Conscience key words summary

Question 1

conscience

Answer 1

our sense of moral right and wrong

Question 2

synderesis

Answer 2

Aquinas’ idea of what he termed as ‘right reason’ by which a person acquires knowledge of basic moral principles, and understands that it is important to do good and avoid evil

Question 3

conscientia

Answer 3

Aquinas called this the actual ethical judgment or decision a person made

Question 4

ID

Answer 4

the unconscious self, not immediately obvious, made up of memories that have been forgotten or repressed

Question 5

Ego

Answer 5

part of the mind that is obvious to us, the conscious self

Question 6

superego

Answer 6

the moral conscience that advises the ego and regulates the id

Question 7

heteronomous morality

Answer 7

morality determined by others e.g. parents or soicety

Question 8

autonomous morality

Answer 8

morality determined by the self

Question 9

authoritarian conscience

Answer 9

our sense of moral right and wrong formed in us by authority figures whom we want to obey

Question 10

Oedipus complex

Answer 10

the sexual desire of a son for his mother and the sense of rivalry with the parent of the same sex

Question 11

Electra complex

Answer 11

the sexual desire of a daughter for her father and the sense of rivalry with the parent of the same sex

Question 12

ex cathedra

Answer 12

Roman Catholic (of the pope) pronouncing infallibility