In Adler's view, neurotics typically:
a. have mistaken life styles
b. selfish genes
c. are concerned with the welfare of their immediate families
d. are very aware of their goals
Question 2Adler maintains that the attainment of perfection involves overcoming:
a. aversive persons that one meets in life
b. hardships of poverty, neglect, and other unfavorable circumstances
c. resistances with which the environment confronts the organism
d. the superiority drive inherited through one's birth order
Question 3Cheating and lying may become ways of:
a. maintaining the status quo regarding one's place in society
b. ensuring the maintenance or the enhancement of one's personal success
c. gaining the upper hand in a dialogue between equals
d. developing mechanisms to handle the rigors of competition
Question 4Rodgers' criticizes Zajonc's model of intellectual development by arguing that:
a. later borns are always smarter than first-borns, no matter what Zajonc thinks
b. later borns have IQs that are not very high
c. there are many variables other than birth order that could be used to explain and refute Zajonc's claim that first-borns are more developed intellectually than later borns
d. only a person's socioeconomic status can be used to show the poor intellectual development of first-borns
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