Adler: Individual Psychology

Question 1

Feeling of oneness with all human kind

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Social Interest

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Feelings of Inferiority

Question 3

A feeling of unity with others

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Social Interest

Question 4

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.

Question 5

Psychologically unhealthy individuals strive for

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Personal Superiority

Question 6

Psychologically healthy people seek

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Success for all humanity

Question 7

Dynamic power behind all motivation

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Aggression

Question 8

Will to power or a domination of others

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Masculine Protest

Question 9

People who are motivated by highly developed social interest

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Striving for success

Question 10

Fictional and has no objective existence

Answer 10

Final goal

Question 11

Ability to freely shape behavior and create own personality

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Creative power

Question 12

People strive for superiority or success as a means of

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Compensation for feeling of Inferiority

Question 13

Establish the potentiality

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Heredity

Question 14

Contributes to the development of social interest and courage

Answer 14

Environment

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Personal Superiority

Question 16

Are constant moving force in all behavior

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Inferiority feelings

Question 17

motivated by social interest and the success of all humankind

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striving for success

Question 18

fictions or expectations of the future

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Subjective perceptions

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Fictionalism

Question 20

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

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Teleology

Question 21

considers behavior as springing from a specific case

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causality

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Physical Inferiorities

Question 23

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

Question 24

deficient organ expresses the direction of the individual’s goal

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Organ dialect

Question 25

organ dialect or

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Organ Jargon

Question 26

German term of social feeling/community feeling

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Gemeinschaftsgefuhl

Question 27

the sole criterion of human values

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Social Interest

Question 28

flavor of a person's life

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Style of life

Question 29

three major problems of life

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neighborly love, sexual love, and occupation

Question 30

basic style of life include the:

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Dominant, Getting, Avoiding, and Socially Useful types

Question 31

arrogant and show no concern to others

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Dominant Type

Question 32

always want to take something from others

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getting type

Question 33

avoiding others and withdrawing from them

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avoiding type

Question 34

show concerns for everyone

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socially useful type

Question 35

freedom to create his or her own style of life

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Creative power

Question 36

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

Question 38

people become failures in life because

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they are overconcerned with themselves and care little about others.

Question 39

External factors in Maladjustment

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1. exaggerated physical deficiencies 2. a pampered style of life 3. a neglected style of life

Question 40

enable people to hide their inflated self image and to maintain their current style of life.

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Safeguarding Tendencies

Question 41

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

Answer 41

Safeguarding Tendencies

Question 42

typically expressed in the "yes, but" or "if only" format

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Excuses

Question 43

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

Answer 43

excuses

Question 44

to protect their fragile self esteem

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Aggression

Question 45

Safeguarding through aggression may take form of:

Answer 45

Depreciation, Accusation, Self-accusation

Question 46

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

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Depreciation

Question 47

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

Question 50

modes of safeguarding through withdrawal:

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moving backward, standing still, hesitating, and constructing obstacles

Question 51

same as regression

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Moving backward

Question 52

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

Question 54

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

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constructing obstacles

Question 55

men and women to overemphasize the importance of being manly

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Masculine protest

Question 56

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

Question 59

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

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youngest child

Question 60

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

Question 61

recalled memories

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early recollections

Question 62

cannot foretell the future

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dreams

Question 63

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

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Psychotherapy

Question 64

Concept of Humanity

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Optimism, Social Influences, Free Choice, Teleology and Conscious