Exam 2 PPT Notes Flashcards
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Alfred Adler: Humanistic Theorist:
- emphasis on impact of being … living in a … on development
- one of theorists that Freud hoped would assume his position as …
- believes each person strives for …, …, …
social creature;
social world;
leader of analytic theory;
superiority;
competence;
mastery of life
Alfred Adler: Humanistic Theorist:
- childhood - marked by …, awareness of … and … of his ….
illness;
death;
intense jealousy;
older brother
Alfred Adler: Humanistic Theorist:
- had feelings of …
- compensaated for … through …
inferiority;
weaknesses;
persistence
Alfred Adler: Humanistic Theorist:
- differences with Freud:
- drives:
- Freud: …
- Adler: …
- Ego:
- Freud: Ego … to Id, …
- Adler: Ego is … of id, …
- drives:
sex;
aggression;
subservient;
fueled by id;
independent of id;
conscious striving to be someone
Alfred Adler: Humanistic Theorist:
- Differences with Freud:
- Oedipal Issues:
- Freud: child’s attempt to …
- Adler: …, …, attain …
- Oedipal Issues:
possess mother;
compete with Father;
equal strength;
superiority of father
Alfred Adler: Humanistic Theorist:
- Meaning of Dreams:
- Freud: …
- Adler: dreamer’s attempt to … that they are … or … to do during conscious life
disguised wish fulfillments;
resolve problems;
unwilling;
not able
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- Holism:
- Adler viewed man as a …, a … whole that functions as an … system, not as a collection of … and … as Freud suggests
unit;
self-conscious;
open;
drives;
instincts
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- teleology:
- the belief that individuals are guided not only by … but that they also move toward certain goals of …
- believed that standing before the unknown, each person strives to become more … and is motivated by one dynamic force - the … for …
mechanical forces;
self-realization;
perfect;
upward striving;
completion
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- Striving for … - desire we all have to …, to realize our …
superiority;
fulfill our potential;
ideals
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- striving for superiority
- the basic dynamic force between all human activity - striving from a feeling of … to one of …
- Adler believed that … are the source of all human striving. All individual progress, growth and development result from the attempt to …
- everyone is trying to overcome something that is … them from becoming what they want to become
inferiority;
superiority;
inferiority feelings;
compensate for one’s inferiorities;
hampering
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- masculine protest - a term introduced by Alfred Adler to denote a cluster of personality traits in either sex arising as … for feelings of … and …
- Adler used the term more specifically to denote the rejection by women of the … in favor of more … And one big reason that women and men reject roles is bc they want to … and feel more … in a situation
- attempt by men and women to … and …
overcompensations;
inferiority;
rejection of the feminine role;
traditional feminine roles;
masculine ones;
gain power;
dominant;
demolish dependency;
assert autonomy
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- social interest - social interest is the inevitable compensation for all the … of human beings. social interest is a …; an … feeling of … and a genuine interest in the … and …
natural weaknesses;
way of life;
optimistic;
confidence in oneself;
welfare;
well-being of others
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- social interest
- human beings are clearly .., needing a much longer period of … before maturity than any animal
- as long as the feeling of inferiority is …, a person will always strive to be worthwhile and … in life
- this gives us the feeling of being … which originates from …
innately social;
dependence upon others;
not too great;
useful;
valuable;
contribution to the common welfare
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- fictional finalism: the belief that human beings are more strongly motivated by the … and … - … or … - that they create for themselves and more influenced by …
goals;
ideals;
realizable;
unattainable;
future possibilities
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- fictional finalism:
- people live by many … that have no relation to … and therefore cannot be … and … (e.g. all men are created equal)
fictional ideals;
reality;
tested;
confirmed
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- fictional finalism:
- these fictions may help a person feel … and justify the rightness of their …, although at the same time cause others … and … and …
powerful;
selfish choices;
harm;
injustice;
destroy relationships
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- Adler concluded that people are motivated more by their … than they are by …
- for example, if a person believes that there is heaven for those who are good and hell for those who are bad, it will probably affect …
expectations of the future;
the past;
how that person lives
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- Neurotics:
- …, …, unable to …
self-absorbed;
self-involved;
abandon fictional goals
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- neurotics:
- the neurotic … for feeling … to …
- points to his symptom to justify … (e.g. overindulged child may become …, neglected child may seek…)
- the neurotic … for feeling … to …
overcompensates;
insecure;
protect self-esteem;
lack of social interest;
self-centered;
revenge against society
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- Neurotic safeguards:
- …, …, and … are three common safeguarding tendencies, eaach designed to protect a person’s … and to maintain a fictional, elevated feeling of …
excuses;
aggression;
withdrawal;
present style of life;
self-importaance
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- neurotic safeguards:
- humans basically meet three types of threats, which they want to be protected from:
- …, … and …
- humans basically meet three types of threats, which they want to be protected from:
physical harm;
social threat;
loss of self-esteem
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- neurotic safeguards:
- techniques applied by individuals in order to protect themselves from these threats
- 3 categories of neurotic safeguards:
- …/…
- …
- …/…
excuses/rationalizations;
aggression;
withdrawal/distancing
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- excuses/rationalizations:
- the person expresses their intention to do …, and then explains …
- excuses help the person to … by …
what would please others;
why they cannot do it;
protect their self-esteem;
shifting the blame of their shortcomings
Alfred Adler - Major Theoretical Perspectives:
- excuses/rationalizations:
- lack of responsibility for one’s actions limits a person from … as the excuses one makes offer him or her …
flourishing in life;
comfort in failure