Harry Stack Sullivan's Interpersonal Model Flashcards
Behavior is motivated by needs to avoid & satisfy
needs.
HARRY STACK SULLIVAN - INTERPERSONAL MODEL
personality is shaped almost entirely by one’s
relationships with other people
HARRY STACK SULLIVAN - INTERPERSONAL MODEL
unable to communicate
experiences; common among infants and newborns
PROTOTAXIC LEVEL
– unable to accurately
communicate experiences to others
PARATAXIC LEVEL
able to accurately communicate
experiences to others; developed at age 12-18
months
SYNTAXIC LEVEL
Period from birth until with syntaxic language
INFANCY
AUTISTIC LANGUAGE is common
INFANCY
Relationship with mother includes two opposing
forces: tenderness and anxiety
INFANCY
BEGINNING – with syntaxic language
CHILDHOOD
END – need for playmates of equal status
CHILDHOOD
RELATIONSHIP – with mother, who is now
differentiated from other persons who nurture the
child
CHILDHOOD
Development of IMAGINARY PLAYMATES
CHILDHOOD
BEGINNING – need for peers of equal status
JUVENILE
END – need for chum, or a single best friend
JUVENILE
Children learn how to COMPETE, COMPROMISE,
and COOPERATE.
JUVENILE
BEGINNING – need for best friend
PREADOLESCENCE
END – eruption of lust (age 8-9)
PREADOLESCENCE
Most crucial stage
PREADOLESCENCE
Rectification of earlier mistakes (stage of
perfection)
PREADOLESCENCE
Errors made in this stage are nearly impossible to
overcome in later life
PREADOLESCENCE
Formation of same-gender or cross-gender
CHUMSHIPS
PREADOLESCENCE
Attraction with opposite sex
EARLY ADOLESCENCE
Development of best friends (same gender)
EARLY ADOLESCENCE
May confuse lust with love and develop sexual
relationships that are devoid of true intimacy
EARLY ADOLESCENCE
Start at any time after about age 16 or when a
person is able to feel both intimacy and lust
toward the same person
LATE ADOLESCENCE
Stable pattern of sexual activity and the growth of
the syntaxic mode
LATE ADOLESCENCE
