Sullivan

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Interpersonal theory

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Tensions

Question 3

2 types of tensions

Answer 3

needs and anxiety

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Needs

Question 5

The most basic interpersonal need

Answer 5

Tenderness

Question 6

Needs: Arise from a particular area of the body

Answer 6

Zonal needs

Question 7

Needs: overall well-being of a person

Answer 7

General needs

Question 8

Excess energy transformed into consistent characteristic behaviors

Answer 8

Dynamisms

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Anxiety

Question 10

The chief disruptive force blocking the development of healthy interpersonal relations

Answer 10

Anxiety

Question 11

A complete absence of anxiety or tension

Answer 11

Euphoria

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Dynamisms

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Malevolence

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Intimacy

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Lust

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Self-system

Question 17

The most complex dynamism

Answer 17

Self-system

Question 18

The principal stumbling block to favorable changes in personality

Answer 18

Self-system

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Security operations

Question 20

2 types of Security operations

Answer 20

Dissociation and selective inattention

Question 21

Includes all experiences that we block from awareness

Answer 21

Dissociation

Question 22

Involves blocking only certain experiences from awareness

Answer 22

Selective inattention

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Personifications

Question 24

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

Answer 24

Bad-mother

Question 25

Tender and cooperative behaviors of the mothering one; develop after bad-mother

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Good-mother

Question 26

Building blocks of self-personification

Answer 26

me personification

Question 27

3 Me personifications

Answer 27

bad me (punishments)
good me (rewards)
Not-me (dissociate or selectively inattend)

Question 28

Unrealistic traits or imaginary friends that children invent to protect self-esteem

Answer 28

Eidetic personification

Question 29

3 levels of cognition

Answer 29

Prototaxic, parataxic, syntaxic

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Prototaxic level

Question 31

Experiences that are prelogical and nearly impossible to accurately communicate to others; cause and effect relationship between 2 events that occur coincidentally

Answer 31

Parataxic level

Question 32

Illogical conclusion that a cause and effect relationship exists between 2 events in close temporal proximity

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Parataxic distortion

Question 33

Experiences that can be accurately communicated to others

Answer 33

Syntaxic level

Question 34

Threshold periods are more crucial than the stages themselves

Answer 34

Stages of development

Question 35

A time when child receives tenderness from the mothering one while also learning anxiety through an empathic linkage with the mother

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Infancy

Question 36

Dual personifications of the mother fused into one; have imaginary playmate

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Childhood

Question 37

Attempts to act like or sound like significant authority figures

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Dramatization

Question 38

Strategies to avoid anxiety and fear-provoking situation by remaining occupied with an acitivity that has earlier been proved useful

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Preoccupation

Question 39

Begins with the need for peers of equal status and when one finds a single chum to satisfy need for intimacy

Answer 39

Juvenile era

Question 40

At this time, children should learn how to compete, compromise and to cooperate

Answer 40

Juvenile era

Question 41

A time for intimacy and process of becoming a social being; most crucial stage

Answer 41

Preadolescence

Question 42

Mistakes made during earlier stages can be overcome during this period, but mistakes during this period are difficult to surmount during later stages

Answer 42

Preadolescence

Question 43

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

Answer 43

Early adolescence

Question 44

Fusion of intimacy and lust toward the same person happens at this period; self-discovery period

Answer 44

Late adolescence

Question 45

At this stage, a person establishes a love relationship with at least one significant other person

Answer 45

Adulthood

Question 46

All _____ has an interpersonal origin and can only be understood with reference to a person’s social environment.

Answer 46

Psychological disorders