Chapter Four Flashcards
Inferiority feelings
The normal condition of all people
The source of all human striving
Individual psychology
Adler’s theory of personality
Compensation
A motivation to overcome inferiority, to strive for higher levels of development
-many people with physical disabilities strive to compensate for their weaknesses
Inferiority complex
A condition that develops when a person is unable to compensate for normal inferiority feelings
Superiority complex
A condition that develops when a person overcompensated for normal inferiority feelings
Striving for superiority
The urge toward perfection or completion that motivates each of us
Fictional finalism
The idea that there is an imagined or potential goal that guides our behavior
Style of life
A unique character structure or pattern of personal behaviors and characteristics by which each of us strives for perfection.
Basic styles of life include dominant, getting, avoiding, and socially useful types
Creative power of the self
The ability to create an appropriate style of life
Social interest
Our innate potential to cooperate with other people to achieve personal and societal goals
One’s order of birth within a family- being older or younger than one’s siblings- creates different conditions of childhood that can affect…?
Personality
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
Our earliest memories of childhood help reveal our..?
Lifestyle
