Chapter 4

Question 1

What did Alder focus his studies on?

Answer 1

Individual Psychology

Question 2

What means severe socialization and environmental demands can produce a sense of inferiority that would be avoided, given the same physical condition, in a more benign condition?

Answer 2

Organ Inferiority

Question 3

What means seeking the privilege associated with the male gender role? Males and Females are motivated by this

Answer 3

Masculine Protest

Question 4

What is inherent motivation toward personal growth?

Answer 4

Perfection Striving

Question 5

What is stagnation of growth in which difficulties seem too immense to be overcome? Feeling one will never be intelligent enough.

Answer 5

Inferiority Complex

Question 6

What is the neurotic belief that one is better than others?

Answer 6

Superiority Complex

Question 7

What is compensation for feelings of inferiority?

Answer 7

Creative Self

Question 8

What is a person’s image of the goal of his or her striving?

Answer 8

Fictional Finalism

Question 9

What is a person’s consistent way of striving, established by the age of 4/5?

Answer 9

Style of Life

Question 10

What are mistaken styles of life?

Answer 10

Ruling Type (Depreciation Complex), Getting Type, and Avoiding Type

Question 11

What is the healthy style of life in which a person acts in ways beneficial to others and has a well developed sense of social interest?

Answer 11

Socially Useful Type

Question 12

What term describes parents help or hinder the development of a healthy lifestyle to compensate for this fundamental felt minus?

Answer 12

Parental Behavior

Question 13

What is the configuration of family members, including the number and birth order siblings?

Answer 13

Family Constellation

Question 14

What child derives from overindulgence that leads to expectations that the world cannot meet?

Answer 14

The Pampered Child

Question 15

What child can become overly dependent on others for recognition and nurturance?

Answer 15

The Neglected Child

Question 16

What program’s major goal is to teach parents to understand the reasons for their children’s misbehavior so they can more effectively influence it?

Answer 16

Parenting Training Programs

Question 17

What is the influence of number, age, and sex of sibling on personality development?

Answer 17

Family Constellation

Question 18

Who experiences a sense of “dethronement” when the next child is born? They overvalue authority and hold conservative values.

Answer 18

The first child

Question 19

Who is the most favorable and may feel envious or slighted? They also may feel rebellious or revolutionary

Answer 19

The second born child

Question 20

Who is the problem child and risks being pampered? This child lacks incentive to develop independence. They can be successful if they find an area of effort not already claimed by another family member.

Answer 20

The youngest child

Question 21

Who shows a similar personality to the first born child and has constant parental attention?

Answer 21

The only child

Question 22

What shows weak and inconsistent effects, which vary depending on other factors (such as culture)?

Answer 22

Research on birth order

Question 23

What are the three tasks of life?

Answer 23

Work, love, social interaction (influences other two life tasks)

Question 24

According to Adler, what aims to change thinking, emotion, and behavior?

Answer 24

Therapy