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Lecture 3. Adlerian Theory Flashcards

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Alfred Adler Birth Order and Nationality

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2nd among 7 children of middle-class Jewish family

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Adler Health Status

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weak and sickly compared to his older brother, and at age 5, almost died of Pneumonia; his poor health and the death of a younger brother motivated him to become a physician.

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Death of Adler’s brother

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His younger brother died in bed next to Adler, but he was neither terrified or guilty, but was challenged to overcome death.

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Relationship with Older Brother

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Had sibling rivalry and unhappy competition with Sigmund, the older brother who became very successful even in adult life, but lesser famous compared to him.

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Relationship with Parents and Siblings

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was more engaged in social relationships with other siblings rather than close attachment to parents.

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What Society did Adler became a president? And what did he presented?

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As the president of Vienna Psychoanalytic Society (1911) he presented his opposition to the strong sexual proclivities of psychoanalysis and insisted the drive for superiority was more of a basic motive than of sexuality.

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After leaving Freud’s circle what did he form?

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Formed Society for Free Psychoanalytic Study, then changed to Society for Individual Psychology

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In individual psychology, what it conveys about each person?

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Each person is an integrated whole, striving to attain future goals and attempting to find meaning in life while working harmoniously with others.

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What does Indiv Psychology presents?

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presents an optimistic view of people while resting heavily on the notion of social interest
Social Interest— feeling of oneness with all humankind.

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Individual Psych believed that

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believed that people are motivated mostly by social influences and by their striving for superiority or success and that people are largely responsible for who they are.

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Present behavior is shaped by and that means?

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present behavior is shaped by people’s view of the future
thus psychologically healthy people are usually aware of what they are doing and why they are doing it.

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6 main tenets of individual psychology

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Striving for success or superiority as one dynamic force behind people’s behavior

Subjective perceptions shape behaviors and personality

Personality is unified and self-consistent

Social interest embody the value of all human activity

Style of life shows the self-consistent personality

Creative power results to the style of life

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What does it mean when people strive for success or superiority?

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People strive for success or superiority as a means of compensation for feelings of inferiority or weakness. (inferiority = insecurities)

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Striving force?

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innate but its nature and direction are due both to feelings of inferiority and to the goal of superiority.

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Without innate movement toward perfection

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Without innate movement toward perfection = children would never feel inferior

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Without feelings of inferiority?

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Without feelings of inferiority, they would never set a goal of superiority or success.

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Goal in Individual Psychology

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provides guidelines for motivation, shaping psychological development and giving it an aim.

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Success in Individual Psychology

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individualized concept and all people formulate their own definition of it.

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Psychologically healthy person?

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seeks success for all humanity

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Psychologically unhealthy person?

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Seeks personal superiority

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Fictional Finalism

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the fictional future goal which a person aspires to or the ‘Guiding self-ideal’.

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How fictional finalism guides our life?

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guides our style of life, gives unity to our personality and motivates us to our final goal.

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In fictional finalism, people are motivated by?

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Thus, people are motivated not by what is true but by their subjective perceptions of what is true

Similar to self-prophecy — acts acc. to what other people say

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Physical Inferiorities

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people develop a fiction or belief system about how to overcome these physical deficiencies and become big, strong and superior.; but even after conquering all these inferiorities, they still act as if they are still small, weak and inferior.

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According to Adler,physical deficiencies provides?

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According to Adler, physical deficiencies provide present motivation for reaching future goals.

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Psychologically healthy person in Physical Inferiorities

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never loses contact in reality

means of living more effective and constructive life

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Psychologically unhealthy person in Physical Inferiorities

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Become ends in themselves, retained even when already ineffective

Fictional life plan becomes a reality

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Two Subjective Perceptions that shape behavior and personality

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Fictional Finalism and Physical Inferiorities

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How each person is unique and indivisible?

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Each person is unique and indivisible; there is a fundamental unity of personality and inconsistent behavior does not exist

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2 concepts in Tenet 3

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Organ Dialect

Conscious & Unconscious

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Organ Dialect

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the disturbance of one part of the body cannot be viewed in isolation, it affects the entire person.

The parts of the body speak for the unexpressive parts of the person.

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Why conscious and unconscious do not have dichotomy?

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as both are cooperating parts of the same unified system.
Conscious → helpful; Unconscious → not helpful.

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what is social interest?

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A gauge to be used in judging the worth of a person, a barometer for determining the usefulness of a life.

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How social interest became an innate need?

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Innate need of all human beings to live in harmony and friendship with others and to aspire for the development of the perfect society.

