After reading Chapter 3, you should be able to: - Distinguish between striving for superiority and striving for success.
- Describe the role of subjective perceptions in Adler's theory of personality.
- Explain how seemingly contradictory behaviors may reflect a single goal of striving for superiority.
- Define social interest and give examples of what it is and what it is not.
- Explain organ dialect and give examples of how it is expressed in a person's behavior.
- Define causality and teleology and discuss Adler's teleological approach to personality.
- Define style of life and discuss various methods of identifying a person's style of life.
- List and describe three types of Adlerian safeguarding tendencies.
- Discuss Adler's ideas on birth order.
- Compare and contrast Adler's view of women with that of Freud.
- Summarize recent research on early recollections.
- Critique Adler's ideas as a scientific theory.
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