Exam 2 PPT Notes Flashcards
Alfred Adler: Humanistic Theorist:
- emphasis on impact of being … living in a … on development
- one of theorists that Freud hoped would assume his position as …
- believes each person strives for …, …, …
social creature;
social world;
leader of analytic theory;
superiority;
competence;
mastery of life
Alfred Adler: Humanistic Theorist:
- childhood - marked by …, awareness of … and … of his ….
illness;
death;
intense jealousy;
older brother
Alfred Adler: Humanistic Theorist:
- had feelings of …
- compensaated for … through …
inferiority;
weaknesses;
persistence
Alfred Adler: Humanistic Theorist:
- differences with Freud:
- drives:
- Freud: …
- Adler: …
- Ego:
- Freud: Ego … to Id, …
- Adler: Ego is … of id, …
- drives:
sex;
aggression;
subservient;
fueled by id;
independent of id;
conscious striving to be someone
Alfred Adler: Humanistic Theorist:
- Differences with Freud:
- Oedipal Issues:
- Freud: child’s attempt to …
- Adler: …, …, attain …
- Oedipal Issues:
possess mother;
compete with Father;
equal strength;
superiority of father
Alfred Adler: Humanistic Theorist:
- Meaning of Dreams:
- Freud: …
- Adler: dreamer’s attempt to … that they are … or … to do during conscious life
disguised wish fulfillments;
resolve problems;
unwilling;
not able
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- Holism:
- Adler viewed man as a …, a … whole that functions as an … system, not as a collection of … and … as Freud suggests
unit;
self-conscious;
open;
drives;
instincts
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- teleology:
- the belief that individuals are guided not only by … but that they also move toward certain goals of …
- believed that standing before the unknown, each person strives to become more … and is motivated by one dynamic force - the … for …
mechanical forces;
self-realization;
perfect;
upward striving;
completion
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- Striving for … - desire we all have to …, to realize our …
superiority;
fulfill our potential;
ideals
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- striving for superiority
- the basic dynamic force between all human activity - striving from a feeling of … to one of …
- Adler believed that … are the source of all human striving. All individual progress, growth and development result from the attempt to …
- everyone is trying to overcome something that is … them from becoming what they want to become
inferiority;
superiority;
inferiority feelings;
compensate for one’s inferiorities;
hampering
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- masculine protest - a term introduced by Alfred Adler to denote a cluster of personality traits in either sex arising as … for feelings of … and …
- Adler used the term more specifically to denote the rejection by women of the … in favor of more … And one big reason that women and men reject roles is bc they want to … and feel more … in a situation
- attempt by men and women to … and …
overcompensations;
inferiority;
rejection of the feminine role;
traditional feminine roles;
masculine ones;
gain power;
dominant;
demolish dependency;
assert autonomy
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- social interest - social interest is the inevitable compensation for all the … of human beings. social interest is a …; an … feeling of … and a genuine interest in the … and …
natural weaknesses;
way of life;
optimistic;
confidence in oneself;
welfare;
well-being of others
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- social interest
- human beings are clearly .., needing a much longer period of … before maturity than any animal
- as long as the feeling of inferiority is …, a person will always strive to be worthwhile and … in life
- this gives us the feeling of being … which originates from …
innately social;
dependence upon others;
not too great;
useful;
valuable;
contribution to the common welfare
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- fictional finalism: the belief that human beings are more strongly motivated by the … and … - … or … - that they create for themselves and more influenced by …
goals;
ideals;
realizable;
unattainable;
future possibilities
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- fictional finalism:
- people live by many … that have no relation to … and therefore cannot be … and … (e.g. all men are created equal)
fictional ideals;
reality;
tested;
confirmed
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- fictional finalism:
- these fictions may help a person feel … and justify the rightness of their …, although at the same time cause others … and … and …
powerful;
selfish choices;
harm;
injustice;
destroy relationships
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- Adler concluded that people are motivated more by their … than they are by …
- for example, if a person believes that there is heaven for those who are good and hell for those who are bad, it will probably affect …
expectations of the future;
the past;
how that person lives
