Chapter 4 Flashcards
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Adler called his approach … because it focused on the uniqueness of each person and denied the universality of biological motives and goals ascribed to us by Sigmund Freud.
In Adler’s view, each of us is primarily a … being. Our personalities are shaped by our unique … and …
individual psychology;
social;
social environments;
interactions
Unlike Freud, who saw sex as being of primary importance in shaping our personalities, Adler … To Adler, the …, not the …, was at the core of personality
minimized the role of sex;
conscious;
unconscious
Adler was … by his mother initially, but then was suddenly … at the age of 2 by the arrival of another baaby.
Adler had no use for the Freudian concept of the … because it was so foreign to his childhood experiences.
Adler was always jealous of his older brother, who was vigorous and … and could engage in the physical activities and sports in which Alfred could not take part
pampered;
dethroned;
Oedipus complex;
healthy
Alfred had rickets but resolved to work hard to overcome his feelings of … and to compensate for his physical limitations
Adler emphasized the importance of the … and suggested that childhood relationships with … and with … were much more significant than Freud believed
inferiority;
peer group;
siblings;
children outside of family
Adler was never a …/… of Freud’s and was not … by him
student/disciple;
psychoanalyzed
Adler believed that … are a constant motivating force in all behavior
Adler proposed that these feelings are the source of all human striving. Individual growth results from …, from our attempts to … our real/imagined …
inferiority feelings;
compensation;
overcome;
inferiorities
Adler believed that infants are aware of their parents’ greater … and … and of their own hopelessness to … or … that power. As a result, infants develop feelings of … relative to the larger, stronger people around them
power;
strength;
resist;
challenge;
inferiority
Although this initial experience of inferiority applies to everyone in infancy, it is not … determined. Rather, it is a function of the …, which is the same for all infants, a climate of … and …
genetically;
environment;
helplessness;
dependence on adults
Inferiority feelings are inescapable, but more important they are necessary because they provide the motivation for us to … and …
strive;
grow
An inability to overcome inferioriy feelings … them, leading to the development of an … People with this have a poor opinion of themselves and feel … and unable to …
intensifies;
inferiority complex;
helpless;
cope with the demands of life
An inferiority complex can arise from three sources in childhood: …, …., and …
organic inferiority;
spoiling;
neglect
Inferiority Complex:
- Adler argued that defective parts/organs of the body shape personality through the person’s efforts to … for the defect or weakness
- efforts to overcome organic inferiority can result in striking …, … and … accomplishments, but if those efforts fail, they can lead to an …
compensate;
artistic;
athletic;
social;
inferiority complex
Inferiority Complex:
- The first experience at school, where spoiled children are no longer the focus of attention, comes as a shock for which they are unprepared. Spoiled children have little … and are … with others
- When confronted with obstacles to gratificaiton, spoiled children come to believe that they must have some … that is thwarting them; hence, an … develops
social feeling;
impatient;
personal deficiency;
inferiority complex
Inferiority Complex:
- For neglected children, their infancy and childhood are characterized by a lack of … and … bc their parents are … or …
- As a result, these children develop feelings of …, or even … and view others with …
love;
security;
indifferent;
hostile;
worthlessness;
anger;
distrust
Inferiority Complex:
- whatever the source of the complex, a person may attempt to overcompensate and so develop what Adler called a … This involves an exaggerated opinion of one’s abilities and accomplishments
- Such persons may feel inwardly … and … and show no need to … with actual accomplishments. Or the person may feel such a need and work hard to become extremely successful
superiority complex;
self-satisfied;
superior;
demonstrate their superiority
Inferiority Complex:
- In both cases, persons with a superiority complex are given to …, …, … and a tendency to … others
boasting;
vanity;
self-centeredness;
denigrate
At first, Adler identified inferiority with a general feeling of weakness or of …, in recognition of the inferior standing of … in the society of his day. He spoke of trying to compensate for this feeling as the …
Later he rejected the idea of equating inferiority feelings with … and developed a broader viewpoint in which we strive for …, or ….
feminity;
women;
masculine protest;
feminity;
superiority;
perfection
Adler suggested that we strive for superiority in an effort to … to make ourselves … or …
perfect;
complete;
whole
Adler suggested that we strive for superiority in an effort to perfect ourselves, to make ourselves complete or whole.
This innate goal, the drive toward wholeness or completion, is oriented toward the … Whereas Freud proposed that human behavior is determined by the … (that is, by the instincts and by our childhood experiences), Adler saw human motivation in terms of … and …
future;
past;
expectations;
aspirations for the future
Adler applied the term … to the idea that we have an ultimate goal, a final state of being, and a need to move toward it. The goals for which we strive, however, are …, not …
Adler believed that our goals are … or … that cannot be …
finalism;
potentialities;
actualities;
fictional;
imagined ideals;
tested against reality
Fictional finalism: the notion that … guide our behavior as we strive toward a …/… state of being.
- We direct the course of our lives by many such fictions, but the most pervasive one is the ideal of …
fictional ideas;
complete; whole;
perfection
Fictional finalism
- ideal of perfection –> Adler suggested that the best formulation of this ideal developed by human beings so far is the concept of …
Adler preferred the terms … or … to describe the concept of fictional finalism
God;
subjective final goal;
guiding self-ideal
Striving for superiority:
- It increases rather than reduces …
- Unlike Freud, Adler did not believe that our sole motivation was to ….
- Striving for perfection requires great expenditures of energy/effort, a condition quite different from … or a … state
tension;
reduce tension;
equilibrium;
tension-free
Striving for superiority:
- striving for superiority is manifested both by the … and by … as a whole. Most of us are social beings. We strive for superiority or perfection not only as individuals but also as members of …
individual;
society;
a group