EDUC 323 Chapter Notes -Columbia University, Dcf Interframe Space, Superiority Complex
20 Feb 2014
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Educ 323- ch4 individual psychology: background, adler (founder of indiv psychology ip) from bienna. Became a physician, progressive ideas about need for equality of men and women (influenced by his wife) Special interest in bettering social conditions (best characteristic was interest and sympathy with the common man ) Member of social democratic movement (social reformist movement) Became freud"s student (?) tho others (maslow) said adler denied being follower of freud. Psychological practice developed out of medicine (which provides purposeful viewpoint which is necessary to understand psychological facts) When first conceive goal take on all characteristics consistent w/it: basic philosophy: Indiv creates life path but that vreativity enables him to change path (and ultimate goal) at any point. Not important what you"re born with, but rather how you use it. Believed that indiv"s perceptions (not some objective external criterion) determine views of reality.
