Summarize the three structures of personality that Freud included as part of his psychosexual
theory of development. Define each and provide an age-related example of each one.
What will be an ideal response?
Id – includes the impulses, the biological needs and sex and aggression; immediate gratification, if
hungry, eat; infant cries for food; present at birth.
Ego – functions in accordance with reality; cognitivefunctioning; meets demands of id and superego;
meeting needs of hunger for 5 year old involves context (kitchen, kindergarten classroom, mall) and
consequences of behavior (crying, stealing, cooking, waiting).
Superego – conscience – sense of right/wrong; develops – most apparent around age 7; 8 year old
knows even if hungry when at the mall, you do not reach into food counter and ‘steal' food.
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According to Arnett, there are five major tasks of emerging adulthood. Which of the following is one of them?
a. redefining life goals b. focusing on the self c. establishing a sense of integrity d. establishing generativity within the workplace
An operational definition is one
A) that the majority of people can agree on. B) that can usually be found in the dictionary. C) in which somebody else could follow the same operations to define their terms. D) in which the operations are never really possible to carry out.