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- Neurotics:
- …, …, unable to …
self-absorbed;
self-involved;
abandon fictional goals
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- neurotics:
- the neurotic … for feeling … to …
- points to his symptom to justify … (e.g. overindulged child may become …, neglected child may seek…)
- the neurotic … for feeling … to …
overcompensates;
insecure;
protect self-esteem;
lack of social interest;
self-centered;
revenge against society
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- Neurotic safeguards:
- …, …, and … are three common safeguarding tendencies, eaach designed to protect a person’s … and to maintain a fictional, elevated feeling of …
excuses;
aggression;
withdrawal;
present style of life;
self-importaance
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- neurotic safeguards:
- humans basically meet three types of threats, which they want to be protected from:
- …, … and …
- humans basically meet three types of threats, which they want to be protected from:
physical harm;
social threat;
loss of self-esteem
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- neurotic safeguards:
- techniques applied by individuals in order to protect themselves from these threats
- 3 categories of neurotic safeguards:
- …/…
- …
- …/…
excuses/rationalizations;
aggression;
withdrawal/distancing
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- excuses/rationalizations:
- the person expresses their intention to do …, and then explains …
- excuses help the person to … by …
what would please others;
why they cannot do it;
protect their self-esteem;
shifting the blame of their shortcomings
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- excuses/rationalizations:
- lack of responsibility for one’s actions limits a person from … as the excuses one makes offer him or her …
flourishing in life;
comfort in failure
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- Aggression: Adler divides aggression into …, … and …
depreciation;
accusation;
self-accusation
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- aggression:
- depreciation: person’s aim is … or … to feel …
putting down others;
exaggerating one’s achievements;
superior
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- aggression:
- accusation: person … and is accompanied by … toward those that have …
shifts blame to others;
revenge;
wronged the person
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- aggression:
- self-accusation:
- the person uses feelings of … to make others … and consequently, protect their …
- self-accusation:
guilt;
suffer;
inflated sense of self
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- withdrawal/distancing: inability to … and …
- this form of safeguarding tendency leads to stalling of one’s … such that, a person does not grow skills that allow him/her to … and …
face one’s problems;
running away from them;
character development;
face life’s obstacles;
disappointments
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- The creative self- the concept of the creative self places the responsibility for … into …
- Adler viewed the individual as …, where the goal is to show the person(s) that they cannot … or … for his current condition
the individual’s personality;
their own hands;
responsible for themselves;
blame others;
uncontrollable forces
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- style of life: describes the dynamics of the …
- it reflects the individual’s …, … and … way of responding to (or avoiding) the main tasks of living: …, … and …
personality;
unique;
unconscious;
repetitive;
friendship;
love;
work
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- Birth order - one of the pioneers in this area
- Alfred posited birth order as one of the major childhood … from which the individual …
- there are potentially favorable/unfavorable outcomes from each birth order place
social influences;
creates a style of life
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- birth order:
- firstborn/oldest: can feel …; …
- favorable outcome: feel …, …
- unfavorable outcome: …, overly …
- firstborn/oldest: can feel …; …
dethroned;
inferior to younger child;
responsibility;
take care of others;
insecure;
reliant on rules
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- birth order:
- firstborns are believed to be more … They are viewed as … who … and expect the same from others
- they …
- firstborns are believed to be more … They are viewed as … who … and expect the same from others
conservative;
leaders;
follow rules;
submit to authority
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- they are often more … than other birth order positions and also more …
- Adler suggested that firstborns tend to be more motivated to .. than their younger siblings. They work hard to … and keep their …
- They are usually good at … and behaving in … ways
ambitious;
conforming;
achieve;
stay ahead;
special place;
pleasing adults;
socially appropriate
