Alfred Adler

Question 1

According to Adler, the dynamic force behind people’s behavior is the striving for success or?

Answer 1

Superiority

Question 2

Humans are motivated more by their expectations of the future than by experience of the past; concerned with the future

Answer 2

Fictional Goals

Question 3

Asserts that humans make their own personalities; constructed out of the raw material of hereditary and experience; gives meaning to life; it creates the goal as well as the means to the goal

Answer 3

Creative Self

Question 4

The person perceives, learns and retains what fits his/her style of life, and ignores everything else

Answer 4

Style of Life

Question 5

TRUE OR FALSE:

All of a person’s behavior, according to Adler, springs from his or her style of life

Answer 5

TRUE - style of life is formed very early in childhood, by the age of four or five.

Question 6

Adler suggested that persons try to compensate psychologically for a physical disability and its attendant feeling of inferiority

Answer 6

Organ Inferiority

Question 7

The situations we wish to improve in; the natural-born psychological state of all people; it begins in infancy and continues throughout everyone’s life. Inferiority complexes are the innermost motivator behind a person’s behaviors, thoughts, feelings, and actions.

Answer 7

Inferiority Complex

Question 8

Exemplified by individuals helping society to attain the goal of a perfect society; striving for superiority becomes socialized; the ideal of a perfect society takes the place of a purely personal ambition and selfish gain.

Answer 8

Social Interest

Question 9

[MULTIPLE CHOICE]

According to Adler, these are aimed at the development of feeling of responsibility to the commonwealth

a. Life Tasks
b. Social Cohesion
c. Social Tasks
d. Social Welfare

Answer 9

a. Life Tasks

Question 10

3 major life tasks

Answer 10

a. Love and Marriage tasks
b. Occupational tasks
c. Societal tasks