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Alfred Throws Severe Temper Tantrums in Order to Receive Attention

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Alfred throws severe temper tantrums in order to receive attention. This suggests that the tantrums might be effectively reduced by giving him attention on a(n) _____ schedule.


Definitions:

Oedipal Complex

A psychoanalytic concept proposed by Freud, suggesting that a boy experiences unconscious sexual desires for his mother and jealousy and rivalry towards his father.

Electra Complex

A psychoanalytic theory positing that a girl's psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father.

Sexual Fantasies

Sexual fantasies are mental imagery or thoughts of sexual nature that can enhance sexual desire and arousal.

Striving for Superiority

the human desire to achieve personal improvement and ascendancy as theorized by Alfred Adler in individual psychology.

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