Interpersonal Theory: Harry Stack Sullivan Flashcards

1
Q

The first American to construct a comprehensive personality theory, believed that people develop their personality within a social context. Without other people, _ contended, humans would have no personality.

A

Harry Stack Sullivan

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Like Freud and Jung, Sullivan saw personality as an _____ system. Energy can exist either as tension (potentiality for action) or as actions themselves (energy transformations).

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energy

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Beginning in infancy and continuing throughout the various developmental stages, people acquire certain images of themselves and others.

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Personification

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That is, unrealistic traits or imaginary friends that many children invent in order to protect their self-esteem. Sullivan believed that these imaginary friends may be as significant to a child’s development as real playmates.

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Eidetic Personifications

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Prototaxic, Parataxic, and Syntaxic

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Levels of Cognition

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Levels of Cognition: The earliest and most primitive experiences of an infant take place on a _____. Because these experiences cannot be communicated to others, they are difficult to describe or define.

In adults, _____ experiences take the form of momentary sensations, images, feelings, moods, and impressions.

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Prototaxic Level

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Levels of Cognition: _____ experiences are prelogical and usually result when a person assumes a cause-and-effect relationship between two events that occur coincidentally.

Personal, prelogical, and communicated only in distorted form; candy and please

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Parataxic Level

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This conclusion is a _____, or an illogical belief that a cause-and-effect relationship exists between two events in close temporal proximity.

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parataxic distortion

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Levels of Cognition: Experiences that are consensually validated and that can be symbolically communicated take place.

Meaningful interpersonal communication.

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Syntaxic Level

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  1. Infancy 0-2 nanay
  2. Childhood 2-6 parents
  3. Juvenile Era 6-8.5 kalaro
  4. Preadolescence 8.5-13 single chum
  5. Early Adolescence 13-15 several chum
  6. Late Adolescence 15 lover
  7. Adulthood
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Stages of Development

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Sullivan believed that all psychological disorders have an interpersonal origin and can be understood only with reference to the patient’s _____ environment.

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social

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______ is one such dynamic that can have a negative impact on children’s well-being. _____ is the act of dwelling on a negative event or negative aspects of an otherwise neutral or even positive event and is generally considered to be harmful as it is associated with an increase in depression.

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Rumination

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