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What is the term for the concept of a person's potential for action that may or may not be experienced in awareness?
What is the term for the concept of a person's potential for action that may or may not be experienced in awareness?
Tension
According to Sullivan, what are the three basic personifications?
According to Sullivan, what are the three basic personifications?
What is the most primitive level of cognition, experienced primarily in infancy?
What is the most primitive level of cognition, experienced primarily in infancy?
Sullivan's theory of personality development rests on the assumption that unhealthy development results from interpersonal conflicts and difficulties.
Sullivan's theory of personality development rests on the assumption that unhealthy development results from interpersonal conflicts and difficulties.
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What is the act of dwelling on a negative event?
What is the act of dwelling on a negative event?
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What is the disjunctive dynamism of evil and hatred?
What is the disjunctive dynamism of evil and hatred?
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What involves a close interpersonal relationship between two people of equal status?
What involves a close interpersonal relationship between two people of equal status?
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What is an isolating tendency that demands no dependence on another person for satisfaction?
What is an isolating tendency that demands no dependence on another person for satisfaction?
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According to Sullivan, what is the most complex and important dynamism in his interpersonal theory?
According to Sullivan, what is the most complex and important dynamism in his interpersonal theory?
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Sullivan believed that the "one-genus" hypothesis, which states that "everyone is much more simply human than otherwise", meant that differences in personality are more important than similarities.
Sullivan believed that the "one-genus" hypothesis, which states that "everyone is much more simply human than otherwise", meant that differences in personality are more important than similarities.
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What is the term for the most mature level of cognition?
What is the term for the most mature level of cognition?
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Which of these corresponds to the period when young people experience developing feelings of both lust and intimacy?
Which of these corresponds to the period when young people experience developing feelings of both lust and intimacy?
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Study Notes
Sullivan's Interpersonal Theory
- Developed by Harry Stack Sullivan, an American psychiatrist
- Focuses on the potential for action (tension) and how it's influenced by interpersonal relationships throughout life
- Two types of tensions: biological imbalances between a person and their environment (needs), and general needs (tenderness, zonal)
Stages of Development
- Infancy: birth to development of syntaxic language
- Childhood: development of syntaxic language
- Juvenile: need for peers
- Preadolescence: 8.5 years to adolescence
- Early Adolescence: puberty to desire for sexual love
- Late Adolescence: capable of lust and intimacy
- Adulthood: establishing relationships
Anxiety
- Diffuse and vague
- Behaviors aimed at avoiding learning from mistakes, pursuing childish security, and preventing learning from experience
Energy Transformation
- Dynamism: patterns of energy transformations (traits or behaviors)
- Malevolence: disjunctive dynamism of evil and hatred
- Intimacy: close interpersonal relationships, equal status
- Lust: isolating tendency, no need for another person
Self-System
- Most complex dynamism in Sullivan's theory
- Begins in infancy and continues throughout development, involving personifications forming the self
Personifications
- Bad Mother: anxious, malevolent
- Good Mother: calm, tender
- Me-Personifications: Bad-Me, Good-Me, Not-Me, eidetic personifications (unrealistic traits/imaginary friends)
Levels of Cognition
- Prototaxic: primitive, infancy, experiencing primarily intuitive emotions
- Parataxic: making erroneous assumptions, infancy to adulthood
- Syntaxic: most developed, mature, adults, interpersonal cognition
Psychological Disorders
- Believed they have an interpersonal origin, understood by social environment
Psychotherapy
- Participant observer approach, improving patients' interpersonal relations
Related Research
- Sullivan's interpersonal theory of personality development results from interpersonal conflicts
- Emphasizes the importance of friendship in developing healthy adults
Ruminating and Co-rumination
- Ruminating: dwelling on negative events
- Co-rumination: excessively discussing personal problems
Imaginary Friends
- Recognizes their importance, especially during childhood
Concept of Humanity
- Summed up in the one-genus hypothesis, emphasizing shared humanity over individual differences
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Explore the key concepts of Harry Stack Sullivan's Interpersonal Theory, focusing on the influence of interpersonal relationships on human development. This quiz covers stages of development from infancy to adulthood, the role of anxiety, and the dynamics of energy transformation. Test your knowledge on Sullivan's insights into human behavior and relationships.
