Deck 3: Self Psychology

Question 1

Adler disagreed with Freud regarding

A) humans being victims of their drives.
B) an emphasis on sexuality in personality development.
C) the nature and function of dreams.
D) all of the above
E) B and C only

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Of the Adlerian personality priorities, which is the healthiest priority exemplifying the most social interest?

A) Pleasing
B) Control
C) Comfort
D) Superiority
E) none of the above

Answer 2

E

Question 3

In Adlerian counseling, encouragement

A) is comparable to praise.
B) begins in the first counseling session.
C) is comparable to positive reinforcement.
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Adler's ideas about striving for superiority included

A) an individual's need for competence, belonging, and significance.
B) lifestyle typologies or priorities designed to secure superiority.
C) the idea that behavior is goal-directed.
D) strategies to move from a "felt minus" to "felt plus" position.
E) all of the above

Question 5

Effective Adlerian counselors

A) teach, collaborate, and encourage without assuming responsibility for change.
B) induce the client to face problems in accordance with solutions that have worked with other clients.
C) maintain an expert role/image with their clients.
D) do most of the work in therapy so as not to push or stress their clients.
E) mainly work with the unconscious aspects of self.

Question 6

The four phases of Adlerian counseling are

A) relationship development, lifestyle assessment, reorientation, and renewal.
B) introduction, social history/family assessment, insight, and application.
C) relationship development, investigating lifestyle, understanding, and reorientation.
D) rapport, interpretation, reparetning, termination
E) none of the above

Question 7

Concerning resistance, Adlerian counselors believe that

A) resistance occurs when there is a misalignment of client and counselor goals.
B) resistance often manifests itself in the form of safeguarding mechanisms.
C) resistance is always maladaptive and interferes with the counseling process.
D) A and B only
E) B and C only

Question 8

Adlerian counselors believe that

A) clients are as helpless as they believe themselves to be.
B) clients sometimes want their counselors to confirm that they are sick and stuck.
C) they lack compassion if they challenge struggling clients to take responsibility for mistaken beliefs.
D) A and C only
E) none of the above

Question 9

Five philosophy students are arguing about Adlerian psychology. All are claiming to understand the concept of phenomenology. Which student is the most correct?

A) "What I think about is the most important."
B) "What I interpret about what I perceive is the most important."
C) "What I can objectively perceive is the most important."
D) "What I perceive about what you perceive is the most important."
E) "What I objectively perceive about what you think is the most important."

Question 10

Private logic

A) is most often grounded in common sense and rational thought.
B) is composed of lifestyle goals, hidden reasons, and immediate goals.
C) can be determined only in the context of dream analysis.
D) all of the above
E) A and B only

Question 11

According to the text authors, which of the following is not true about style of life?

A) Its foundation is basic beliefs about self, others, and the world.
B) It is a set of consistent strategies for achieving superiority.
C) A person finishes developing it during adolescence.
D) A person uses private logic in developing it.
E) All of the above are true of style of life.

Question 12

Which of the following is not what Adlerians believe about inferiority?

A) Feelings of inferiority are inborn in every human infant.
B) Feelings of inferiority are an inevitable result of the human condition.
C) Someone with an inferiority complex escapes responsibility for the tasks of life while safeguarding self-esteem.
D) Feeling inferior is not abnormal, though it may be problematic.
E) All of the above are what Adlerians believe about inferiority.

Question 13

According to the Adler, maladjusted clients

A) are considered discouraged, not mentally ill.
B) may pursue superiority with a decreased sense of social interest.
C) may resort to safeguarding techniques to manage threats to their self-esteem.
D) all of the above
E) A and C only

Question 14

Adlerian counselors are interested in how well each client meets the five life tasks of

A) love, friendship, social conscience, work, and physical strength.
B) Self awareness, intimacy, work, social responsibility, and spirituality.
C) self, financial stability, spirituality, love, and work.
D) fun, work, marriage, and friendship (amity)
E) love, self, friendship, work, and spirituality.

Question 15

Which of the following is not part of understanding a client's lifestyle?

A) exploring and confirming the client's lifestyle typology, or central theme
B) understanding how the client meets/manages the five central life tasks
C) discovering and exploring the client's private logic
D) evaluating the extent to which genetics determine the client's style of life
E) understanding the influence of environment on the client's personality development

Question 16

The most fundamental motive is to move from a sense of inferiority to one of superiority, which includes

A) love, belonging, and competence.
B) belonging, significance, acceptance.
C) competence, belonging, and significance.
D) love, significance, and acceptance.
E) acceptance, love, and belonging.

Question 17

Adler described which concept as the best indicator of mental health and adjustment?

A) social interest
B) goal attainment
C) self actualization
D) authenticity
E) being

Question 18

"Teleology" refers to

A) responsible, creative.
B) purposeful, goal-oriented.
C) unique, subjective.
D) holistic, indivisible.
E) social embeddedness.

Question 19

Adler called his theory of personality "Individual Psychology" because

A) he wanted to emphasize individuals' sole responsibility for their lives.
B) he wanted to emphasize holism (the indivisibility of the personality into component parts)
C) he wanted to emphasize the conscious, as opposed to the unconscious, of the individual
D) he wanted to only focus on individual counseling.
E) none of the above