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Redwolflake15

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Wanda was the hardest working student in her school. Her constant efforts were rewarded at graduation when she received an award as the university's best math student. She confessed at that time that in elementary school she had failed math and was told by her teacher that she should pick an occupation that did not require her to work with numbers. What might Alfred Adler have said about Wanda?
 
  A. Wanda is the exception to the rule, in that she should have instead displayed an inferiority complex.
  B. She most likely is a first born child.
  C. Her striving for achievement resulted from her earlier feelings of inferiority.
  D. She achieved because she never saw herself as inferior, regardless of what happened to her in elementary school.

Question 2

Which of the following is correct about Adler's concept of striving for superiority?
 
  A. A strong striving for superiority is most likely to develop in children who see their superiority over others very early in life.
  B. Striving for superiority was one of many equally important motivational forces Adler used to explain achievement behavior.
  C. Weak and helpless children are unlikely to develop a strong sense of striving for superiority.
  D. Striving for superiority has its roots in a child's perception of personal inferiority.



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Answer to Question 1

C

Answer to Question 2

D





 

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