Dr. Alfred Adler

Question 1

View of the person

Answer 1

Natural feelings of inferiority that appear very early in life and require compensation thereafter.
He cared a lot for people, did not see them as a collection of ids egos or Freudian drives.
We strive for superiority, personal power and personal superiority

Question 2

All behavior has a social meaning

Answer 2

A group (family) has its own social system including methods of relating and ways of communicating power. His emphasis is psychosocial rather than psychosexual.

Question 3

All behavior has purpose and is goal directed

Answer 3

Behavior is always performed with a purpose (teleological) and that people are always moving toward significant goal that is the key to understanding them.

Question 4

Unity and pattern

Answer 4

People as unified, indivisible wholes, each with a unique pattern of behavior is designed to reach a goal

Question 5

Behaviour is the result of our subjective perceptions

Answer 5

We actually create our script, produce, direct, and act our roles. We develop our own unique perspectives from which we see ourselves in relation to others

Question 6

What happens when person develops well?

Answer 6

They form a strong synthesis of self interest and social interest so that whatever is done for the group is also done for the individual

Question 7

Adler worked as a doctor in the trenches of world war one

Answer 7

True

Question 8

View on humanitarianism

Answer 8

Opposed violence of all forms and promoted social interest in the individual and in the group.
To adler mental health implied socially affirmative action. He also argued that social responsibility was fundamental to the practice of psychology.
Early male activist of women’s rights.

Question 9

War theory

Answer 9

War bases high value on physical strength, and therefore in warlike countries the inequality of women is greater.
Adler had a strong pursuit of social equality and acceptance of differences predate multiculturalism

Question 10

Basic concepts

Answer 10

It’s not what your born with but what you do with it.

There are unavoidable tasks each much address in life: society, work, and love.

Question 11

Society

Answer 11

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Question 12

Work

Answer 12

Must show an ability to be interested in work. Here social feeling takes the form of cooperative activity for the benefit of others. Individuals who perform useful work not only provide themselves with a livelihood but obtain a sense of what society values, for example, industry over laziness. And it is through work that individuals assist in the progress of the developing community

Question 13

Love

Answer 13

The ability to be more concerned for a partner than for oneself. Prerequisite for love include childhood preparation for a two-person task, continuing consciousness of equal worth of both partners, and the capacity for mutual devotion

Question 14

Law of movement

Answer 14

The direction taken by the person that originates in his or her own ability to exercise free choice in fully exploiting personal capabilities and resources

Question 15

Style of life

Answer 15

We create our own personality.

Question 16

Birth order

Answer 16

Significant differences between first born children and later born children

Question 17

Determinism

Answer 17

The present determines the past.
Current style of life determines the selection of past events that best represents its contemporary condition
May recall only certain aspects of an early event, neglect others, embellish some details

Question 18

Adlerian therapy

Answer 18

1) social context in which a behavior occurs must be considered
2) persons are best viewed as wholes rather than parts interacting with one another (the holistic appraoch)