Harry Stack Sullivan

Question 1

emphasized the importance of interpersonal relations. shaped almost entirely by the relationships we have with other people

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Sullivan’s Interpersonal
Theory

Question 2

conceptualized personality as an energy system, with energy existing either as potentiality for action or as energy transformations (the actions themselves).

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Tensions

Question 3

can relate either to the general well-being of a person or to specific zones, such as the mouth or genitals.

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Needs

Question 4

disjunctive and calls for no consistent actions for its relief

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Anxiety

Question 5

refer to a typical pattern of behavior.

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Dynamism

Question 6

disjunctive dynamism of evil and hatred is called what?

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Malevolence

Question 7

The conjunctive dynamism marked by a close personal relationship between two people of equal status is called?

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Intimacy

Question 8

a self-centered need that can be satisfied in the absence of an intimate interpersonal relationship.

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Lust

Question 9

a conjunctive dynamism; pattern of behaviors that protects us against anxiety and maintains our interpersonal security

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Self-System

Question 10

grows out of infants’ experiences with a nipple that does not satisfy their hunger needs.

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Bad Mother

Question 11

allows a person to dissociate or selectively inattend the experiences related to anxiety.

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the not-me

Question 12

people often create imaginary traits that they project onto others; imaginary friends; imaginary playmates

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Eidetic Personifications

Question 13

three levels of cognition

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prototaxic
parataxic
syntaxic

Question 14

Experiences that are impossible to put into words or to communicate to others

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Prototaxic

Question 15

Experiences that are prelogical and nearly impossible to accurately communicate to others

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Parataxic

Question 16

Experiences that can be accurately communicated to others

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Syntaxic

Question 17

The period from birth until the emergence of syntaxic language ; a time when the child receives tenderness from the mothering one while also learning anxiety through an empathic linkage with the mother

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Infancy

Question 18

The stage that lasts from the beginning of syntaxic language until the need for playmates of equal status

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Childhood

Question 19

begins with the need for peers of equal status and continues until the child develops a need for an intimate relationship with a chum

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Juvenile Era

Question 20

the most crucial stage; because mistakes made earlier can be corrected this stage, but errors made during this stage are nearly impossible to overcome in later life

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Preadolescence

Question 21

a time when a person establishes a stable relationship with a significant other person and develops a consistent pattern of viewing the world.

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Adulthood

Question 21

marked by a coexistence of intimacy with a single friend of the same gender and sexual interest in many persons of the opposite gender

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Early Adolescence

Question 21

begins when a person is able to feel both intimacy and lust toward the same person; characterized by a stable pattern of sexual activity and the growth of the syntaxic mode

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Late adolescence