All motivation to strive and succeed comes from:
a. attempts to compensate for inferiorities.
c. organic strengths.
b. the attempt to resolve sexual conflicts.
d. the superiority complex.
ANS: A
FEEDBACK: Adler proposed that inferiority feelings are the source of all human striving. Individual growth results from compensation, from our attempts to overcome our real or imagined inferiorities. Throughout our lives, we are driven by the need to overcome this sense of inferiority and to strive for increasingly higher levels of development.
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