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Personality Ch. 4
Individual Psychology (Adler) Ryckman 10e
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| attitude | Learned tendency to respond to an object in a consistently favorable or unfavorable way. |
| avoiding type | An unhealthy person who lacks the confidence to confront problems and avoids or ignores them. |
| birth-order effects | Adler's belief that how each child is treated by parents depends on the child's order of birth within the family and that, in consequence, birth order is an important correlate of personality development. |
| confluence theory | Theory which maintains the intellectual maturities of children growing up in the same families flow together over time in their influence on each other, changing most profoundly when new offspring join the sibship. |
| creative self | Term used by Adler to reflect his belief that people have the ability to create actively their own destinies and personalities. |
| fictional finalism | Imagined goal that guides a person's behavior;also called the guiding self-ideal by Adler n his later writings. |
| getting type | An unhealthy person who attains personal goals by relying indiscriminately on others for help. |
| individual psychology | Theory advanced by Adler that seeks to understand the behavior of each person as a complex, organized entity. |
| masculine protest | Attempt by an individual, male or female, to compensate for feelings of inferiority by acting as though superior to others. |
| overcompensation | Exaggerated attempts by individuals to overcome their feelings of inferiority by actin as though they are personally superior to others. |
| ruling type | An unhealthy person who strives for personal superiority by trying to exploit and control others. |
| social interest | Innate tendency in human beings to help and cooperate with one another as a means of establishing a harmonious and productive society. |
| socially useful type | A healthy person who actively and courageously confronts and solves his or her problems in accordance with social interest. |
| style of life | The individual's distinctive personality patter, which is basically shaped by the end of early childhood. |
| superiority | The striving to attain perfection. Adler categorized superiority into two types: Personal superiority (unhealthy) & Strivings for superiority in the sense of perfection (healthy) |
| teleological position | The belief that goals determine behavior, or, more generally, that behavior is directed and shaped by a designing force. |
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