Ch. 4 - Alfred Adler

Question 1

personality is compensation for physical deficiencies

Answer 1

Organ Inferiority

Question 2

you hate the things wrong with you and it’s a source of energy

Answer 2

Aggression Drive

Question 3

attempting to become more powerful by being more ‘active’ rather than ‘passive’

Answer 3

Masculine Protest

Question 4

biological predisposition for aiming for superiority

Answer 4

Superiority Striving

Question 5

it’s not just being better, we strive to be the best

Answer 5

Perfection Striving

Question 6

a person’s ultimate ambition, subjective and personally meaningful, created unconsciously by the individual to deal with life

Answer 6

Fictional Final Goal

Question 7

pattern of person’s day-to-day life; molded by individual’s sense of inferiority and superiority

Answer 7

Style of Life

Question 8

involvement with and concern for other people

Answer 8

Social Interest

Question 9

get undivided attention until dethroned by a sibling

Answer 9

First Born

Question 10

has a pacemaker and no severe dethronement

Answer 10

Middle Born

Question 11

overpampered baby of the family, problems with independence

Answer 11

Last Born

Question 12

never had to give up anything, never had to fight for anything

Answer 12

Only Child

Question 13

similar to Freud’s rationalization

Answer 13

Excuses

Question 14

put people down

Answer 14

Depreciation

Question 15

to put someone on a pedestal, but no one can live up to those standards

Answer 15

Idealization

Question 16

an overly caring position, act as if another person can’t care for themselves

Answer 16

Solicitude

Question 17

blame or open aggression

Answer 17

Accusation

Question 18

self-blame, feeling bad for yourself

Answer 18

Self-Accusation

Question 19

regressing to childhood behaviors

Answer 19

Moving Backward

Question 20

impediments designed to keep you at arm’s length

Answer 20

Constructing Obstacles

Question 20

put things off to avoid a decision

Answer 20

Hesitation/Procrastination

Question 20

having no motivation to change, being stagnant

Answer 20

Standing Still

Question 21

deliberately pushing people away

Answer 21

Exclusion

Question 22

psychological condition that exists when a person is overwhelmed by feelings of inferiority to the point at which nothing can be accomplished

Answer 22

Inferiority Complex

Question 23

free element of the personality that allows the person to choose between alternative fictional goals and lifestyles

Answer 23

Creative Self

Question 24

any lifestyle that is not aimed at socially useful goals

Answer 24

Mistaken Lifestyle

Question 25

attempts to dominate or rule people

Answer 25

Ruling-Dominant Type

Question 26

expects everything from others and gets everything they can

Answer 26

Getting-Leaning Type

Question 27

“succeeds” in life by avoiding problems/failure

Answer 27

Avoiding Type

Question 28

confronts problems and attempts to solve them

Answer 28

Socially Useful Type