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Understanding Human Behaviour
The psychoanalytic perspective and Freud's theory of personality
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Overview
Central claim of the psychoanalytic perspective, three parts into which Freud divided the personality and ego and its function in Freud's model.
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
State the central claim of the psychoanalytic perspective.
Name the three parts into which Freud divided the personality.
Questions from this subtopic
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Who founded the psychoanalytic perspective in psychology?
Model answer
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.
Model answer
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.
Model answer
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.
Model answer
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.
Model answer
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?
Model answer
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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