PSY 435 – 2024 UPDATE COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS GRADE A+ EXAM
According to Adler, a person's final goal is
A) set at about age 18.
B) a creation of the creative power.
C) death.
D) shaped by heredity and environment. - (correct answer) B
Adler insisted that personality is shaped by
A) subjective perceptions.
B) birth-order.
C) early childhood experiences.
D) organ inferiorities - (correct answer) A
According to Adler, ideas that have no real existence, yet influence individuals as if they
really existed, are called
A) fictions.
B) fabrications.
C) hypotheses.
D) postulates. - (correct answer) A
The doctrine that motivation should be considered according to its final purpose or aim
is called
A) fictional imperative.
B) Gemeinschaftsgefhl.
C) causation.
D) teleology. - (correct answer) D
Alder believed that organ inferiorities
A) cause superiority personalities.
B) cause inferiority personalities.
C) bestow meaning and purpose on all behavior.
D) stimulate feelings of inferiority. - (correct answer) D
Gemeinschaftsgefuhl is usually translated as
A) style of life.
B) fictional finalism.
C) social interest.
D) organ inferiority. - (correct answer) C
,Adler was an original member of Freud's Wednesday Psychological Society.
True)
False) - (correct answer) False
As a child, Adler had an intense rivalry with
A) his mother.
B) his father.
C) an older brother named Sigmund.
D) an older sister named Anna. - (correct answer) C
For more than 30 years, Adler carried an invitation from _______ suggesting that these
two men should combine with other physicians to establish the Wednesday
Psychological Society.
A) Sigmund Freud
B) Carl Jung
C) his wife
D) William James - (correct answer) A
Individual Psychology can be considered to be
A) deterministic.
B) optimistic.
C) pessimistic.
D) neo-Freudian.
E) none of these. - (correct answer) B
To Adler, the one dynamic force behind a person's activity is
A) the striving for success or superiority.
B) organ inferiorities.
C) organ dialect.
D) feelings of superiority. - (correct answer) A
Among many differences between Freud and Adler were their attitudes toward
Americans.
True)
False) - (correct answer) True
Both Adler and Freud came from middle-class Jewish backgrounds and grew up in the
Vienna area.
True)
False) - (correct answer) True
The Wednesday Psychological Society began when Adler asked Freud and a few other
physicians to join him at his home on Wednesday evening.
True)
False) - (correct answer) False
, Most people who have read Freud and Adler agree that Adler was the better writer.
True)
False) - (correct answer) False
During the first few years after breaking from Freud's organization, Adler was unable to
write or to continue his practice of psychotherapy.
True)
False) - (correct answer) False
According to Adler, people's present behaviors are strongly influenced by their
experiences of the past.
True)
False) - (correct answer) False
Adler believed that the most important fiction is the goal of superiority or success.
True)
False) - (correct answer) True
Causality is an explanation of behavior in terms of future goals and aspirations.
True)
False) - (correct answer) False
Style of life is usually developed between the 10th and 12th years of life, according to
Adler.
True)
False) - (correct answer) False
According to Adler, the striving for success or _____ is the dynamic force behind our
actions. - (correct answer) superiority
Adler believed that people are motivated more by _____ than by reality. - (correct
answer) fictions
Consistent with Adler's final theory, healthy people strive for the _____ of all humankind.
- (correct answer) betterment
Adler frequently stated that all people come into the world _____ with physical
inferiorities. - (correct answer) blessed
Fictions are people's expectations of the _____. - (correct answer) future
Lack of _____ is the essence of maladjustment. - (correct answer) social interest
Gemeinschaftsgefühl, or _____ , refers to a positive feeling for all humanity. - (correct
answer) social interest
CORRECT ANSWERS GRADE A+ EXAM
According to Adler, a person's final goal is
A) set at about age 18.
B) a creation of the creative power.
C) death.
D) shaped by heredity and environment. - (correct answer) B
Adler insisted that personality is shaped by
A) subjective perceptions.
B) birth-order.
C) early childhood experiences.
D) organ inferiorities - (correct answer) A
According to Adler, ideas that have no real existence, yet influence individuals as if they
really existed, are called
A) fictions.
B) fabrications.
C) hypotheses.
D) postulates. - (correct answer) A
The doctrine that motivation should be considered according to its final purpose or aim
is called
A) fictional imperative.
B) Gemeinschaftsgefhl.
C) causation.
D) teleology. - (correct answer) D
Alder believed that organ inferiorities
A) cause superiority personalities.
B) cause inferiority personalities.
C) bestow meaning and purpose on all behavior.
D) stimulate feelings of inferiority. - (correct answer) D
Gemeinschaftsgefuhl is usually translated as
A) style of life.
B) fictional finalism.
C) social interest.
D) organ inferiority. - (correct answer) C
,Adler was an original member of Freud's Wednesday Psychological Society.
True)
False) - (correct answer) False
As a child, Adler had an intense rivalry with
A) his mother.
B) his father.
C) an older brother named Sigmund.
D) an older sister named Anna. - (correct answer) C
For more than 30 years, Adler carried an invitation from _______ suggesting that these
two men should combine with other physicians to establish the Wednesday
Psychological Society.
A) Sigmund Freud
B) Carl Jung
C) his wife
D) William James - (correct answer) A
Individual Psychology can be considered to be
A) deterministic.
B) optimistic.
C) pessimistic.
D) neo-Freudian.
E) none of these. - (correct answer) B
To Adler, the one dynamic force behind a person's activity is
A) the striving for success or superiority.
B) organ inferiorities.
C) organ dialect.
D) feelings of superiority. - (correct answer) A
Among many differences between Freud and Adler were their attitudes toward
Americans.
True)
False) - (correct answer) True
Both Adler and Freud came from middle-class Jewish backgrounds and grew up in the
Vienna area.
True)
False) - (correct answer) True
The Wednesday Psychological Society began when Adler asked Freud and a few other
physicians to join him at his home on Wednesday evening.
True)
False) - (correct answer) False
, Most people who have read Freud and Adler agree that Adler was the better writer.
True)
False) - (correct answer) False
During the first few years after breaking from Freud's organization, Adler was unable to
write or to continue his practice of psychotherapy.
True)
False) - (correct answer) False
According to Adler, people's present behaviors are strongly influenced by their
experiences of the past.
True)
False) - (correct answer) False
Adler believed that the most important fiction is the goal of superiority or success.
True)
False) - (correct answer) True
Causality is an explanation of behavior in terms of future goals and aspirations.
True)
False) - (correct answer) False
Style of life is usually developed between the 10th and 12th years of life, according to
Adler.
True)
False) - (correct answer) False
According to Adler, the striving for success or _____ is the dynamic force behind our
actions. - (correct answer) superiority
Adler believed that people are motivated more by _____ than by reality. - (correct
answer) fictions
Consistent with Adler's final theory, healthy people strive for the _____ of all humankind.
- (correct answer) betterment
Adler frequently stated that all people come into the world _____ with physical
inferiorities. - (correct answer) blessed
Fictions are people's expectations of the _____. - (correct answer) future
Lack of _____ is the essence of maladjustment. - (correct answer) social interest
Gemeinschaftsgefühl, or _____ , refers to a positive feeling for all humanity. - (correct
answer) social interest
