Learning Check: Adler Flashcards
True or False: Adlerian safeguarding tendencies protect the individual’s ego against public disgrace and loss of self-esteem.
False
Adler’s concept of standing still is similar to Freud’s concept of ____.
A. Repression
B. Fixation
C. Sublimation
D. Projection
B. Fixation
True or False: A unique aspect of early Adlerian therapy was treating children in front of an audience.
True
True or False: Adler held that exaggerated physical deficiencies trigger inferiority feelings leading to abnormal development.
True
Adler hypothesized that early recollections _____.
A. Are shaped by one’s present style of life
B. Cause or determine one’s style of life
C. Are complex daydreams
D. Are usually unpleasant and traumatic
A. Are shaped by one’s present style of life
The “sole criterion of human values”, Adler said, is ___.
A. Creative power
B. Social interest
C. Subjectivity of perception
D. Style of life
B. Social interest
The tendency toward completion, Adler believed ___.
A. Was innate but needed to be developed
B. Was learned during preadolescence
C. Was a result of birth order
D. Resulted from the masculine protest
A. Was innate but needed to be developed
True or False: According to Adler, early recollections is the most reliable means of revealing style of life.
True
Adler first postulated the aggressive drive and the will to power as the fundamental motivations that shape human personality. He later extended his view to include the ____.
A. Search for meaning
B. Will to knowledge
C. Striving for success
D. Striving for self-actualization
C. Striving for success
According to Adler, the goal toward which a psychologically healthy person strives is ____.
A. Largely conscious or known to that person
B. The creation of one’s conscious thought
C. Shaped mostly by the person’s birth order
D. Fictional, with no objective existence
D. Fictional, with no objective existence
According to Adler, organ inferiorities ___
A. Are important as they stimulate feelings of inferiority
B. Cause the development of inferior personalities
C. Are important because they bestow purpose on all behavior
D. Cause the development of superior personalities
A. Are important as they stimulate feelings of inferiority
True or False: Although similar to Freud’s defense mechanisms, Adler’s concept of safeguarding tendencies differs in several respects. One difference is that safeguarding tendencies are completely conscious.
False
Unlike Freud’s psychoanalysis, Adler’s individual psychology assumed that ___.
A. Most behavior is motivated by unconscious forces
B. People are mostly responsible for their personalities
C. Behavior is shaped by past experiences
D. People are motivated largely by aggression.
B. People are mostly responsible for their personalities
Adler’s notion of the masculine protest ___.
A. Is the precursor to the feminine protest
B. Is a reaction to feelings of inferiority
C. Applies only to women
D. Is genetically determined
B. Is a reaction to feelings of inferiority
The most important factor for the child in Adler’s family constellation is ____.
A. Gender of siblings
B. Number of siblings
C. Subjective perception of self and environment
D. Rank order of siblings
C. Subjective perception of self and environment
