Concepts, Goals, and Motivation
Infer, Super, and Defects
Social Interest, Community, and Mental Health
B Order, Parenting, & Family Dynamics
Personality Types and Behaviors
100

The belief that the individual’s goals direct his or her behavior is called

What is teleology?

100

According to Adler, feelings of inferiority can be:

What is largely constrictive or destructive ?

100

In Adler’s writing, after he severed his personal relationship with Freud, Adler assumed that human beings had strong needs:

What is aggressive and all powerful?

100

According to Adler, the person who desires to maintain the status quo is the:

What is first-born?

100

For Adler, prime examples of the ruling type were:

What is Juvenile delinquents, suicidal individuals, and drug addicts ?

200

In Adler’s view, all individual’s motivations

What is can not occur without the perception of goals?

200

If Billy is crippled permanently in a car accident, Adler would say that it is not the physical defect itself that would facilitate or hinder his movement toward psychological health but:

What is his attitude towards it

200

The person with a strong social interest is very likely to be:

What is empathetic?

200

In Adler’s view, the person most likely to be politically conservative is the:

What is first-born?

200

According to Adler, which type typically uses their charms to persuade others to help them?

What is getting type?

300

In Adler’s view, the position that Adler takes concerning goals is that they are:

What is Determinants of much of our behavior?

300

In examining feelings of inferiority in college students, research by Strano and Petrocelli showed that students with:

What is normal feelings of inferiority had the highest GPA's

300

In his earliest writings, Adler claimed that the final goal of our struggle was to be:

What is attain perfection or completion ?

300

In Adler’s view, the father in a family:

What is must treats wife as an equal?

300

According to Adler, which type typically tries to reduce feelings of anxiety by acting in anti-social ways?

What is rulling type?

400

Adler maintains that the attainment of perfection involves overcoming:

What is Resistance with which the environment confronts the organism?

400

Adler felt that women were placed in an inferior position by society and that they often tried to:

What is overcome feelings of inadequacy by imitating masculine behavior?

400

In Adler’s view, neurotics typically:

What is have mistaken life-styles?

400

In discussing the implication of birth order for personality development, Adler stated that:

What is it was the unique set of experiences within the family which has important implications for development?

400

Which type typically is self-absorbed and engages frequently in day dreaming?

What is avoiding type?

500

Adler’s theory:

What is has strong heuristic value ?

500

According to Adler, lesbianism was an extreme manifestation of:

What is the masculine protest

500

Adler maintained that dreams:

What is provide is with a glimpse into the future?

500

According to recent research studies, alcoholics tend to be:

What is youngest children in families ?

500

Cheating and lying may become ways of:

What is ensuring the maintenance or the enhancement of one's person success?