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lindiwe

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In Adler's view, the process of overcoming inferiority feelings:
 
  a. decreases in adulthood.
  c. begins in infancy.
  b. is genetically determined.
  d. results in unsettled conflicts.

Question 2

All motivation to strive and succeed comes from:
 
  a. attempts to compensate for inferiorities.
  c. organic strengths.
  b. the attempt to resolve sexual conflicts.
  d. the superiority complex.



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Answer to Question 1

ANS: C
FEEDBACK: Adler proposed that inferiority feelings are the source of all human striving. Individual growth results from compensation, from our attempts to overcome our real or imagined inferiorities. This process begins in infancy.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: A
FEEDBACK: Adler proposed that inferiority feelings are the source of all human striving. Individual growth results from compensation, from our attempts to overcome our real or imagined inferiorities. Throughout our lives, we are driven by the need to overcome this sense of inferiority and to strive for increasingly higher levels of development.



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