The document discusses Harry Stack Sullivan's interpersonal theory and the three levels of cognition: prototaxic, parataxic, and syntactic. Prototaxic experiences are preverbal and impossible to communicate. Parataxic experiences are personal and prelogical and can only be communicated in a distorted form. Syntactic cognition involves meaningful interpersonal communication through logical thinking and shared language. The document provides examples of each level of cognition.

1. DYNAMISM
Prepared by: Drixler John S. Tapere
Instructor: Mrs. Mariza S.Balatero

2.  What is Prototaxic, parataxic, and
syntactic?
 Levels of cognition refer to ways of perceiving,
imagining, and conceiving. Experiences on the
prototaxic level are impossible to communicate;
parataxic experiences are personal, prelogical,
and communicated only in distorted form; and
syntactic cognition is meaningful interpersonal
communication.
SULLIVAN: INTERPERSONAL
THEORY

3.  What is Prototaxic Level
 Experiences that are impossible to put into
words or to communicate to others are called
prototaxic. Newborn infants experience images
mostly on a prototaxic level, but adults, too,
frequently have preverbal experiences that are
momentary and incapable of being
communicated.

4.  What is Parataxic Level
 Experiences that are prelogical and nearly
impossible to accurately communicate to others
are called parataxic. Included in these are
erroneous assumptions about cause and effect,
which Sullivan termed parataxic distortions.

5.  What is Syntactic Level
 the highest stage in experiencing the world,
characterized by consensual validation, the
development of logical, reality-oriented
thinking, and the expression of ideas in a
commonly accepted language.

6. Thank you 😊😊