AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Freud attracted many followers who modified his ideas to create new theories about personality. These theorists, referred to as neo-Freudians, generally agreed with Freud that childhood experiences matter, but deemphasized sex, focusing more on the social environment and effects of culture on personality.

Detailed explanation-2: -Alfred Adler Adler (1937, 1956) proposed the concept of the inferiority complex. An inferiority complex refers to a person’s feelings that they lack worth and don’t measure up to the standards of others or of society. Adler’s ideas about inferiority represent a major difference between his thinking and Freud’s.

Detailed explanation-3: -Adlerian theory purports that humans are social beings and therefore all behavior is socially embedded and has social meaning (Watts, 2000b). Adler emphasized the importance of relationships and being connected to others, including the larger community in which people reside.

Detailed explanation-4: -neo-Freud·ian ˌnē-ō-ˈfrȯi-dē-ən. often capitalized N. : of or relating to a school of psychoanalysis that differs from Freudian orthodoxy in emphasizing the importance of social and cultural factors in the development of an individual’s personality.