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EPPP Psychology

Category - Social and Cultural Bases of Behavior

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Neo-Freudians (also known as social psychologists) studied the impact of social and cultural factors on personality development. Harry Stack Sullivan focused on interpersonal theory and proposed three modes of existence in childhood development. Which of those modes is marked by temporal sequence as the only conception of causality?

Prototaxic
Parataxic
Syntaxic
Chronotaxic

Explanation

Answer: B - According to Sullivan, the parataxic mode, the second stage of infant development, is marked by the experience of sequential sensations that convey some sense of causality. Sullivan attributes transference to parataxic distortion.

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