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ADLER
B. The dynamic force behind a person's activity is the striving for superiority or success.
C. All psychological phenomena are unified within the individual in a self-consistent manner.
5. Adler believed that the dynamic force motivating all human activity is
A. organ dialect.
B. a feeling of superiority.
6. Adler felt that every individual is striving to reach the same goal of
A. self-fulfillment.
B. a perfect society.
C. superiority or success.
D. reduction of anxiety.
11. Jade is a 20-year-old college junior who "checks in" daily with her out-of-state mother by e-mail or
telephone. Jade, who makes no decisions without consulting her mother, is a pre-med major because
her mother insists that she become a doctor. Adler would see Jade's relationship with her mother as a
________ one.
A. parasitic
B. casual
C. loving
D. sadistic
14. Jared develops tension headaches while trying to meet a deadline at work. This tactic allows him to
escape responsibility for meeting the deadline and to receive sympathy from his boss and coworkers.
According to Adler, Jared's headaches are examples of
A. an organ dialect.
B. an organ inferiority.
C. an as-if illness.
D. a fiction.
15. Adler believed that behavior and personality are
shaped by
B. organ inferiorities.
C. subjective perceptions.
E. birth order.
16. Adler referred to ideas that have no real existence yet influence people as if they really existed as
A. delusions.
B. hallucinations.
C. fictions.
D. hypothetical constructs.
E. objective certainty.
17. Adler said that all humans are "blessed" at birth with
C. superior intellects.
18. Teleology
A. is the doctrine that motivation must be considered according to its final purpose or aim.
21. Adler said that the usefulness or uselessness of all human activity should be seen from the point of
view of
B. the ego.
C. the superego.
D. the society.
E. social interest.
22. According to Adler, social interest is strongest in people who strive for
A. success.
B. personal gain.
C. superiority.
D. inferiority.
23. According to Adler, _______ is the bond that holds society together.
A. fiction
C. a feeling of incompleteness
D. social interest
B. creative power.
C. subjectivity of perception.
D. social interest.
A. social interest
B. creative power
C. subjectivity of perception
D. fictional finalism
A. fictional goals.
B. creative power.
C. safeguarding tendencies.
E. psychic conflict.
29. Adler believed that maladjusted people
30. According to Adler, which factor does NOT describe maladjusted people?
C. exaggerated goals
32. According to Adler's theory of abnormal development, the goals of neurotic people
B. are actually realistic, but their attempts to reach them are not.
33. Adler held that children who received love and affection from their parents typically develop
tendencies differs in
A. completely conscious.
B. completely unconscious.
C. sometimes conscious.
D. used by everyone.
Gemeinschaftsgefühl.
aggression. A third is
A. regression.
B. fixation.
C. social interest.
D. withdrawal.
E. early recollections.
B. superiority feelings
C. creative power
D. fictional finalism
A. excuses
B. depreciation
C. accusation
D. self-accusation
E. withdrawal
Freud's notion of
A. sublimation.
B. fixation.
C. progression.
D. repression.
E. regression.
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A. moving backward
B. standing still
C. hesitating
D. constructing obstacles
E. excuses
fundamentally different.
being manly.
A. masculine protest.
B. sexist imperative.
D. gender excuse.
to
superiority.
D. is fearful of authority.
family constellation is
B. gender of siblings.
C. spacing of siblings.
D. number of siblings.
B. early recollections
C. free association
D. hypnosis
early recollections
A. are forgotten.
personality.
personality.
future.