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PSY 435 Exam 2 Questions And Answers Latest Update
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PSY 435 Exam 2 Questions And Answers Latest
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What are the key aspects of Adler's childhood? ANS✔✔ - born in a Viennese
suburb in 1870
- second son of middle class Jewish parents
- raised in large family
- had a younger brother that died in infancy
Adler's adulthood: ANS✔✔ - received his medical degree in 1895
- was a charter member of Freud's organization
- published "Study of Organ Inferiority and Its Psychical Compensation" in
1907.
- rivalry with Freud led to his departure from the group
- founded the society for Individual Psychology
- died in Scotland in 1937
What is social interest? ANS✔✔ A force that binds society together
How does social interest develop? ANS✔✔ - potentially is found in everyone
- found in mother-infant relationship
- fostered by social environment
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What is the importance of social interest? ANS✔✔ - a measure of
psychological health and maturity
- "the sole criterion of human values" and the "barometer or normality"
What is the role of "inferiority" in Adler's theory? ANS✔✔ - physical
inferiorities
- serves as motivation towards future goals
- all humans born physically inferior need fictions of strength to overcome
these deficiencies
According to Adler, what is the primary motivation underlying human
behavior? ANS✔✔ Striving for superiority/success
Compare someone striving for "personal superiority" to someone striving for
"success." ANS✔✔ - personal superiority describes someone who thinks they
are better than everyone else after working hard.
- success describes someone who has become well-known for their
accomplishments and is satisfied/happy.
What is the role of "personal fictions" in Adlerian theory? ANS✔✔ - When
feelings of inferiority get stimulated
- protecting ourselves excuses, aggression, and withdrawal
What is the function of safeguarding tendencies? ANS✔✔ -Adler believed
that people create patterns of behavior to protect their exaggerated sense
of self esteem against public disgrace
-these protective devices enable people to hide their inflated self esteem
- creates "neurotic lifestyle"
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