AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -superego, in the psychoanalytic theory of Sigmund Freud, the latest developing of three agencies (with the id and ego) of the human personality. The superego is the ethical component of the personality and provides the moral standards by which the ego operates.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -The superego operates on the morality principle. It is the moral compass, telling people what is right and what is wrong.

Detailed explanation-4: -Freud proposed that the mind is divided into three components: id, ego, and superego, and that the interactions and conflicts among the components create personality (Freud, 1923/1949). According to Freudian theory, the id is the component of personality that forms the basis of our most primitive impulses.