PSYC 338 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Reinforcement, Classical Adlerian Psychology, Superiority Complex
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We start small and work our way up. Perfection, not pleasure, is the goal of life inferiority complex: psychological condition that exists when a person is overwhelmed by. Compensation feelings of inferiority to the point at which nothing can be accomplished: making up for a weakness, such as an organ inferiority, by emphasizing functions that substitute for the weakness. Superiority complex; striving for superiority/perfection: superiority complex, psychological condition that exists when a person concentrates too much on his or her own need to succeed while ignoring the needs of others. Style of life; four basic lifestyles; faulty lifestyle: four basic lifestyles socially useful (constructive/active) Person exhibiting a lifestyle containing a healthy amount of social interest (not mistaken: getting (constructive/passive) Person exhibiting the mistaken lifestyle that expects everything to be given to him/her by others. (lacks social interest: dominant (destructive/active) Dominates and rules people: avoiding (destructive/passive)
