AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer and Explanation: The superego is strengthened by events in one’s life that cause him or her to learn rules. For example, Freud felt that toilet training was important for the development of the superego, because it teaches children to control their instinctive urge to expel waste.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The ego mediates and balances the opposing motives and drives of the id and superego with reality.

Detailed explanation-4: -The primary action of the superego is to suppress entirely any urges or desires of the id that are considered wrong or socially unacceptable. It also tries to force the ego to act morally rather than realistically. Finally, the superego strives for moral perfections, without taking reality into account.