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| what paridigm was alfred Adler a part of? |
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| theory that each person is an integrated whole striving to attain future goals and attemting to find meaning in life while working harmoniously with others. |
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| condition that exsists when some organ of the body does not develop normally. In Adler's essay he put forth the idea that people are expecially vulnerable to disease in organs that are less developed than other organs |
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| making up for a weakness, such as organ inferiority, by emphasizing functions that substitute for the weakness. |
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| process by which through considerable effort, a previous weakness is converted into a strength. |
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| feelings that one has of being inferior, whether or not these feelings are justified by real circumstances. |
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striving to become more masculine
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| the primary motivating factor behind all personal accomplishments. |
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| psychological condition that exsits when a person is overwhelmed by feelings of inferiority to the point at which nothing can be accomplished |
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| what Adler called the fundamental fact of life. it is not the search for power that motivates humans but constant search for perfection. |
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| adler replaces his earlier contention that people seek power to overcome feelings of inferiority with the contention that they aspire to become superior or perfect. in addition healthy persons aspire to have perfection in society rather than individual. |
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| if a person concentrates exclusively on his or her own superiority while ignoring the needs of others and of society, he or she may develop this |
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| it the childs____________ of the major life events in his or her life that determines his or her worldview, not actual reality. |
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| fictional future goal to which a person aspires |
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| the primary means by which one attempts to attain his or her self created or fictional goals in life. |
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| an innate need of all humans to live in harmony and friendship with others and to aspire toward the development of the perfect society . |
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| what determines whether a person will have a well developed social interest or not? |
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| any lifestyle that is not aimed at socially useful goals |
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| dominates or fules other people |
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| expects everything from others and gets everything he or she can from them |
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| this person succeeds in life by avoiding problems |
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| who confronts problems and attempts to solve them in a socially useful way |
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| conditions that cause a child to beleive it is the responsibility of others to satisfy his or her needs |
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| condition that causes the child to feel worthless and angry and to be distrustful of everyone |
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| it it not the childs experiences which dictate his actions; it is the ___________which he draws from his experiences |
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| humans are not simply passive recipients of environmental or genetic influences. rather each person is free to act on these influences and combine them as he or she wishes. |
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| these are used to protect what little self-esteem and illusions of superiority a mistaken lifestyle can generate |
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| safeguarding strategy whereby neurotics use their symtpoms as an excuse for their shortcommings. |
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| as a safeguarding strategy, takes three forms. |
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| is the tendency to overvalue ones own accomplishments and to undervalue te accomplishments of others. |
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| tendency to blame others for his or her shortcommings and to seek revenge against them. |
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| involves wallowing in self-torture and guilt, the ultimate purpose of which is to hurt other people. |
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| stategy used by neurotics that involves creating barriers between themselves and their problems in life. |
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| the focus of attention until the next child is born, at which he or she is dethroned. most troublesome birth position |
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| has to be extremely ambitious because he or she is constantly trying to catch up and surpass the older sibling. was beleived to be the best of birth orders |
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| most likely to seek a unique identity withing a family, such as becoming a musician in a family of scientists or vice versa.second worst position after the first born |
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| is like a first born child who is never dethroned at least by a subling. |
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| a persons earliest recollections that provide the bass for a persons worldview, fictional final goal, and lifestyle. Adler beleived that as ones personality chages so do these. |
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| Adler beleived that the primary purpose of dreams was to create emotions that could be used by dreamers to support their mistaken lifestyles. Dreams then are analyzed to learn about the lifestyles of the dreamers |
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| fraternal birth order effect (FBO) |
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| The more older, biologically realted brothers a male child has the more likely he is to be homosexual. |
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