Chapter 4 : Individual Psychology

• Compensation means excelling in one area to make up for real or perceived deficits in another.
• Overcompensation is when a person overachieves in one area for their life to make up shortcomings in another.
• Under compensation is when a person addresses their shortcoming by overly dependent on others.
• Inferiority Complex is when a person has feelings of inadequancy or inferiority, whether real or imagined.
• Primary Inferiority - the original and normal feeling of inferiority maintained by an infant.
• Secondary Inferiority - is the inferiority feeling in the adult results when a child develops an exaggerated feeling of inferiority.
• Superiority complex is when someone acts better than others to escape feelings of insecurity.
• Superiority Complex occur when a person has the need to prove that he is more superior than he truly is.