US 101 P2 Flashcards
____ believed that people create patterns of behaviors to protect their sense of ____ against _____
What is this?
Adler
Self-esteem
Public disgrace
Safeguarding tendencies
Safeguarding tendencies include
Aggression
Excuses
Withdrawal
Most common safeguarding tendency expressed in the “yes but”, or “if only” format
Excuses
Protect a weak but artificially inflated sense of self-worth and deceive people into believing that they are more superior than they really are
Excuses
Use to safeguard a person’s exaggerated superiority complex, protecting their fragile self-esteem
Aggression
The tendency to undervalue other people’s achievements and to overvalue one’s own
Depreciation
The tendency to blame others for one’s failure and to seek revenge thereby safeguarding one’s own self-esteem causing the people around them to suffer more than they do
Accusation
Marked by self-torture and guilt
Self-accusation
Some people use ___ like ___ as means to hurt people who are close to them
Self-accusation
Self torture
Masochism and Suicide
Setting up a distance between themselves and their problems
Withdrawal
Four other forms of safeguarding through withdrawal
Moving backward
Standing still
Hesitating
Constructing obstacles
Psychological reverting to a more secure period of life similar to Freud’s ____
Moving backward
Regression
People do not move in any direction thus they avoid responsibilities
Standing still
People vacillate when faced with difficult problems
Hesitating
Their procrastinations give them the excuse “it’s too late now”. ____ behaviors are attempts to waste time
Hesitating
Compulsive behaviors
By overcoming obstacles, they protect their self-esteem and their prestige
Constructing obstacles
The pyramid of needs by ____
Parts
Maslow
Physiological
Security
Love/belonging
Esteem
Self-actualization
Was a humanistic psychologist who agreed with the main assumption of Maslow, but added that for a person to “___”, they need an environment that provides them with ___
Carl Rogers
Grow
Genuineness
Acceptance
Empathy