The parent of a 4-year-old rewards and praises the child for helping a younger sibling, being polite, and using good manners

The nurse supports this use of praise related to these behaviors. These qualities are likely to be internalized and become part of which system of the personality?

a. Id
b. Ego
c. Superego
d. Preconscious


ANS: C
The superego contains the "thou shalts," or moral standards internalized from interactions with significant others. Praise fosters internalization of desirable behaviors. The id is the center of basic instinctual drives, and the ego is the mediator. The ego is the problem-solving and reality-testing portion of the personality that negotiates solutions with the outside world. The preconscious is a level of awareness from which material can be retrieved easily with conscious effort. This item relates to an audience response question.

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