After reading Chapter 3, you should be able to:

1. Distinguish between striving for superiority and striving for success.
2. Describe the role of subjective perceptions in Adler's theory of personality.
3. Explain how seemingly contradictory behaviors may reflect a single goal of striving for superiority.
4. Define social interest and give examples of what it is and what it is not.
5. Explain organ dialect and give examples of how it is expressed in a person's behavior.
6. Define causality and teleology and discuss Adler's teleological approach to personality.
7. Define style of life and discuss various methods of identifying a person's style of life.
8. List and describe three types of Adlerian safeguarding tendencies.
9. Discuss Adler's ideas on birth order.
10. Compare and contrast Adler's view of women with that of Freud.
11. Summarize recent research on early recollections.
12. Critique Adler's ideas as a scientific theory.