AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -It is the moral principle of the Freudian personality structure. It shows the behavior from the combination of all the interactions between personality structures. It is referred as the “little devil” wherein all negative aspects of the personality structure lives. Ego, ID and Superego should maintain balance.

Detailed explanation-2: -The ego is the organized part of the personality structure that includes defensive, perceptual, intellectual-cognitive, and executive functions. Conscious awareness resides in the ego, although not all of the operations of the ego are conscious.

Detailed explanation-3: -Id, Ego, and Superego. 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).

Detailed explanation-4: -In his famous psychoanalytic theory, Freud states that personality is composed of three elements known as the id, the ego, and the superego. These elements work together to create complex human behaviors.

Detailed explanation-5: -EGO: For Freud, the ego is “the representative of the outer world to the id” ("Ego and the Id” 708). In other words, the ego represents and enforces the reality-principle whereas the id is concerned only with the pleasure-principle.