Chapter 12 - Extras and Theories

Question 1

Personality

Answer 1

The distinctive and relatively enduring ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that characterize a person’s responses to life situations

Question 2

Ego

Answer 2

the “executive” part of the personality that is partly conscious and that mediates between the impulses of the id, the prohibitions of the superego, and the dictates of reality

Question 3

Superego

Answer 3

the moral arm of the personality that internalizes the standards and values of society and serves as the person’s conscience