Adler proposed the concept of social interest to define:

a. strategies the ego uses to defend itself.
b. states of growth toward which self-actualizers evolve.
c. the innate potential to cooperate with others.
d. the dominant or ruling attitude in people.


ANS: C
FEEDBACK: Adler believed that getting along with others is the first task we encounter in life. He described this as the concept of social interest, which is the individual's innate potential to cooperate with other people in order to achieve personal and societal goals.

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