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Who was the Austrian medical doctor and later psychotherapist who founded the school of individual psychology?
Alfred Adler
Who proposed that contributing to others was how an individual feels a sense of worth and belonging?
Alfred Adler
Who coined the term inferiority complex?
Alfred Adler
Success in the "life tasks" described by Adler depend on what?
Cooperation
With what did Adler argue human personality could be explained?
Teleology
What personality type in Adler's scheme has a lot of social contact and makes changes for the good (outgoing and active)?
Socially useful
What personality type in Adler's scheme strive for power and are willing to manipulate situations and people, anything to get their way?
Ruling/dominant
What did Alfred Adler propose is how an individual feels a sense of worth and belonging in family and society?
Contributing to others
What is the really hard way to say social interest/community feeling?
Gemeinschaftsgefuhl
What was the isolating element that was part of Adler's early work and that he argued played a key role in personality development?
The inferiority complex
Adler's idea that the individual unconsciously works to convert feelings of inferiority to superiority or completeness is an example of explaining things with what?
Teleology
What is the danger with typology (an act that Adler opposed)?
To gaze reductively (to lose sight of the individual's uniqueness)
What type of person in Adler's scheme is someone who has developed a shell around themselves which protects them, but they must rely on others to carry them through life's difficulties?
Getting/leaning
When getting/leaning type people are overwhelmed, they develop symptoms like phobias, obsessions, compulsions, anxiety, hysteria, amnesia, and so on, that are all typically thought of as what generally?
Neurotic symptoms
What type of person in Adler's scheme hates being defeated and may be successful, but took no risks to get there?
Avoiding