Psychodynamic Approach - Assumption 3: Tripartite Personality

Question 1

Describe our personalities according to the tripartite personality assumption

Answer 1

3 parts
- id
- ego
-superego

Question 2

Describe the id

Answer 2

• primitive biological part of mind
• present at birth
• consists of basic biological impulses
• drives on the pleasure principle
• we want adrenaline and pleasure, NOT displeasure

Question 3

Describe the ego

Answer 3

• aims to gratify id’s impulses with what is realistically possible
• develops at 2 years of age
• reality principle

Question 4

Describe the super ego

Answer 4

• judges is actions are right or wrong
• develops at 4 years of age
• internalised representation of the same sex parents
• works on the morality principle
• violating your super egos standards causes anxiety/guilt

Question 5

What is the job of the ego

Answer 5

Mediate id and superego

Question 6

Which part of the brain is the id

Answer 6

Unconscious

Question 7

Which part of the brain is the ego

Answer 7

Conscious

Question 8

Which part of the brain is the superego

Answer 8

Preconscious

Question 9

What’s the example from psychology

Answer 9

• schizophrenia
• they have lack of reality —> ego wasn’t fully developed when they were a child
• therefore as adult = lack of reality = would behave in that way because of how their personality has developed.