Charlotte suffers from intense anxiety. How might Freud explain this anxiety? In your answer, describe the different parts of the personality from a Freudian perspective, and how these parts of the personality interact to produce anxiety.
What will be an ideal response?
Freud suggests that behavior results from the interaction of three subsystems in personality: the id (source of instinctual drives, the pleasure principle), the ego (mediator between the demands of the id and the external world, the reality principle), and the superego (conscience, internalization of societal morals, and taboos). Inner (intrapsychic) conflicts arise when these three make incompatible demands on the individual. Freud suggests three types of anxiety: reality, neurotic, and moral anxiety. The ego handles anxiety either rationally or with ego-defense mechanisms. GRADING RUBRIC: 10 points total, 2 points each for explanation of the id, ego, and superego, 4 points for explanation of how these interact to produce anxiety.
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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
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a. circashift b. phaselag c. jetlag d. zeitgeber
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A. There were not as many sophisticated statistical tests in those days. B. They had to calculate the factor analyses by hand. C. Their data set was limited. D. all of the above