CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

LEARNING THEORIES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The EGO
A
Develops at around 1 year of age and is the decision maker
B
Is the part of personality we are born with and is primitive
C
Develops around the age of 4 and is our sense of right and wrong
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The ego begins to develop during the first three years of a child’s life. Finally, the superego starts to emerge around age five.

Detailed explanation-2: -The superego develops during the first five years of life in response to parental punishment and approval. This development occurs as a result of the child’s internalization of his parents’ moral standards, a process greatly aided by a tendency to identify with the parents.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sigmund Freud died 80 years ago this week, and his 1923 study, The Ego and the Id, which introduced many of the foundational concepts of psychoanalysis, entered the public domain earlier this year.

Detailed explanation-4: -Freud’s personality theory (1923) saw the psyche structured into three parts (i.e., tripartite), the id, ego and superego, all developing at different stages in our lives.

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