Question

According to Freud, to reduce anxiety, avoid punishment, and maintain parental affection, children identify with parents, internalizing their standards of right and wrong, and thus form the:_________
a) ego.
b) alter ego.
c) id.
d) superego.

Answer 1

Answer:

d) superego.

Explanation:

• The superego is the ethical component that is provided by the moral standards on which the ego operates and the criticisms, prohibitions, and inhibition of the personal consciousness

• And the positive aspirations and ideas are represented by the one's idealized self-images and his ego deals. And is one of the distinct psychic apparatus defined in Sigmund Freud's model.