V. Alfred Adler

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  1. the one dynamic force behind people’s behavior is the striving for success or superiority

  2. people’s subjective perceptions shape their behavior and personality

  3. personality is unified and self-consistent

  4. the value of all human activity must be seen from the viewpoint of social interest

  5. the self-consistent personality structure develops into a person’s style of life

  6. style of life is molded by people’s creative power

enumerate the basic tenets or assumptions of adlerian theory

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compensation

a motivation to overcome inferiority

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inferiority complex

a condition developed when we are unable to compensate for normal inferiority feelings

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  1. organic inferiority

  2. spoiling (pampering)

  3. neglect

enumerate possible root causes of inferiority complex

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organic inferiority

defective parts or organs of the body that shape personality through the person’s effort to compensate for the defect or weakness

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aggressive drive

refers to the struggle toward the felt that can take the form of fighting and cruelty or striving for dominance

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masculine protest

assertion of manliness that implies greater competence, superiority, and control

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superiority striving

pertains to efforts to improve oneself and not to be better as compared with others

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superiority complex

repression of feelings of inferiority that consequently leads to arrogance, exaggerated idea of achievement

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creative self

the person strives to discover or create experiences that lead to fulfillment

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fictional finalism

notion of perfection is to finish or to make us whole; such goal is imagined

image or direction of the goal of man’s striving (vision). health people see this goal as modifiable while those who are maladaptive see this as inflexible

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