Chapter 4 - Adler Flashcards
Aggressive drive
The compulsion to destroy, conquer, and kill
Compensation
A motivation to overcome inferiority, to strive for higher levels of development
Creative power of the self
The ability to create an appropriate style of life
Early recollections
A personality assessment technique in which our earliest memories, whether of real events or fantasies, are assumed to reveal the primary interest of our life
Fictional finalism
The idea that there is an imagined or potential goal that guides our behavior
Individual psychology
Adler’s theory of personality
Individuation
A condition of psychological health resulting from the integration of all conscious and unconscious facets of the personality
Inferiority complex
A condition that develops when a person is unable to compensate for normal inferiority feelings
Inferiority feelings
The normal condition of all people; the source of all human striving
Social interest
Our innate potential to cooperate with other people to achieve personal and societal goals
Striving for superiority
The urge toward perfection or completion that motivates each of us
Style of life
A unique character structure or pattern of personal behaviors and characteristics by which each of use strives for perfection. Basic styles of life include the dominant, getting, avoiding, and socially useful types
Superiority complex
A condition that develops when a personal overcompensates for a normal inferiority feelings
Organic inferiority
Physical aspect of self that is inferior to what is considered normal
Self concept
Who i am
Self ideal
Who i should be
Your image of the world
What i believe about people/the world/nature/humankind
Ethical convictions
This is the code by which i live
Dominant
Will do work but think everyone else is less than them
Trying to rule over people
Little social awareness
Not able to cope with life stressors
Getting
Sit back and have others do for them
Think people owe them and should do things for them
Avoiding
Avoiding any possibility of failure
Satisfied with just getting through
Not able to cope with life stressors
Socially useful
What we want to be —> Ideal
Do for others
Cooperate with others
Become their best so that they are helpful to others
Social interest
Potential cooperate with other people to achieve both personal goals and to help others
Creative self
Perceiving, analyzing, interpreting, and giving meaning to experiences
