Individual Psychology Lecture Flashcards

This set of 100 flashcards covers the vocabulary and key concepts from the lecture notes on Jung and Adler, including developmental stages, assessment methods, the core principles of Individual Psychology, and applications like birth order and safeguarding tendencies.

Individual Psychology

An optimistic view of people resting on the notion of social interest and a feeling of oneness with humankind.

Social Interest (Social Influence)

The primary motivator for individuals according to Adler, emphasizing striving for success or superiority.

Teleology

The view that present behavior is shaped by a person's view of the future rather than the past.

Psychologically Healthy People

Individuals who are aware of what they are doing and why they are doing it.

Unified Personality

The concept that personality is self-consistent and all behavior is directed toward a single goal.

Subjective Perceptions

The belief that how a person perceives themselves, rather than reality, shapes their behavior.

Creative Power

The freedom for individuals to create and be responsible for their own style of life.

Striving for Success and Superiority

The single dynamic force behind people’s behavior and personality.

Feeling of Inferiority

A normal condition for all people that becomes a source of all striving, often activated by physical deficiencies at birth.

Physical Deficiency (Infancy)

The state of being dependent on a caregiver and unable to express needs, which activates inferiority feelings.

Inferiority Complex

A condition resulting from an inability to compensate for normal inferiority feelings, leading to self-demeaning views.

Superiority Complex

A condition where a person overcompensates for inferiority feelings through boasting, self-centeredness, and entitlement.

Striving for Superiority

Motivation focused on personal goals and personal superiority over others, driven by an inferiority complex.

Striving for Success

Motivation fueled by a highly developed social interest and goals beyond the self.

Social Interest (Definition)

A sense of oneness with humanity and a desire for the success of all humankind.

Utang na loob

A positive Filipino term referring to the need to return the goodness others have done, either to them or to others.

Compensation

The act of striving for superiority or success to make up for feelings of weakness or inferiority.

Innate Tendency toward Completion

The inherent drive for wholeness that pushes humans to overcome feelings of inferiority.

Don Juan Type

A negative form of compensation where a man tries to prove his manhood through countless seductions.

Fictionalism

The suggestion that people create early goals that guide their style of life and unify their personalities.

Organ Dialect

The phenomenon where a deficient body organ expresses the direction of an individual’s goal more clearly than words.

Conscious (Adler)

Thoughts understood by the individual as helpful in striving for success.

Unconscious (Adler)

The part of a goal that is not clearly formulated or understood, containing thoughts that are not helpful.

Gemeinschaftsgefuhl

The German term for social interest or community feeling.

Bayanihan

A Filipino term illustrating a feeling of oneness with the community, often seen during calamities.

Sole Criterion of Human Values

Adler's description of social interest as the only gauge for judging a person's worth.

Mother-Child Relationship

The primary origin of social interest where the mother must foster a bond of cooperation.

Father's Role in Social Interest

Demonstrating a caring attitude toward his wife and other people to set a social example for the child.

Constructive Path

A lifestyle of psychological health where individuals strive for success through cooperation and good will.

Destructive Path

A neurotic lifestyle where individuals strive for personal superiority by dominating or exploiting others.

Neurosis (Adler's definition)

An unhealthy psychological personality characterized by seeing others as enemies or obstacles.

Style of Life

A unique life plan or guiding image including goals, self-concept, and attitudes toward the world.

Dominant Style of Life

A personality type characterized by a ruling attitude and little social awareness, potentially leading to sadism or delinquency.

Getting Style of Life

The most common personality type, characterized by dependency and expecting satisfaction from others.

Avoiding Style of Life

A personality type that makes no attempt to face problems and avoids every possibility of failure.

Socially Useful Style of Life

A healthy personality type that acts in accordance with social interest and cooperates with others.

Exaggerated Physical Deficiencies

A factor in neurosis where overcompensation for inadequacy leads to lack of concern for others.

Pampered Lifestyle

The heart of neuroses, where children feel incapable of solving problems because parents do too much for them.

