Harry Stack Sullivan's Interpersonal Model

Question 1

Behavior is motivated by needs to avoid & satisfy
needs.

Answer 1

HARRY STACK SULLIVAN - INTERPERSONAL MODEL

Question 2

personality is shaped almost entirely by one’s
relationships with other people

Answer 2

HARRY STACK SULLIVAN - INTERPERSONAL MODEL

Question 3

unable to communicate
experiences; common among infants and newborns

Answer 3

PROTOTAXIC LEVEL

Question 4

– unable to accurately
communicate experiences to others

Answer 4

PARATAXIC LEVEL

Question 5

able to accurately communicate
experiences to others; developed at age 12-18
months

Answer 5

SYNTAXIC LEVEL

Question 6

Period from birth until with syntaxic language

Answer 6

INFANCY

Question 7

AUTISTIC LANGUAGE is common

Answer 7

INFANCY

Question 8

Relationship with mother includes two opposing
forces: tenderness and anxiety

Answer 8

INFANCY

Question 9

BEGINNING – with syntaxic language

Answer 9

CHILDHOOD

Question 10

END – need for playmates of equal status

Answer 10

CHILDHOOD

Question 11

RELATIONSHIP – with mother, who is now
differentiated from other persons who nurture the
child

Answer 11

CHILDHOOD

Question 12

Development of IMAGINARY PLAYMATES

Answer 12

CHILDHOOD

Question 13

BEGINNING – need for peers of equal status

Answer 13

JUVENILE

Question 14

END – need for chum, or a single best friend

Answer 14

JUVENILE

Question 15

Children learn how to COMPETE, COMPROMISE,
and COOPERATE.

Answer 15

JUVENILE

Question 16

BEGINNING – need for best friend

Answer 16

PREADOLESCENCE

Question 17

END – eruption of lust (age 8-9)

Answer 17

PREADOLESCENCE

Question 18

Most crucial stage

Answer 18

PREADOLESCENCE

Question 19

Rectification of earlier mistakes (stage of
perfection)

Answer 19

PREADOLESCENCE

Question 20

Errors made in this stage are nearly impossible to
overcome in later life

Answer 20

PREADOLESCENCE

Question 21

Formation of same-gender or cross-gender
CHUMSHIPS

Answer 21

PREADOLESCENCE

Question 22

 Attraction with opposite sex

Answer 22

EARLY ADOLESCENCE

Question 23

Development of best friends (same gender)

Answer 23

EARLY ADOLESCENCE

Question 24

May confuse lust with love and develop sexual
relationships that are devoid of true intimacy

Answer 24

EARLY ADOLESCENCE

Question 25

Start at any time after about age 16 or when a
person is able to feel both intimacy and lust
toward the same person

Answer 25

LATE ADOLESCENCE

Question 26

Stable pattern of sexual activity and the growth of
the syntaxic mode

Answer 26

LATE ADOLESCENCE