Interpersonal Theory: Harry Stack Sullivan Flashcards
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.
Harry Stack Sullivan
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).
energy
Beginning in infancy and continuing throughout the various developmental stages, people acquire certain images of themselves and others.
Personification
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.
Eidetic Personifications
Prototaxic, Parataxic, and Syntaxic
Levels of Cognition
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.
Prototaxic Level
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
Parataxic Level
This conclusion is a _____, or an illogical belief that a cause-and-effect relationship exists between two events in close temporal proximity.
parataxic distortion
Levels of Cognition: Experiences that are consensually validated and that can be symbolically communicated take place.
Meaningful interpersonal communication.
Syntaxic Level
- Infancy 0-2 nanay
- Childhood 2-6 parents
- Juvenile Era 6-8.5 kalaro
- Preadolescence 8.5-13 single chum
- Early Adolescence 13-15 several chum
- Late Adolescence 15 lover
- Adulthood
Stages of Development
Sullivan believed that all psychological disorders have an interpersonal origin and can be understood only with reference to the patient’s _____ environment.
social
______ 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.
Rumination
