PSYC 2740 Chapter 10: Chapter 10 - Interpersonal Theories and Interpersonal Styles
15 Dec 2011
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Y our interpersonal styles and how people view our interpersonal traits can play an enormous role in life outcomes and the quality. Chapter 10: interpersonal theories and interpersonal styles of our relationships. The developmental epochs y sullivan identified 6 developmental epochs or stages that must be worked through before becoming an adult: Initially the need for security is evident in infancy and is a critical motivating factor that facilitates the developing self-system. Introduced the complementarity principle- the notion that the specific type of interpersonal behaviour expressed by one person will elicit a corresponding or supplementary behaviour from another person. Personal attributes scale y unmitigated communion: is a focus on others to the exclusion of the self. 8 octants: ambitious-dominant, gregarious-extroverted, warm-agreeable, unassuming-ingeneous, lazy-submissive, aloof-introverted, cold quarrelsome, arrogant-calculating. The authoritatian personality y adorno, frenkel-brunswick, levinson and sanford y describes theory and research on people who are high in authoritarianism y developed the california f-scale to measure authoritarianism y.
