaggerated sense of self-importance
- must be center of attention

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Stages of Adlerian therapy

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  1. Empathy and relationship
  2. Information gathering
  3. Clarification
  4. Encouragement
  5. Interpretation and Recognition
  6. Knowing
  7. Emotional Breakthrough
  8. Doing Differently
  9. Reinforcement
  10. Social Interest
  11. Goal Redirection
  12. Support and Launching
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What is guided self-ideal

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  1. Subjective and personally meaningful
  2. Created by the individual to navigate through life’s obstacles
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