top #4 - sullivan: interpersonal theory

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    • When was Harry Stack Sullivan born?
      1892
    • What was Sullivan's family background?
      He was the only child of Irish Catholic farmers
    • How did Sullivan's childhood affect him socially?
      He was shy and had difficulty with peers
    • What was the nature of Sullivan's friendship at age eight and a half?
      It was with a sexually mature adolescent boy
    • How did townspeople view Sullivan's childhood friendship?
      They viewed it as homosexual
    • What academic achievement did Sullivan accomplish in high school?
      He was valedictorian
    • What scholarship did Sullivan win after high school?
      A state scholarship to Cornell
    • How did Sullivan describe the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery?
      As a "diploma mill"
    • What was lacking in Sullivan's formal education?
      Training in scientific methodology and psychiatry
    • At what age did Sullivan enter psychiatry?
      Thirty
    • Where did Sullivan establish a private practice?
      In New York
    • How many hours of personal psychoanalysis did Sullivan have?
      Three hundred hours
    • What journal did Sullivan start to publicize his views?
      Psychiatry
    • What significant role did Sullivan serve in relation to the Selective Service Board?
      Consultant
    • What social issue did Sullivan address in his work?
      Problems of African Americans
    • Where did Sullivan die?
      Paris
    • What is the basis of Sullivan's Interpersonal Theory?
      Interactions with significant others determine behavior
    • What does Sullivan emphasize in personality development?
      Importance of various developmental stages
    • How does Sullivan view anxiety?
      As interpersonal in origin and observable
    • What are security operations in Sullivan's theory?
      Interpersonal devices to minimize anxiety
    • How does Sullivan differentiate healthy and unhealthy security operations?
      Healthy increase security without jeopardizing competence
    • What are some examples of security operations described by Sullivan?
      Sublimation, selective inattention, "as if" behavior
    • What is sublimation according to Sullivan?
      Discharging feelings in acceptable ways
    • What does selective inattention involve?
      Failing to notice anxiety-causing factors
    • What does "as if" behavior mean?
      Acting out a false but practical role
    • What are dynamisms in Sullivan's theory?
      Patterns of energy transformation in relationships
    • What is the self-system according to Sullivan?
      All security operations defending against anxiety
    • What does the "Good-me" self refer to?
      Content of awareness when satisfied with oneself
    • What does the "Bad-me" self represent?
      Self-awareness organized around anxiety-producing experiences
    • What is the "Not-me" self?
      Aspects of self that cannot be acknowledged
    • What are personifications in Sullivan's theory?
      Groups of feelings and attitudes from experiences
    • How do personifications affect interpersonal relations?
      They create stereotypes that hinder relationships
    • What are the six stages of personality development according to Sullivan?
      Infancy, childhood, juvenile era, preadolescence, early adolescence, late adolescence
    • What is the focus of the infancy stage in Sullivan's theory?
      Interpersonal relationships around feeling situations
    • What is the focus of the childhood stage in Sullivan's theory?
      Healthy relationships with parents and peers
    • What is the focus of the juvenile era in Sullivan's theory?
      Relating to playmates and same-sex peers
    • What is the focus of the preadolescence stage in Sullivan's theory?
      Beginning of intimate reciprocal human relationships
    • What is the focus of early adolescence in Sullivan's theory?
      Development of lust dynamism and heterosexual patterns
    • What are the three cognitive processes described by Sullivan?
      Prototaxic, parataxic, syntaxic levels
    • What is the focus of late adolescence in Sullivan's theory?
      Integration of adult social and vocational behavior