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Adler: Individual Psychology Flashcards

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Feeling of oneness with all human kind

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Social Interest

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People are born with weak, inferior bodies - a condition that leads to

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Feelings of Inferiority

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A feeling of unity with others

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Social Interest

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Main tenets of Adlerian Theory

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  1. The one dynamic force behind people’s behavior is the striving for success or superiority.
  2. People’s subjective perceptions shape their behavior and personality.
  3. Personality is unified and self consistent.
  4. The value of all human activity must be seen from the view point of social interest.
  5. The self-consistent personality structure develops into a person’s style of life.
  6. Style of life is molded by people’s creative power.
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Psychologically unhealthy individuals strive for

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Personal Superiority

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Psychologically healthy people seek

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Success for all humanity

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Dynamic power behind all motivation

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Aggression

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Will to power or a domination of others

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Masculine Protest

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People who are motivated by highly developed social interest

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Striving for success

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Fictional and has no objective existence

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Final goal

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Ability to freely shape behavior and create own personality

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Creative power

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People strive for superiority or success as a means of

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Compensation for feeling of Inferiority

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Establish the potentiality

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Heredity

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Contributes to the development of social interest and courage

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Environment

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some people strive for superiority with little or no concern for others

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Personal Superiority

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Are constant moving force in all behavior

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Inferiority feelings

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motivated by social interest and the success of all humankind

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striving for success

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fictions or expectations of the future

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Subjective perceptions

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a goal we created early in life and may not clearly understand

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Fictionalism

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is an explanation of behavior in term of its final purpose or aim

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Teleology

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considers behavior as springing from a specific case

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causality

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develop a fiction or belief system about how to overcome physical deficiencies and become big, strong, and superior.

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Physical Inferiorities

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thoughts, feelings, and actions are all directed toward a single goal and serve a single purpose

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Unity and Self-Consistency of Personality

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deficient organ expresses the direction of the individual’s goal

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Organ dialect

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organ dialect or

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Organ Jargon

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German term of social feeling/community feeling

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Gemeinschaftsgefuhl

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the sole criterion of human values

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Social Interest

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flavor of a person’s life

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Style of life

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three major problems of life

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neighborly love, sexual love, and occupation

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basic style of life include the:

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Dominant, Getting, Avoiding, and Socially Useful types

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arrogant and show no concern to others

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Dominant Type

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always want to take something from others

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getting type

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avoiding others and withdrawing from them

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avoiding type

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show concerns for everyone

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socially useful type

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freedom to create his or her own style of life

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Creative power

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the one factor underlying all types of maladjustments is

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underdeveloped social interest

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neurotics tend to

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  1. set their goals too high
  2. live in their own private world
  3. have a rigid and dogmatic style of life
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people become failures in life because

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they are overconcerned with themselves and care little about others.

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External factors in Maladjustment

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  1. exaggerated physical deficiencies
  2. a pampered style of life
  3. a neglected style of life
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enable people to hide their inflated self image and to maintain their current style of life.

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Safeguarding Tendencies

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largely conscious and shield a person’s fragile self-esteem from public disgrace

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Safeguarding Tendencies

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typically expressed in the “yes, but” or “if only” format

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Excuses

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protect a weak sense of self-worth and deceive people into believing that they are more superior than they really are.

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excuses

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to protect their fragile self esteem

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Aggression

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Safeguarding through aggression may take form of:

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Depreciation, Accusation, Self-accusation

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tendency to undervalue other people’s achievements and over value one’s own.

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Depreciation

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tendency to blame others for one’s failures and to seek revenge

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Accusation

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marked by self torture and guilt

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self-accusation

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people run away from difficulties

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Withdrawal

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modes of safeguarding through withdrawal:

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moving backward, standing still, hesitating, and constructing obstacles

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same as regression

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Moving backward

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avoiding responsibilities by ensuring themselves against any threat of failure

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Standing still

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they procrastinate

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hesitating

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Some people build a straw house to show that they can knock it down.

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constructing obstacles

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men and women to overemphasize the importance of being manly

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Masculine protest

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Applications of Individual Psychology

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Family Constellation, early recollections, dreams, and psychotherapy

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feeling of power and superiority, high anxiety, and overprotective tendencies

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First born

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personality are shaped by their perception of the older child’s attitude toward them

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2nd born/middle child

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most pampered and run a high risk of being a problem children

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youngest child

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unique position of competing against father and mother often develop an exaggerated sense of superiority and an inflated self-concept

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Only children

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recalled memories

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early recollections

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cannot foretell the future

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dreams

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to enhance courage, lessen feelings of inferiority, and encourage social interest

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Psychotherapy

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Concept of Humanity

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Optimism, Social Influences, Free Choice, Teleology and Conscious

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