Suvillan Flashcards
Sullivan conceptualized personality as an energy system, with energy existing either as ___ (potentiality for action) or as ___ ( the actions themselves).
tension and energy transformation
he divided tension into two.
needs and anxiety
Can relate either to the general well-being of a person or to specific zones, such as the mouth or genitals.
Needs
Unlike needs- which are conjunctive and call for specific actions to reduce them ___ is disjunctive and calls for no consistent actions for its relief.
Anxiety
All infants learn to be anxious through the ___ relationship that they have with their mothering one.
empathic
A complete absence of anxiety and other tensions is called.
euphoria
Sullivan used the term ___ to refer to a typical pattern of behavior
Dynamism
Sullivan believed that people acquire certain images of self and others throughout the developmental stages, and he referred to these subjective perceptions as
Personifications
During infancy children acquire three “me” personifications:
Bad me
Good me
not me
Included in these eidetic personifications are the ___ ___ that preschool-aged children often have.
imaginary playmates
Three important concepts in infancy
apathy, somnolent detachment and autistic language
in Juvenile Era there are three abilities:
compete, compromise and cooperate
the most crucial stage
Preadolescence
Puberty comes the lust dynamism and the beginning of early adolescence
Early Adolescence
It begins when a person is able to feel both intimacy and lust toward the same person.
Late adolescence
