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| understanding the behavior of each person as a complex, organized entity operating within a learning society |
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| idea that goals determine your behavior |
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| what we perceive to be our final goal, a fiction we create to give our lives direction and purpose |
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| a biologically based defect that gives rise to feelings of inadequacy and compensation |
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| "great upward drive"; striving for this gives you energy to pursue your goals |
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| Destructive and constructive paths |
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| based on healthy or neurotic superiority |
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| attempts to compensate for feelings of inferiority by acting as though superior to others; can be male or female |
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| exaggerated attempts to overcome feelings of inferiority by acting as though they are personally superior to others |
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| innate tendency in humans to help and cooperate with one another to establish a harmonious and productive society; without it humanity would parish; needs proper guidance to manifest |
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| individual's unique mode of adjusting to life, personality, patter, central features outlined in earlly life |
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| people have the ability to create their own destiny and personalities |
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| Theory of organ inferiority |
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| Role of social interest in development |
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| 3 developmental problems in life |
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| society/communal life, work, love |
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| first borns=center of attention-> dethroned monarch-> understands the importance of power, supports status quo; second born=rebellious and highly competitive; youngest=spoiled, dependent on others |
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| ruling, getting, avoiding, socially useful |
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| strives for personal superiority by trying to control and exploit others |
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| attains personal goals by relying on others for help, to solve their problems, |
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| person who lacks confidence to confront problems and avoid or ignores them, doesn’t feel like they are capable of solving life problems, come off as self-absorbed |
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| person who actively and coureously confronts and solves his or her problems in accordance with social interst, harmonious |
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| ruling, getting, avoiding |
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| Early recollections as an assessment technique |
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| earliest memories provide insignts into life style (mode of adjusting to life), mostly goals and means of achieving them, hold clues about present and future identity |
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| Adler’s analysis of dreams |
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| Abnormal development according to Adler |
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| Safeguarding tendencies (Esp. 3 most common) |
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| excuses, aggression, withdrawal |
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