Tripartite personality Flashcards
ID Personality (unconscious)
From birth, focuses on pleasure and satisfaction.
Allows somebody to be impulsive.
Ego personality (conscious)
Develops in childhood, awareness of reality
balances two other personalities
Superego personality (unconscious)
Morality that can be developed in childhood
normally influenced by parents
Example of ID personality
skipping school to do something more fun
Example of Ego personality
Balancing an unhealthy meal and then working out afterwards
Example of Superego personality
Having a lot of rules and regulations to follow
How ID personality effects
they can become selfish
How ego personality affects
Positively impact a person
if person has strong ego, ID will be dominant
if person has weak ego, Superego becomes dominant
How superego impacts person
If dominant, person can become over controlling