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1
The early life of Harry Stack Sullivan was marked by
A)loneliness and isolation.
B)a strong ambition to become famous.
C)a close relationship with his three sisters.
D)childhood diseases that left him unable to walk for several years.
2
The main feature of Sullivan's personality theory is its emphasis on
A)middle age.
B)sexual development.
C)self fulfillment.
D)interpersonal relations.
E)a collective unconscious.
3
Key concepts in Sullivan's theory are interpersonal relations and
A)defense.
B)aggression.
C)anxiety.
D)conscious drives.
E)integration.
4
Sullivan identified two principal kinds of tensions:
A)needs and anxiety.
B)sexual and interpersonal.
C)tenderness and toughness.
D)prototaxic and parataxic.
5
To Sullivan, the most basic interpersonal need is
A)love.
B)tenderness.
C)self-actualization.
D)acceptance.
6
Unlike anxiety, needs are
A)isolating dynamisms.
B)integrative or productive.
C)disintegrative or disjunctive.
D)the chief disruptive forces in interpersonal relations.
7
Sullivan called needs that originate from a particular area of the body
A)zonal needs.
B)general needs.
C)body dynamisms.
D)physical personifications.
8
According to Sullivan, a well-fed infant in deep sleep is probably experiencing
A)empathy.
B)euphoria.
C)lust.
D)a dream.
E)nothing.
9
Euphoria is defined by Sullivan as
A)a disruptive force in interpersonal relations.
B)an undifferentiated mode of cognition.
C)an isolating dynamism.
D)a magical link between mother and child.
E)none of the above.
10
Sullivan saw anxiety as
A)a disruptive force in interpersonal relations.
B)an undifferentiated mode of cognition.
C)an isolating dynamism.
D)a positive force in the mother/child relationship.
11
Energy transformations organized into characteristic behavior patterns are
A)tensions of need.
B)dynamisms.
C)tensions of anxiety.
D)zonal needs.
E)general needs.
12
In Sullivan's theory, malevolence is
A)the feeling of living among friends
B)the dynamism of evil and hatred.
C)a conjunctive dynamism.
D)all of the above.
E)a and b only.
13
Which of the following is an isolating dynamism?
A)safety
B)lust
C)intimacy
D)the self-system
E)tenderness
14
Sullivan's statement, "Once upon a time everything was lovely, but that was before I had to deal with people," is an expression of
A)malevolence.
B)intimacy.
C)euphoria.
D)dissociation.
E)selective attention.
15
The most complex and inclusive of all dynamisms is
A)lust.
B)the self-system.
C)love.
D)tenderness.
E)the malevolent transformation.
16
A pet dog could meet one's needs for
A)tenderness.
B)intimacy.
C)malevolence.
D)self-fulfillment.
E)all of the above.
17
The self-system
A)regulates and evaluates behavior.
B)is an anti-anxiety system.
C)evolves from the malevolent transformation.
D)develops during late adolescence.
E)both a and d are correct.
18
Intimacy is restricted to tender feelings one has for
A)parents or parental figures.
B)authority figures outside the family.
C)the therapist during participant observation.
D)others of similar or equal status.
E)a person of the other sex.
19
These personifications take the form of imaginary traits attributed to significant others or of imaginary people invented to protect self-esteem.
A)syntaxic.
B)eidetic.
C)uncanny.
D)malevolent.
20
Experiences that are consensually validated and that can be symbolically communicated to others are
A)prototaxic.
B)parataxic.
C)syntaxic.
D)disjunctive.
E)isolating.
21
Same-sex chumships and the development of intimacy characterize this stage of develop.
A)adulthood.
B)juvenile era.
C)preadolescence.
D)early adolescence.
E)late adolescence.
22
Lust marks the beginning of
A)the juvenile era.
B)preadolescence.
C)adolescence.
D)late adolescence.
E)adulthood.
23
Sullivan's concept of humanity is best summarized in this statement.
A)"Everyone is much more simply human than otherwise."
B)"The life of humans is short, brutish, and nasty."
C)"The average person lives a life of quiet desolation."
D)"The purpose of life is pleasure."





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