HS 9 M3 Flashcards

(80 cards)

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Individual psychology holds that everyone begins life with PHYSICAL DEFICIENCIES that activate feelings of inferiority—feelings that motivate a person to___________

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Striving for Success or Superiority

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People strive toward a final goal of either
personal superiority or the goal of success for all humankind.

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THE FINAL GOAL

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People strive for superiority or success as a means of COMPENSATIONfor feelings of
inferiority or weakness.

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STRIVING FORCE AS COMPENSATION

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Some people strive for superiority with little or no concern for others. Their goals are personal ones, and their strivings are motivated largely by exaggerated feelings of personal inferiority, or the presence of an inferiority complex.

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STRIVING FOR PERSONAL SUPERIORITY

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In contrast to people who strive for
personal gain are those psychologically healthy people who are motivated by social interest and the SUCCESS of all humankind.

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STRIVING FOR SUCCESS

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People strive for superiority or success to compensate for feelings of inferiority, but the manner in which they strive is not shaped by reality but by their ________of reality, that is, by their fictions, or expectations of the future.

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Subjective Perceptions

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Our most important fiction is the goal of
superiority or success, a goal we created early in life and may not clearly understand

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FICTIONALISM

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Because people begin life small, weak, and inferior, they develop a fiction or belief system about how to overcome these PHYSICAL deficiencies and become big, strong, and superior.

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PHYSICAL INFERIORITIES

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In choosing the term individual psychology, Adler wished to stress his belief that EACH PERSON IS UNIQUE AND INDIVIBLE. Thus, individual psychology insists on the fundamental UNITY of personality and the notion that inconsistent behavior does not
exist.

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Unity and Self-Consistency
of Personality

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The disturbance of one part of the body cannot be viewed in isolation; it affects the entire person. In fact, the deficient organ expresses the direction of the individual’s
goal, a condition known as _______.

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ORGAN DIALECT

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a unified personality is the
harmony between_______

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conscious and unconscious actions

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Is the part of the goal that is neither clearly formulated or completely understood by the individual.

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Unconscious

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Thoughts are those that are understood and regarded by the individual as helpful in striving for success

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Conscious

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Social interest is Adler’s somewhat misleading translation of his original German term,

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Gemeinschaftsgefühl

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Is rooted as a potentiality in everyone, but it must be developed before it can contribute to a useful STYLE OF LIFE. It originates from the mother child relationship during the early months of infancy

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ORIGINS OF SOCIAL INTEREST

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Social interest was Adler’s yardstick for MEAURING psychological health and is thus “the sole criterion of human values”.

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IMPORTANCE OF SOCIAL INTEREST

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Is the term Adler used to refer to the
flavor of a person’s life.

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Style of life

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It includes a person’s goal, self-concept, feelings for others, and attitude toward the world. It is the product of the interaction of heredity, environment, and a person’s creative power.

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Style of life

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The ________displays a dominant or RULING ATTITUDE with little social awareness.

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dominant type

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The to _____ Adler, the MOST COMMON HUMAN TYPE expects to receive satisfaction from other people and so becomes dependent on them.

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getting type

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The _______ makes no attempt to face life’s problems. By avoiding difficulties, the person avoids any possibility of failure.

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avoiding type

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The ________, in contrast, cooperates with others and acts in accordance with their needs

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socially useful type

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Each person, Adler believed, is empowered with the FREEDOM TO CREATE her or his OWN STYLE OF LIFE. Ultimately, all people are responsible for who they are and how they behave.

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Creative Power

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Their ______places them in control
of their own lives, is responsible for their final goal, determines their method of striving for that goal, and contributes to the development of social interest

