Question

What are the key aspects of Adler’s childhood?

What is social interest? How does social interest develop?

How did Adler view the unconscious?

What is the role of “inferiority” in Adler’s theory?

According to Adler, what is the primary motivation underlying human behavior?

What is the function of safeguarding tendencies? Describe each.

How does Adler incorporate the body into his theory of personality?

Describe the terms “organ inferiority,” “organ dialect,” and “masculine protest.”

How did Adler characterize the behavior of “maladjusted” or “neurotic” people?

How did Adler view early recollections?

Describe Dan McAdams and colleagues’ research using life narratives.

Describe Sulloway’s (1996) birth order research findings and the research studies conducted by Paulhus and colleagues.

What are the limitations of Adler’s theory? Describe Adler’s view of humanity.

What are the key aspects of Erikson’s biography?

Describe the ego, according to Erikson.

How did Erikson incorporate the epigenetic principle into his personality theory?

How did Erikson view the developmental stages of life?

Describe Erikson’s eight stages of psychosocial development, including the basic strength, psychosocial crisis, and core pathology associated with each.

What strengths and weaknesses correspond to old age according to Erikson?

Describe Erikson’s anthropological studies.

Describe Peterson’s (2006) Loyola Generativity Scale (LGS) findings.

Describe the research of Beyers and Seiffge-Krenke and how it relates to Erikson’s theory.

Answer 1

Q1.Alfred Adler was born in Vienna on February 7, 1980.

In a family of 7 children, Alfred was the second son,he often felt that his elder brother Sigmund was ahead of him in everything and that he will never be able to be like him. Thus Alfred always had a competent attitude towards his brother.

Adler often felt sick as achild.He suffered from breathing problems. He was unable to walk till he was four because of rickets.

At the age of he almost died of pneumonia.

He also lost his younger brother Rudolph when he was around 4 years old , All these incidents motivated him to join the medical field.