INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGY Flashcards
Refers to that urge in human nature to adapt oneself to the conditions of the social environment.
Social Interest
🌿 The goal that the individual pursue is the decisive factor and he called this concept of goal orientation ____________
The principle of finalism
Are an individual’s group’s interpretations of the events of the world
Fiction
🌿People create fictions or guiding ideas and the behave as if their goals was true.
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The ultimate fictional finalism for which all human being strive and it gives unity and coherence to the personality.
The goal of Superiority
Primary motivating force if adlers theory.
Aggression
Primary Drive
“will to power”
🌿The drive for superiority involves involves the desire to be competent and effective in whatever one strives to do.
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Compensation for one’s inferiorities
The masculine protest
Coping up to the environment and develop superiority in a unique way.
The style of life
Acts in parts as a perceptual filter,influencing the ways in which we view the world.
The syle of life
Combination of two factors :
- The inner goal orientation of the individual with its particular fictional finalisms.
- The forces of the environment that assist,impede, or alter the direction of the individual.
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4 Primary types of style
- The ruling type (aggresive,hve little social interest)
- The getting type (people who take rather than give)
- The avoiding type (escapes life problems)
- The socially useful type (great deal of social interest and activity)
Refer to one’s position within the family in terms if birth order among siblings and the presence or absence of parents and other caregivers
Family Constellation
Climax of Adler’s theory
The Creative Self
