PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Harry Stack Sullivan, Interpersonal Relationship, Femininity
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Agency: focus on the self, formation of sexparations, striving for expansion and evaluation of the self. Communion: focus on others, formation of connections, striving for contact and congregation with others. Harry stack sullivan: personality is Stripping away from people from me would make us hollow and have no personality. Interactionism by finding out their behaviour, you need to know the person + environment the person is facing. Interpersonalists behaviour is due to relationship of other people, function of relationship cannot be understood until you take other people into consideration. Wiggins circumplex: simplified leary"s circle and circle can tell us how each variable is related. Complementarity: action tends to initiate/invite/evoke a complementary response that leads to a repetition of the original action, reciprocity: for vertical axis (dominant vs submissive) if you act dominant, others will behave submissive.
