Week 6- Are People Becoming More Narcissistic?

Question 1

Pessimistic individuals

Answer 1

Being pessimistic means that you tend to see the worst parts of things or think the worst will happen. A pessimistic person is one who is often seen as lacking hope and joy and is marked by disbelief or distrust. Basically, to be pessimistic means expecting the worst in all situations.

Question 2

What is Personality?

Answer 2

Personality is the unique and relatively stable ways in which people think, feel, and behave.

Question 3

There are 3 processes of Psychoanalytic Perspective on Personality which includes

Answer 3

Id, Ego, Superego

Question 4

Id

Answer 4

-Located below awareness
-Functions according to pleasure because it wants to satisfy basic drives such as hunger, thirst, self-preservation and sex

Question 5

Ego

Answer 5

-At the tip of the iceberg there’s the ego, which deals with the aspect of our personality that is governed by reality.
-the ego works according to the reality principle where it seeks to strike a deal between two parts of your mind: id and superego (Ciccarelli et al., 2013). E.g. You, caught in the middle.

Question 6

Superego

Answer 6

The superego represents the aspect of your personality that is consistent with your conscience. That is, it strives to do what is correct and acceptable by social standards