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