Sullivan Flashcards

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Saw personality as an energy system (tensions and energy transformations)

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Interpersonal theory

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2
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A potentiality for action that may or may not be experienced in awareness

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Tensions

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3
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2 types of tensions

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needs and anxiety

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4
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Tensions brought on by biological imbalance between a person and the physiochemical environment both inside and outside of an organism; conjunctive tension

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Needs

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5
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The most basic interpersonal need

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Tenderness

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6
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Needs: Arise from a particular area of the body

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Zonal needs

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7
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Needs: overall well-being of a person

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General needs

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8
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Excess energy transformed into consistent characteristic behaviors

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Dynamisms

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9
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A type of tension that is disjunctive and have no consistent actions for its relief

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Anxiety

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10
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The chief disruptive force blocking the development of healthy interpersonal relations

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Anxiety

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11
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A complete absence of anxiety or tension

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Euphoria

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12
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Energy transformation become organized as typical behavior patterms that characterize a person throughout a lifetime; akin to traits or habit patterns

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Dynamisms

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13
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The disjunctive dynamism of evil and hatred; a feeling of living amog one’s enemies

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Malevolence

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14
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The conjunctive dynamism marked by a close personal relationship between 2 ppl of equal status

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Intimacy

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15
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The isolating dynamism; a self-centered need that can be satisfied in the absence of an intimate interpersonal relationship; powerful during adolescence

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Lust

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16
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A consistent pattern of behaviors that maintains people’s interpersonal security by protecting them from anxiety

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Self-system

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17
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The most complex dynamism

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Self-system

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18
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The principal stumbling block to favorable changes in personality

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Self-system

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19
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Reduce feelings of anxiety or insecurity that result from endangered self-esteem and inconsistency of our experiences with our self-system

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Security operations

20
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2 types of Security operations

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Dissociation and selective inattention

21
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Includes all experiences that we block from awareness

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Dissociation

22
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Involves blocking only certain experiences from awareness

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Selective inattention

23
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People acquire certain images of self and others throughout the developmental stages

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Personifications

24
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Personification: infant’s vague representation of not being properly fed

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Bad-mother

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Tender and cooperative behaviors of the mothering one; develop after bad-mother
Good-mother
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Building blocks of self-personification
me personification
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3 Me personifications
``` bad me (punishments) good me (rewards) Not-me (dissociate or selectively inattend) ```
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Unrealistic traits or imaginary friends that children invent to protect self-esteem
Eidetic personification
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3 levels of cognition
Prototaxic, parataxic, syntaxic
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Experiences that are impossible to put into words or to communicate to others
Prototaxic level
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Experiences that are prelogical and nearly impossible to accurately communicate to others; cause and effect relationship between 2 events that occur coincidentally
Parataxic level
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Illogical conclusion that a cause and effect relationship exists between 2 events in close temporal proximity
Parataxic distortion
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Experiences that can be accurately communicated to others
Syntaxic level
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Threshold periods are more crucial than the stages themselves
Stages of development
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A time when child receives tenderness from the mothering one while also learning anxiety through an empathic linkage with the mother
Infancy
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Dual personifications of the mother fused into one; have imaginary playmate
Childhood
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Attempts to act like or sound like significant authority figures
Dramatization
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Strategies to avoid anxiety and fear-provoking situation by remaining occupied with an acitivity that has earlier been proved useful
Preoccupation
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Begins with the need for peers of equal status and when one finds a single chum to satisfy need for intimacy
Juvenile era
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At this time, children should learn how to compete, compromise and to cooperate
Juvenile era
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A time for intimacy and process of becoming a social being; most crucial stage
Preadolescence
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Mistakes made during earlier stages can be overcome during this period, but mistakes during this period are difficult to surmount during later stages
Preadolescence
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Development during this stage is ordinarily marked by a coexistence of intimacy with a single friend of the same gender and sexual interest in many persons of the opposite gender; turning point in personality development
Early adolescence
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Fusion of intimacy and lust toward the same person happens at this period; self-discovery period
Late adolescence
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At this stage, a person establishes a love relationship with at least one significant other person
Adulthood
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All _____ has an interpersonal origin and can only be understood with reference to a person's social environment.
Psychological disorders