PSYC 370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Birth Order, Superiority Complex, Inferiority Complex
19 Oct 2017
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Proposed that we have memories of childhood that affect our personality (due to his near death illness) felt inferior to his brother and other children because he was healthier. He believed that the social realm of life (external) as important to the psychology of humans as the internal world of thoughts and dreams. Defaced but didn"t destroy the psychoanalytic movement. Inferiority: individual growth is the result of compensation(motivation to overcome inferiority and to strive for higher levels of development) for inferiority. Feeling of inferiority begin in infancy (motivate humans to strive and grow) Social interest: a person"s innate potential to cooperate with others to achieve person and societal goals: first task of life is cooperation community feeling, mother has the most critical role in developing the child"s social interest. Birth order is a major social influence on personality development same family, different environment: siblings in the same family have different social environments.