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4 Types of Person with Social Interest

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Ruling-Dominant, Getting Learning, Avoiding, Socially Useful

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Ruling Dominant Type

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With manipulative, influential and dominant personality

Likely to seek self credit and constantly desire acknowledgement from others

Tend to order people around —believing they are superior

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Getting Learning Type

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Opportunistic person
Takers
People who take advantage of others

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Avoiding Type

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Engage in things that doesn’t require responsibility or demands

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Socially Useful Type

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Doesn’t take interest on situations useful for themselves but also to others

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Style of Life

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flavor of a person’s life; goal, self-concept, feelings for others, and attitude toward the world.

Determines which aspects of life are focused on and how it gives a person individual identity; what is perceived and ignored, specifies a person’s goals and how they are to be attained.

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Style of Life is crsytalized by

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crystalized by age 4 or 5, what lifestyle a child develops, depends on his/her personal circumstances.

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Places people in control of their lives, is

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responsible for their final goal, determines their method of striving for that goal and contributes to the development of social interest.

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The Law of the Low Doorway: Positive and Negative

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If you will not accept the harsh realities in life, you will continue to feel pain
Positive: “Yes, this is difficult but I will do something to overcome this”
Negative: some people need to be hurt for them to realize what’s wrong, while others just receive and receive

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Three Entrances to Mental Life

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Birth Order, First Memories/Early Recollections, Dream Analysis

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3 Entrances of Mental Life Purpose

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To discern the origins of lifestyle and approach to problem solving

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Main factor of Birth Order

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Parenting Style

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First Born Attention to the following baby

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focus of attention until the next child is born and he is ‘dethroned’.
⇾ Now he has to share the attention of the parents

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First Born 2 Positive Traits

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Nurturing and protective of others

Good organizer

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First Born 7 Negative Traits

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Highly anxious
Exaggerated feelings of power
Unconscious hostility
Fights for acceptance
Must always be “right”; others are always “wrong”
Highly critical of others
Uncooperative

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Second Born Main Trait

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extremely ambitious since he is constantly attempting to catch up and surpass the older sibling

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Second Born 3 Positive Traits

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Highly motivated
Cooperative
Moderately competitive

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Second Born 2 Negative Traits

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Highly competitive
Easily discouraged

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Youngest Child 2 Main Traits

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usually spoiled and can never be independent.
⇾ Easily loses courage to succeed by his own effort.

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Youngest Positive Trait

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Realistically ambitious

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Youngest 4 Negative Traits

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Pampered style of life
Dependent on others
Wants to excel in everythin
Unrealistically ambitious

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Only Child Main Trait

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never dethroned but experiences shock when he learns that he cannot remain the center of attention in other

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Only Child Positive Trait

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Socially Mature

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Only Child 4 Nrgative Traits

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Exaggerated feelings of superiority
Love feelings of cooperation
Inflated sense of self
Pampered style of life

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What is First Memories or Early Recollections

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Description of one’s earliest recollections which can give evidence to the origins of one’s lifestyle.

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Dreams Acc. to Adler

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used to provide a way of dealing with the person’s life problems.

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By analyzing how to confront problems and how to plan future events through dream analysis, what happens

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By analyzing how to confront problems and how to plan future events through dream analysis, a great deal could be learned about the person’s style of life.

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Golden rule of dream work in Individual Psychology

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Everything can be different

Any dream interpretation must be tentative and open to reinterpretation.

There is no fixed interpretation of a single dream

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In Psychotherapy, Adlerian theory postulates that?

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Adlerian theory postulates that psychopathology results from lack of courage, exaggerated feelings of inferiority, and underdeveloped social interest

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Everybody can accomplish everything”.

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What people do with what they have is more important with what they have

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In Adler’s psychotherapy he used warmth and humor to?

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to help increase the patient’s courage, self-esteem and social interest.

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In Adler’s psychotherapy, how does he treat children?

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Treats children with audiences of parents, teachers, health professionals to point out that the problems of the children are community problems.

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How Adler handle parents of patients?

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Was careful not to blame parents for a child’s misbehavior but worked to win the parents’ confidence and persuades them to change their attitudes towards a child

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What is Fictional Finalism?

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> the fictional final goal which person aspires to

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Fictional Finalism is also known as?

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guiding self-ideal

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Fictional Finalism purpose

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guides our style of life, gives unity to our personality and motivates us to our future goal

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Physical Inferiorities

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people develop a fiction or belief system about how to overcome these physical deficiencies and become big, strong and superior.; but even after conquering all these inferiorities, they still act as if they are still small, weak and inferior.

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According to Adler, physical deficiencies what?

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provide present motivation for reaching future goals

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