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teleology
teleology Teleology is a way of understanding behavior as purposeful and shaped by a person’s goals and psychological motives, rather than as a purely passive response to outside influences.
Teleology is a way of understanding behavior as purposeful and shaped by a person’s goals and psychological motives, rather than as a purely passive response to outside influences. In this Adlerian sense, it highlights people as active agents whose choices are guided by aims such as belonging, control, self-consistency, superiority, goal pursuit, and avoiding failure or negative feelings.