Neglected Lifestyle

A factor in neurosis where children feel unloved and develop suspiciousness of others.

Safeguarding Tendencies

Protective devices that allow neurotics to hide their inflated self-image and avoid public disgrace.

Excuses (Safeguarding)

A tendency typically expressed in phrases like "Yes… but" or "Only if."

Aggression (Safeguarding)

A tendency used to protect a superiority complex through depreciation, accusation, or self-accusation.

Depreciation

An aggressive safeguarding tendency where an individual undervalues others' achievements.

Accusation

An aggressive safeguarding tendency where one blames others for their own failures to seek revenge.

Self-accusation

An aggressive safeguarding tendency involving self-torture and guilt with the goal of hurting others.

Withdrawal

Halting personality development by running away from difficulties through psychological distance.

Moving Backwards

A form of withdrawal synonymous with regression, psychologically reverting to a more secure period.

Standing Still

A form of withdrawal characterized by irresponsibility and not taking any action.

Hesitating

A form of withdrawal characterized by procrastination or being compulsive.

Constructing Obstacles

Developing self-created barriers to preserve self-esteem upon overcoming them.

Family Constellations

The study of birth order and its influence on personality development.

Dethronement

The loss of undivided parental attention experienced by a first-born when a new baby arrives.

First-born Characteristics

Oriented toward the past, locked in nostalgia, and highly likely to be pessimistic about the future.

Second-born Characteristics

Competitive, ambitious, and generally optimistic about the future.

Youngest Child Characteristics

Often the pet of the family; can be high-achievers or dependent.

Only Child Characteristics

Usually mature early and manifest adult behaviors due to being the center of attention.

Early Recollections (ER)

Clues to understanding a person's final goal and present lifestyle based on accounts of early experiences.

Dreams (Adler's view)

Sources that provide clues for solving future problems, though they cannot foretell the future.

Purpose of Psychotherapy (Adler)

To enhance courage, lessen feelings of inferiority, and develop social interest.

Human Motivation (Freud vs Adler)

Freud focused on sex and aggression; Adler focused on social influences and superiority.

Determinism (Freud)

The belief that people have little choice in shaping their personality.

Causality

The Freudian belief that present behavior is caused entirely by past experiences.

Social Feeling

Another term for social interest, indicating oneness with the community.

Psychological Health (Cycle)

Striving for superiority to attain completion leading to a constructive lifestyle.

Underdeveloped Social Interest

The underlying factor in all types of maladjustments and neuroses.

Rigid Lifestyle

An inability to be flexible, often seen in neurotics with high goals and private worlds.

Social Awareness

The recognition of others' needs, which is low in the dominant style of life.

Success for all humankind

The ultimate goal of someone with high social interest.

Personal Goal (Superiority)

A goal motivated by an exaggerated feeling of inferiority or complex.

Completion

The state of wholeness that people are pulled toward in their striving force.

The Don Juan Type (Behavior)

Overcompensation to prove manhood through countless seductions.

Belief System (Fictionalism)

A created set of beliefs about how to overcome deficiencies and become strong.

Psychological Health Movement

Using feelings of inferiority positively to move toward a useful style of life.

Unity of Personality

The idea that thoughts, feelings, and actions are directed to a single purpose.

Body Language (Organ Dialect)

The idea that organs speak about pain and sickness to disclose individual opinions.

Harmony (Conscious/Unconscious)

The necessary balance between awareness and hidden goals for a healthy life.

Mankind's goal of perfection

The idealized end state that social interest strives toward through community feeling.

Potentiality (Adler term)

The status of social interest at birth; it exists but must be developed.

Early Social Environment

The critical factor in developing social interest during infancy.

Useful Style of Life

A lifestyle that contributes to the well-being of all human beings.

Destructive Lifestyle (Neurosis)

The result of striving for personal superiority and seeing others as enemies.

Life Plan

A synonym for the Style of Life or guiding image of an individual.

Creative Power Control

The force that puts an individual in control of their own life and method of striving.

Private World (Neurotics)

The isolated psychological space where neurotics set unattainable goals.