Adler: Individual Psychology Flashcards
The sole dynamic force behind people’s actions
Striving for success or superiority
It unifies personality and makes all behavior meaningful
Final goal
Because people are born with small, inferior bodies, they feel inferior and attempt to overcome these feelings through their natural tendency to move toward ___
Completion
The striving force can take one of two courses:
Personal gain (superiority) or community benefit (success)
Psychologically unhealthy individuals strive for ___ with little concern for other people
Personal superiority
Psychologically healthy people strive for ___, but they do so without losing their personal identity
The success of all humanity
People’s ___, not reality shapes their behavior.
Subjective perceptions
___ are people’s expectations of the future; guide behavior, because people act as if these are true
Fictions
Stimulate subjective feelings of inferiority and move people toward perfection or completion
Organ inferiorities
People often use a physical disorder to express style of life, a condition Adler called ___
Organ dialect
___ and ___ are unified and operate to achieve a single goal
Conscious and unconscious processes
The part of our goal that we do not clearly understood is ___
Unconscious
The part of our goal that we fail to fully comprehend is
Conscious
Human behavior has value to the extent that it is motivated by ___, that is, a feeling of oneness with all of humanity
Social interest
The manner of a person’s striving is called ___, a pattern that is relatively well set by 4 or 5 years of age
Style of life
