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What are the key aspects of Adler's childhood? - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔-
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Born in Viennese suburb in 1870
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-second son of middle class jewish parents || || || || || ||
-received his medical degree in 1895 || || || || ||
-Founded the society for Individual Psychology || || || || ||
- died in scottland
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-7 children
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-as a child he was sickly at age 5 and almost died of pneunomia
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What is Social Interest? - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔- a force that binds
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society together ||
Origins of Social Interest - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔-potentiality is found in
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everyone
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-found in Mother- Infant relationship|| || || ||
-fostered by social environment || || ||
-manifests its self coopeeration with others for social advancement rather than
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for personal gain
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Importance of Social Interest - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔- Measure of || || || || || || || || ||
psychological health and maturity || || ||
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-" the sole criterion of human values and the barometer of normality
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How did Adler view the unconscious? - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔he
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believed that psychologically healthy people are usually aware of what they
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are doing and why they are doing it
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- Adler defined the unconscious as that part of the goal that is neither clearly
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formulated nor compleytely understoof by the individual || || || || || ||
What is the role of "inferiority" in Adler's theory? - CORRECT
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ANSWER(S)✔✔-the one dynamic force behind people's behavior is the || || || || || || || || ||
striving for success or superiority || || || || ||
-subjective perceptions shape behavior || || ||
-personality is unified and self consistent || || || || || ||
-social interest perspective || ||
-psychologically unhealthy individuals strive for personal superiority where as || || || || || || || ||
psychologically healthy people seak success for all humanity
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According to Adler, what is the primary motivation underlying human|| || || || || || || || || ||
behavior? - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔-he reduced it all to a single drive: the
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striving for success or superiority || || || ||
Striving for success of Superiority - CORRECT ANSWER(S)✔✔- the final goal
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of behavior
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-compensation
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-for success ||