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- middle child- has a … in the older child, must … from the beginning. Doesn’t realize until later that the older child was … before
model;
share attention;
alone
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- middle child:
- favorable outcome: be … want to be … as the older child. strong …
- unfavorable outcome: … and … Permanent tendency to try to … Difficulty in role of …
ambitious;
at least as good;
social interest;
rebellious;
envious;
surpass others;
follower
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- the middle child is considered more … and more likely to …
- they often have a more difficult time finding their place of … in the family
- bc of their middle position they are often the … in the family and become …
rebellious;
challenge authority;
significance;
peacemakers;
experts at negotiation
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- middle children learn to be … bc they have to keep up with their older sibling while trying to …
- Adler believed the middle child was particularly at risk for becoming … The second child must find a way to measure up to the …
competitive;
stay ahead of younger siblings;
discouraged;
accomplishments of the firstborn
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- youngest child: receives great deal of …
- favorable: much .. Many chances to …
- unfavorable: feel …
attention;
stimulation;
compete;
inferior to everyone
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- youngest siblings are often viewed as …, …, … and …
pampered;
dependent;
immature;
irresponsible
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- Youngest siblings tend to be more … and usually get the …
- others often …
- they learn to use this … and often use … and … to get people to …
sociable;
most attention;
do things for them;
to their advantage;
charm;
manipulation;
do things for them
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- Only child: gets …, often …, may compete with …
undivided attention;
pampered;
same-sex parent
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- Adler described only children as often being the … and striving for attention from … more than …
- only children are often … and have a more difficult time …, especially in …
center of attention;
adults;
peers;
leaders;
going along with others;
groups of their peers
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- only children typically carry feelings of …
- a typical characteristic of an only child is the … that results from the extreme amount of … they receive growing up
entitlement;
carefulness;
attention
Karen Horney:
- studied … and taught …
- founded …
- important contributions
- … and …
Freud’s work;
psychoanalysis;
American Institute for Psychoanalysis;
neurosis;
feminine psych
Karen Horney:
- introduced the concept of …
- men envy women’s ability to … and …
womb envy;
bear;
nurse children
Karen Horney:
- womb envy
- men compensate their inability to have children through …
- in a society where men and women are free to become whatever they desire girls would not want … or vice versa
achievement in other domains;
to be boys
Karen Horney:
- Karen Horney rejected Freud’s emphasis on … of personality development. She argued that the differences Freud saw between the personalities of men and women were more likely the result of … than …
instinctual causes;
social factors;
inherited predispositions
Karen Horney:
- Horney maintained that neurotic behavior is the result of … developed in … to …
interpersonal styles;
childhood;
overcome anxiety
Karen Horney:
- she identified three neurotic styles, which she called …, … and …
moving toward people;
moving against people;
moving away from people
Karen Horney:
- neurotic - people who are trapped in a …
- prevents people from developing the … they … crave
self-defeating interpersonal style;
social contact;
unconsciously
Karen Horney:
- … is a defense mechanism to ward off feelings of anxiety
- arises due to … during …
- interaction styles adopted by neurotics to avoid …
destructive interpersonal style;
disturbed interpersonal relationships;
childhood;
anxiety-provoking experiences
Karen Horney:
- moving toward people - some children deal with anxiety by … They become …, compulsively seeking … and … from their parents and caregivers
emphasizing their helplessness;
dependent on others;
affection;
acceptance
Karen Horney:
- moving against people - one way to handle anxiety is to cling to others, another is to … Some children find … and … are the best way to deal with a …
fight;
aggressiveness;
hostility;
poor home environment
Karen Horney:
- moving away from people - some children adopt a third strategy to deal with their anxiety. Instead of interacting with others in a … or … manner, the child may simply … Who needs them? The desire for … and … can become intense
dependent;
hostile;
tune out the world;
privacy;
self-sufficiency
Karen Horney:
- the childhood need for … and …
- she lived from 1885 - 1952
- …: the foundation of neurosis
- neurotic needs
- …
safety;
security;
basic anxiety;
idealized self image