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Creative Power

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They must be accompanied by accentuated feelings of inferiority.
EXXAGERATED PHYSICAL DEFICIENCIES
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Whether congenital or the result of injury or disease, are not sufficient to lead to maladjustment
EXXAGERATED PHYSICAL DEFICIENCIES
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These subjective feelings may be greatly encouraged by a defective body, but they are the progeny of the creative power
EXXAGERATED PHYSICAL DEFICIENCIES
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A _________ lies at the heart of most neuroses. Pampered people have weak social interest but a strong desire to perpetuate the pampered, parasitic relationship they originally had with one or both of their parents.
PAMPERED STYLE OF LIFE
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Children who feel unloved and unwanted are likely to borrow heavily from these feelings in creating a
NEGLECTED STYLE OF LIFE
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Adler believed that people create PATTERNS OF BEHAVIOR to protect their exaggerated sense of self-esteem against public disgrace.
Safeguarding Tendencies
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Safeguards of the mind against feelings and thoughts that are too difficult for the conscious mind to cope with.
Defense Mechanisms
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Unhealthy individuals strive for personal superiority, whereas _____ healthy people seek success for all humanity.
Psychologically
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German term, Gemeinschaftsgefühl. A better translation might be ______
“social feeling” or “community feeling,”
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Claiming that someone would like to do something that sounds good to others then follow with an excuse.
EXCUSES
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Tendency to undervalue other people’s achievements and overvalue one’s own.
Depreciation
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Tendency marked by self-torture and guilt.
Self- Accusation
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Safeguarding through distance.
Withdrawal
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Tendency to blame others for one’s failures and to seek revenge.
Accusation
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Is the tendency to safeguard one’s fictional goal of superiority by psychologically reverting to a more secure period of life.
Moving Backward
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People who______ simply do not move in any direction; thus, they avoid all responsibility by ensuring themselves against any threat of failure.
Stand still
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Some people ______ or vacillate when faced with difficult problems. Their procrastinations eventually give them the excuse “It’s too late now.”
Hesitate
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Some people build a straw house to show that they can knock it down. By overcoming the obstacle, they protect their self-esteem and their prestige
Constructing Obstacles
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Adler, cultural and social practices—not anatomy—influence many men and women to overemphasize the importance of being manly, a condition he called the ______.
Masculine protest
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ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY
CARL JUNG
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Jung believed that each of us is motivated not only by repressed experiences but also by certain emotionally toned experiences inherited from our ancestors. These inherited images are called the _________.
Collective unconscious
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Some elements of the collective unconscious become highly developed and are called _______.
Archetypes
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The physical contents of the_______ are inherited and pass from one generation to the next as psychic potential
Collective unconscious
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Images are those that are sensed by the ego.
CONSCIOUS
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Embraces all repressed, FORGETTEN, or subliminally perceived EXPERIENCES of one particular INDIVIDUAL.
PERSONAL UNCONSCIOUS
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The side of personality that people show to the world.
PERSONA
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Are ancient or archaic images that derive from the collective unconscious. They are similar to complexes in that they are emotionally toned collections of associated images.
ARCHETYPES
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The feminine side of personality.
ANIMA
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The archetype of darkness and repression, represents those qualities we do not wish to acknowledge but attempt to hide from ourselves and others
SHADOW
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The masculine side of personality.
ANIMUS
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Represents two opposing forces—fertility and nourishment on the one hand and power and destruction on the other.
GREAT MOTHER
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The archetype of wisdom and meaning.
WISE OLD MAN
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The image people have of a conqueror who vanishes evil but who has a single fatal flaw.
HERO
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Humans are motivated both by their past experiences and by their expectations of the future.
CAUSALITY AND TELEOLOGY
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Are ancient or archaic images that derive from the collective unconscious. They are similar to complexes in that they are emotionally toned collections of associated images.
Archetypes
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The most comprehensive of all archetypes
SELF
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Backward step is essential to a person’s forward movement toward self-realization
PROGRESSION AND REGRESSION
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Jung defined an ______ as a predisposition to act or react in a characteristic direction.
Attitude
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Is the turning inward of psychic energy with an orientation toward the subjective.
INTROVERSION
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Both introversion and extraversion can combine with any one or more of four functions, forming eight possible orientations, or types
FUNCTIONS
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Is the attitude distinguished by the turning outward of psychic energy so that a person is oriented toward the objective and away from the subjective.
EXTRAVERSION
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Tells people that something exists; thinking enables them to recognize its meaning;
Sensing
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Tells them its value or worth
Feeling
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Allows them to know about it without knowing how they know.
Intuition
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Logical intellectual activity that produces a chain of ideas is called ______
THINKING
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Jung used the term _____ to describe the process of evaluating an idea or event, which can either be extraverted or introverted
FEELING
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The function that receives physical stimuli and transmits them to perceptual consciousness is called ______ can either be extraverted or introverted.
SENSING
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Involves perception beyond the workings of consciousness. Like sensing, it is based on the perception of absolute elementary facts, ones that provide the raw material for thinking and feeling.
Intuition
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The______ is characterized by chaotic and sporadic consciousness.
Anarchic phase
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The ______ of childhood is characterized by the development of the ego and by the beginning of logical and verbal thinking.
Monarchic phase
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The ego as perceiver arises during the ______of childhood when the ego is divided into the objective and subjective.
Dualistic phase
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The period from puberty until middle life is called _______.
Youth
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Jung believed that middle life begins at approximately age _____
35 or 40
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Fear of death is often taken as normal, but Jung believed that death is the goal of life and that life can be fulfilling only when death is seen in this light
Old age
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Middle life is also a period of _____
Tremendous potential
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_______, also called self-realization or individuation, is the process of becoming an individual or whole person
Psychological rebirth