For Adler, if a person believes that all people are basically good, then:
a. the person will create unrealistic expectations of his or her environment.
b. this ideal will be a reality for the person.
c. the person will be concerned with instinctual satisfaction.
d. this ideal will reside in the collective unconscious.
ANS: B
FEEDBACK: Adler applied the term finalism to the idea that we have an ultimate goal, a final state of being, and a need to move toward it. The goals for which we strive, however, are potentialities, not actualities. We live our lives around ideals such as the belief that all people are created equal or that all people are basically good. Adler believed that our goals are fictional or imagined ideals that cannot be tested against reality. However, those are real to the person who holds these views.
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