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CHAPTER 3: Alfred Adler "Individual Psychology" Flashcards

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He stressed that one Individual is unique from one another.

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Individual Psychology

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When is Alfred Adler born?

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February 7, 1870

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Adler’s parents are:

Mother____
Father____

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Mother Pauline
Father Leopold

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This is the reason why Adler was motivated to become a physician.

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the death of his younger brother Rudolf

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He is interested in ______ as a pivotal role in childhood development.

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Adler:

social relationships

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Describe the overview of Individual Psychology

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  1. Motivated mostly by social influence and striving for superiority/ success.
  2. A person is responsible for who they are.
  3. Influence of future perspective
  4. Psychologically healthy individuals are aware of what they are doing and why they are doing it.
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Adler is married to ____ who is a feminist.

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Raissa Epstein

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The first Tenent of Adlerian Theory?

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Striving for Success or Superiority

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Subtopics under the 1st Tenent of Adlerian Theory

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The Final Goal
Striving Force as Compensation
Striving for Personal Superiority
Striving for Success

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It is described as fictional and has no objective existence

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Final Goal

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Self-centredness; is seen in individuals who manipulate social interactions for personal benefit.

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Striving for Personal Superiority

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helping others without a personal payoff

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Striving for Success

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The second Tenent of Adlerian Theory?

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Subjective Perceptions

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Expectation of the future

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Fictionalism

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Subtopics under the 2nd Tenent of Adlerian Theory

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Fictionalism and Physical Inferiorities

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The third Tenent of Adlerian Theory?

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Unity and Self-Consistency of Personality

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Subtopics under the 3rd Tenent of Adlerian Theory

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Organ Dialect
Conscious and Unconscious

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“The disturbance of one part of the body is not isolation, but rather affects the entire person”.

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Organ Dialect

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The fourth Tenent of Adlerian Theory?

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Social Interest

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Described as oneness with all humanity

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Social Interest

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What does Gemeinschaftsgefühl mean?

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social feeling or community feeling

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“determining our future”

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Style of Life

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“freely choose our course of action”

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Creative Power

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The Fifth Tenent of Adlerian Theory?

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Style of Life

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The Sixth Tenent of Adlerian Theory?
Creative Power
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The Four (4) Major Lifestyle Types in Individual Psychology
Ruling Type Getting Type Avoiding Type Socially useful type
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Style of Life that is Dominant and Aggressive
Ruling type
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Style of Life that depend their decisions on others
Getting type
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Style of Life that hates confrontations
Avoiding type
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Style of Life in which individuals possessed adequate but not overbearing social interest and energy.
Socially useful type
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Causes of Inferiority Complex
Organic Inferiority Spoiling Neglecting
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It shields a person's fragile self-esteem from public disgrace
Safeguarding Tendencies
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Types of Safeguarding Tendencies
Excuses Aggression Withdrawal
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Undervalue other's achievements and overvalue one's own
Depreciation
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Blame others for one's failure to seek revenge
Accusation
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Use self-torture to hurt people close to them
Self-Accusation
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Halt personality development by avoiding life difficulties
Withdrawal
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Types of Withdrawal Safeguarding Tendencies
Moving Backward Standing Still Hesitating Constructing Obstacles
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Reverting to a safe period of life
Moving Backward
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Avoiding responsibilities to avoid failure
Standing Still
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Procrastinating and giving excuses when faced with difficulties
Hesitating
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Building barriers to overcome them and protect self-esteem.
Constructing Obstacles
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"desirability of being manly"
Masculine Protest
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Likely to have strong feelings of power and superiority, to be overprotective, and to have more than their share of anxiety.
Firstborns
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Influenced by the perception of older siblings, competitiveness to challenge authority.
Second born children
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Likely to be pampered and lacks independence.
Youngest children
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They tend to be the mature ones in the Family Constellation
Only child
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Holland's Six Carrer Types
Realistic Investigative Artistic Social Enterprising Conventional
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likes to work with animals, tools, or machines
Realistic
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likes to study and solve math and science
Investigative
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like to do creative activities like art and music
Artistic
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likes to do things to help people
Social
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likes to lead and persuade people
Enterprising
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likes to work with numbers, records, and machines
Conventional
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The year of departure of Adler from the Psychoanalytic Society
1911
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In ____ , Adler became a charter member of Freud's organization.
1902
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It unifies personality and makes all behavior meaningful.
The Final Goal
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"subjective view of the world not reality shapes their behavior"
Subjective Perceptions
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Adler emphasized ______ over causality or explanations of behavior in terms of future goals rather than past causes.
teleology
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Style of Life is a pattern that is relatively well set by at what age?
4 or 5 years of age

Theories of Personality (7 decks)

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