AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -The superego is the ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates. The superego’s criticisms, prohibitions, and inhibitions form a person’s conscience, and its positive aspirations and ideals represent one’s idealized self-image, or “ego ideal.”

Detailed explanation-2: -The superego is composed of two parts: the conscience and the ego ideal. In a general sense, the conscience is a punitive, negative agent, and the ego ideal functions as an agent of reward. The conscience is made up of prohibitions, and includes information about things that are viewed as bad by parents and society.

Detailed explanation-3: -Definition. Conscience is the psychological faculty by which an individual becomes aware of and responds to the moral result of one’s actions. On the other hand, superego is the third component of the human psyche or personality that contains the moral attributes or the conscience and the ideal self.

Detailed explanation-4: -According to Freud, moral development proceeds when the individual’s selfish desires are repressed and replaced by the values of important socializing agents in one’s life. By a proponent of behaviorism, Skinner 1938 similarly focused on socialization as the primary force behind moral development.