The urge toward perfection that motivates each of us is what Adler meant by:
a. striving for superiority.
c. the masculine protest.
b. organismic valuing process.
d. the entropy principle.
ANS: A
FEEDBACK: Adler described his notion of striving for superiority as the fundamental fact of life. It is the urge toward perfection or completion that motivates each of us.
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