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Attitude |
learned tendency to respond to an object in a consistently favourable or unfavourable way |
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Avoiding type |
an unhealthy person who lacks the confidence to confront problems or avoids them/ignores them |
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Birth order effect |
Adler's belief that how each child is treated by parents depends on the child's order of brith - birth order is an important part of personality development |
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Confluence theory |
the intellectual maturities of children growing up in the same families flow together over time in their influence on each other - changing most when new siblings arrive |
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creative self |
the ability to create actively your own destinies and personalities |
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fictional finalism |
imagined goal that guides a person's behaviour "also called the guiding self ideal" |
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Getting type |
unhealthy person who attains personal goals by relying on other people to help |
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Individual Psychology |
Adler's theory that seeks to understand the behaviour of each person as a complex, organized entity. |
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masculine protest |
an attempt by an individual (male or female) to compensate for feelings of inferiroity by acting as if superior to others |
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organ inferiroity |
biologically based defect that gives rise to feelings of inadequacy |
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overcompensation |
exaggerated attempts by individuals to overcome their feelings of inferiority by acting as though they are superior to others |
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Ruling type |
an unhealthy person who strives for personal superiority by trying to exploit and control others |
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social interest |
innate tendency in human beigns to help and cooperate with one another as a means of establishing a harmonious and productive society |
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Socially Useful type |
a healthy person who actively and courageously confronts or solves his/her own problems in accordance with social interest |
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Superiority |
striving to attain perfection |
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Personal Superiority |
seeking satisfaction at the expense of others, Adler considered this Harmful |
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Superiority by means of Perfection |
striving for fulfillment of individual potential through helping others and being helped by them; Adler considered this healthy |
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Technological position |
the belief that goals determine behaviour; behaviour is directed and shaped by a designing force |
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