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CHAPTER 3: Alfred Adler "Individual Psychology" Flashcards

1
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He stressed that one Individual is unique from one another.

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Individual Psychology

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2
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When is Alfred Adler born?

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February 7, 1870

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3
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Adler’s parents are:

Mother____
Father____

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Mother Pauline
Father Leopold

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4
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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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5
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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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7
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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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10
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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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12
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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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14
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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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18
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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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20
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Described as oneness with all humanity

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Social Interest

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21
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What does Gemeinschaftsgefühl mean?

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social feeling or community feeling

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22
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“determining our future”

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Style of Life

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23
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“freely choose our course of action”

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Creative Power

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24
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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?

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Creative Power

26
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The Four (4) Major Lifestyle Types in Individual Psychology

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Ruling Type
Getting Type
Avoiding Type
Socially useful type

27
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Style of Life that is Dominant and Aggressive

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Ruling type

28
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Style of Life that depend their decisions on others

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Getting type

29
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Style of Life that hates confrontations

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Avoiding type

30
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Style of Life in which individuals possessed adequate but not overbearing social interest and energy.

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Socially useful type

31
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Causes of Inferiority Complex

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Organic Inferiority
Spoiling
Neglecting

32
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It shields a person’s fragile self-esteem from public disgrace

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Safeguarding Tendencies

33
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Types of Safeguarding Tendencies

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Excuses
Aggression
Withdrawal

34
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Undervalue other’s achievements and overvalue one’s own

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Depreciation

35
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Blame others for one’s failure to seek revenge

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Accusation

36
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Use self-torture to hurt people close to them

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Self-Accusation

37
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Halt personality development by avoiding life difficulties

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Withdrawal

38
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Types of Withdrawal Safeguarding Tendencies

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Moving Backward
Standing Still
Hesitating
Constructing Obstacles

39
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Reverting to a safe period of life

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Moving Backward

40
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Avoiding responsibilities to avoid failure

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Standing Still

41
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Procrastinating and giving excuses when faced with difficulties

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Hesitating

42
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Building barriers to overcome them and protect self-esteem.

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Constructing Obstacles

43
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“desirability of being manly”

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Masculine Protest

44
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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.

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Firstborns

45
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Influenced by the perception of older siblings, competitiveness to challenge authority.

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Second born children

46
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Likely to be pampered and lacks independence.

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Youngest children

47
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They tend to be the mature ones in the Family Constellation

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Only child

48
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Holland’s Six Carrer Types

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Realistic
Investigative
Artistic
Social
Enterprising
Conventional

49
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likes to work with animals, tools, or machines

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Realistic

50
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likes to study and solve math and science

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Investigative

51
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like to do creative activities like art and music

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Artistic

52
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likes to do things to help people

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Social

53
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likes to lead and persuade people

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Enterprising

54
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likes to work with numbers, records, and machines

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Conventional

55
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The year of departure of Adler from the Psychoanalytic Society

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1911

56
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In ____ , Adler became a charter member of Freud’s organization.

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1902

57
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It unifies personality and makes all behavior meaningful.

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The Final Goal

58
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“subjective view of the world not reality shapes their behavior”

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Subjective Perceptions

59
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Adler emphasized ______ over causality or explanations of behavior in terms of future goals rather than past causes.

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teleology

60
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Style of Life is a pattern that is relatively well set by at what age?

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4 or 5 years of age

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