ID EGO AND SUPEREGO

Question 1

how is our personality divided?

Answer 1

divided into our Id, ego, superego

Question 2

What is our id, ego and superego connected to?

Answer 2

our conscious, pre-conscious and unconscious

Question 3

what is our conscious?

Answer 3

• its our present selves, our most aware state, we respond and acknowledge our surroundings

Question 4

what is our pre-conscious?

Answer 4

• part of the mind that is currently not in use
• emotions and memoires can be recalled

Question 5

what is our unsciousness

Answer 5

• our **part of the mind that is unaccessible **

Question 6

what is our id?

what does it consist of, hwp does it operate?

Answer 6

• Consists of our urges (sexual, boily needs, aggressive impulses)
• Operates with the pleasure principle for immidiate gratification
• no connection to reality

Question 7

what is our ego?

what is its task? how does it operate? what does it realize?

Answer 7

• task is to hold the id in check until conditins are appropriate
• operates with the reality principle *maximizes pleasure and minimizes consequences *
• realizes that being selfish/impulsive leads to negative results

Question 8

What is our supergo?

what is its job?, how does it operate? and what does it permit?

Answer 8

• Controls the satisfaction of the id’s impulses only permits gratification under certain conditions
• works with the morality principle tells right from wrong
• permits gratification of the id’s impulses are morally correct