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Who is the founder of Individual Psychology?

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Alfred Adler

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It is a feeling of oneness with other humankind

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Social Interest

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Differences of Individual Psychology to Psychoanalytic

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  1. Motivated by social influences and Striving for superiority
  2. Responsible for who they are
  3. Present behavior
  4. Psychologically healthy are those who are aware of who they are
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If Freud has Julius

Alfred has ______.

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Rudolf Adler

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Eldest brother of Adler

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Sigmund Adler

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Tell the significant childhood events of Adler

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  1. Sya ay pangalawa sa magkakapatid

2. Reason of being physician - to conquer death

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In adler’s theory, what formed of human motivation?

What is the counterpart of it in psychoanalytic?

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Physical deficiencies

Sex and aggression

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What are the two cornerstones of human motivation, according to adler?

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Social interest and compassion

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Why did Adler admire the americans unlike to Freud?

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He was impressed of their open-mindedness or optimism

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Who is her wife and what is her job?

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Raissa Epstein

Politically active

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Adler’s date of death and cause

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May 28, 1937, heart attack

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What is adler’s theory?

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Individual psychology

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What are the two foundation of Adler’s theory?

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  • People are born with weak and inferior bodies and that leads to feelings of inferiority and dependence to other people
  • Social interest is ultimate standard for psychological health
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What is the ultimate standard of a psychologically healthy, accg to Adler?

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Social Interest

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Explain the six tenents or final statements of Individual Psychology

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  1. A dynamic force is either striving for success or inferiority
  2. A subjective perceptions shape their personality and behavior
  3. Personality is unified and self-consistent
  4. Social interest seen by valuing human activity
  5. Self - consistent personality develops a person’s style of life
  6. Style of life is molded by people’s creatiive power
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Striving for success vs. Striving for Superiority

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Striving for success - psychologically healthy (success to all humanity)
Striving for superiority - psychologically unhealthy (personal success)

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What is masculine protest?

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Will to power or domination of others

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What is creative power?

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Ability to freely shape their behavior and create their own personality

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What is the final goal of the person?

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A fictional goal of success for all humanity

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What is the cause of Adler’s death?

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Heart Attack

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What happened to Adler during WWI?

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Like Freud leads to his agression drive, Adler also lead him to the cornerstone of human motivation which are social interest and compassion

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What is the cause of human motivation according to Adler? What book he wrote?

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Human deficiency

inferiority and psychical compensation

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What is the reason why he wanted to become a physician?

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He wanted to overcome death, it all started when Rudolf his brother died beside of him and he was traumatized that he needs to overcome death because he has pneumonia

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What is the first tenent?

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Striving for superiority and success

