Compare the pleasure principle with the reality principle.
What will be an ideal response?
Key terms and concepts that may be included in student responses:
? The pleasure principle is a drive to maximize pleasure and minimize pain with the overall outcome of reducing psychic tension.
? The pleasure principle emerges from the id.
? The reality principle emerges from the encounter of the id (and the drive for pleasure) and the constraints imposed on it by the outside world, or reality.
? With the reality principle, a child first learns that it cannot always satisfy its wishes and impulses.
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Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)