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Alfred Adler Theories of Personality
Adler's Individual Psychology
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Psychology
Undergraduate 4
12/11/2010

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Individual Psychology
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the science of understanding behavior of a person as an organized entity
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teleological position
Definition
current behavior is determined by future goals
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Superiority
Definition
the ultimate goal in life, we are constantly striving in an upward drive
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Species cannot exist without
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sustained cooperation
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social interest
Definition
by striving for others goals we can help ourselves
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organ inferiority
Definition
exaggerated feelings of unmanliness
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masculine protest
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compensation behaviors
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overcompensation
Definition
trying to prove manhood with excessive flirtation
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Style of life
Definition
life plan or guiding image
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Three basic development problems of life
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(1) society or communal life (2) love (3) work
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eldest child
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center of attetnion, dethroned monarch, resentment towards younger children, understand the importance or power and authority
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youngest child
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baby of the family, comandeer most of the attention
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only child
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center of attention, needs to be universally well liked
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destructive personality
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organ inferiority, neglect or reaction, pampering
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Four major lifestyle types
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ruling, getting, avoidant, socially useful
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Assessment techniques
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early recollections, dream analysis, birth order
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