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What is masculine protest?
A will for dominance
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What is inferiority complex?
Exaggerated feelings of inferiority
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It is the freely shape to his behavior that leads to success or goal
creative power
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What age a child started to have a creative power?
5 - 6 years old
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What is the second tenent?
Subjective perceptionh shapes behavior and personality
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What is Fictionalism?
A final fictional goal of a person towards style of life
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What is the view of Adler towards the behavior of person?
Teleological or a person is determined by his future goals
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What is the third tenet?
Unity and self-consistency of personality
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It is a disturbance of one organ in the body. | It speak's the language of the body organ
Organ jargon/dialect
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It is the reason why a person wanted to reach the goal
To lessen the feelings of inferiority
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What is the fourth tenet?
Social interest is seen as the value of human activity
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What is social interest?
The community feeling, interest or oneness in the community
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What is the german word of social interest?
Gemeinschaftsgefuhl
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What is the origin of social interest?
the mother -child relationship during the early months of infancy
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How the mother affects the social interest of a child?
It has a major impact - love mother that has healthy love - social interest child over father - pampered father over society - neglect
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How the father affects the social interest of a child?
It has a major impact - social environment father that has healthy relationship with mother - social interest paternal authoritarianism - personal superiority emotional detachment - neglect/parasitic mother - child relationship
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It is the gauge to judge a person's worth
social interest
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What is the fifth tenet?
Style of life
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What is style of life?
It is a flavor of a person's life
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Psychologically unhealthy vs. Psychologically healthy
The former - they live with inflexible lives | The latter - they live with flexible and diverse with complex style of life
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What are the three common problems in life?
1. Neighborly love 2. Sexual love 3. Occupation
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What is the solution for the three common problems in life?
Social interest
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What are the three ways to have a good welfare?
1. Cooperation 2. Courage 3. Willingness
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What is the sixth tenet?
creative power
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It is the freedom to create a style of life
creative power
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It is the most salient characteristic of life
Movement
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It is the bricks and mortar of personality
heredity and environment
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What age does a child established his style of life?
4 - 5 years old
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What is the root of maladjustment?
underdeveloped social interest
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What are the three internal factors of maladjustments?
1. Set a higher goals 2. Rigid and dogmatic style of life 3. They have private world or private meaning
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What are the three external factors of maladjustments?
1. Exaggerated physical deficiencies 2. Pampered style of life 3. Neglected style of life
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It is the progeny of social interest
Physical deficiency
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It is the heart of neuroses
Pampered style of life
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It is used when a person has to protect his/her inflated selfp-image from a public grace?
Safeguarding tendencies
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What is the counterpart of Safeguarding tendencies in psychoanalytic?
Defense mechanism
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Difference of safeguarding and defense mechanism
Conscious-operated and one is | Unconscious-operated
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What are the three forms of safeguarding tendencies?
Excuses, Agression and Withdrawal
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What is "yes, but" and "If only"
Excuses
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What is aggression?
It is to protect self-image
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What are the three types of aggression?
Depreciation, accusation and self-accusation
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It is belittling others, overvalue one self
Depreciation
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It is blaming others and seek for revenge
Accusation
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It is converse type of depreciation which a person disvalue self to hurt other people around him
Self-accusation
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What is withdrawal?
It is runaway from difficulties
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It is runaway from difficulties
Withdrawal
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What are the four types of withdrawal?
Moving backward, standing still, hesitating, constructing obstacles
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It is the regression in safeguarding tendencies
Moving backward
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It is reverting back from a secure life that elicits sympathy
Moving backward
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It has no direction, doing nothing, securing image from failure
Standing still
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"It's too late now" | It is a waste of time like repetitive actions
hesitating
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Its example is by building a straw house and when it fails you are going to excuse
Constructing obstacles
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What are the four application of individual psychology?
1. Family Constellation 2. Early recollection 3. Dreams 3. Psychotherapy
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It is a.k.a. birth order
Family Constellation
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What birth order that is overprotective and has a power?
first born
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What birth order that is the moderate and highly competitve child?
second born
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What birth order that strives harder and pampered style of life?
youngest
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What birth order that can have a parasitic relationship and has inflated self-image?
Only child
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What is early recollection according to Adler?
It is shaped by the present style of life | It does not determined by the style of life
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What is dream according to Adler?
It is self-deception | It means that "everything can be interpreted differently"
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What is the method used by adler for his therapy?
Humor and warmth
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What is the purpose of Adler's therapy?
To enhance courage, lessen feelings of inferiority and encourage social interest
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"Everybody can accomplish everything"
Alfred Adler
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How he treats the child client?
He used therapy in public or in front of the parents so that a child realize that it is a community problem which causes to place a great value of social interest in him.
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What test is useful for vocational interest?
SDS (Self-directed Search)
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How many career types does Holland have?
Six
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What are the six career types?
Realistic, Investigate, Artistic, Social, Enterprising and Conventional,
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A career type which a person is practical and mechanical
Realistic
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A career type which a person is independen and expressive
Artistic
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A career type which a person is precise, scientific and intellectual
Investigate
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A career type which a person is trustworthy, friendly and helpful
Social
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A career type which a person is sociable, energetic and ambitious
Enterprising
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A career type which a person is orderly and able to follow a set plan
Conventional
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After the masculine protest, what significant idea did Freud made?
He theorized about narcissism
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It is a maladaptive and unhealthy personality orientation
narcissim
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It is an adaptive and healthy personality orientation
Self-esteem
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ADLER: | DETERMINISM VS. FREE CHOICE
FREE CHOICE
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ADLER: | PESSIMISM VS. OPTIMISTIC
OPTIMISTIC
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ADLER: | CAUSALITY VS. TELEOLOGY
TELEOLOGY
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ADLER: | UNCONSCIOUS VS. CONSCIOUS
CONSCIOUS
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ADLER: | BIOLOGICAL VS. SOCIAL INFLUENCE
SOCIAL INFLUENCE
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ADLER: | SIMILARITIES VS. UNIQUENESS
UNIQUENESS

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