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Understanding Human Behaviour

The psychoanalytic perspective and Freud's theory of personality

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Central claim of the psychoanalytic perspective, three parts into which Freud divided the personality and ego and its function in Freud's model.

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Who founded the psychoanalytic perspective in psychology?

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State the central claim of the psychoanalytic perspective.

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Name the three parts into which Freud divided the personality.

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    Who founded the psychoanalytic perspective in psychology?

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    Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist working from the 1890s until his death in 1939, founded the psychoanalytic perspective.

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    State the central claim of the psychoanalytic perspective.

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    The psychoanalytic perspective claims that adult behaviour is driven largely by unconscious conflicts and by experiences in early childhood.

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    Name the three parts into which Freud divided the personality.

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    Freud divided the personality into the id, the ego and the superego.

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    Describe the id and the principle Freud said it works on.

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    The id is the unconscious, instinctive part of the personality present from birth, and Freud argued it works on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate satisfaction of its urges.

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    Describe the ego and its function in Freud's model.

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    The ego is the largely conscious, rational part of the personality that Freud said works on the reality principle, finding socially acceptable ways to satisfy the demands of the id.

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    What is the superego, and where did Freud say it came from?

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    The superego is the moral part of the personality containing the conscience and the ego-ideal, and Freud claimed a child internalises it from parents and society at around the age of five.

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