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Psychologist, founder of Individual Psychology.
His most famous concept is the Inferiority Complex.
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Each person is an integrated whole.
Striving to attain future goals and attempting to find meaning in life while working harmoniously with others. |
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Normal condition of all people is the source of all human striving
Begin in infancy; infants being small, helpless and dependent on adults
Not genetically determined; but a function of the environment
Inescapable; necessary to provide motivation to strive and grow |
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| Motivation to overcome inferiority, to strive for higher levels of development |
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Condition that develops when a person is unable to compensate for normal inferior feelings
People with such have a poor opinion of themselves and feel helpless and unable to cope with the demands of life |
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one source of inferiority complex in childhood
Defective parts of the body shape personality through the person's efforts to compensate for the defect or weakness;
If efforts to compensate fail, it could lead to an inferiorty complex
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one source of inferiority complex in childhood
center of attention at home
first experience at the school comes as shock, since they are no longer the center of attention
when confronted with obstacles to gratification, spoiled children come to believe that they must have some personal deficiency that is thwarting them |
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one source of inferiority complex in childhood
infancy and childhood characterized by a lack of love and security because of indifferent or hostile parents;
the child develops feeling of worthlessness or even anger and view other with distrust |
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condition that develops when a person is over compensates for normal inferiority feelings
exaggerated opinion of one's abilities and accomplishments
boastful, vain, self-centered, tendency to denigrate others |
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| Striving for Superiority or Perfection |
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initially Adler equated inferiority with a general feeling of weakness of femininity
compensation for this feeling is called "Masculine Protest"
drive toward power in which aggression (a masculine characteristics) play a large part
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ultimate goal toward which we strive
not being better than anyone
an effort to perfect ourselves, make ourselves complete or whole
can explain personality and behavior
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idea that there is an imagined or potential goal that guides our behavior
the means by which we try to strive for superiority are tailored according one's subjective ideals
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unique character structure or pattern of personal behavior and characteristics by which each of strives for perfection
develops during infancy; in order to compensate, an infant or child must acquuire a set of behaviors; specific compensation for a particular inferiority
determines which aspect of our environment we attend to or ignore
learned for socil interaction early in life; crystallized by age 4 or 5 |
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one of four basic style of life
ruling attitude with little self awareness and social regard
may attack others
may believe to be hurting others by attacking themselves
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one of four basic style of life
being dependent on others |
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one of four basic style of life
no attempt to face life's problems |
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one of four basic style of life
cooperates with others;
acts in accordance with their needs;
cope with problems within a well-developed framework of social interests |
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originates from the mother-child relationship during the early months of infancy
our innate potential to cooperate with other people to achieve personal and societal goals
community feeling
evils stemmed from lack of community feeling
seems to oppose his ideas that people are motivated by needs for power
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