What events, according to Freud, lead up the development of the superego?
What will be an ideal response?
Ans: As infants, children see their parents as objects of love and aggression. Almost immediately, the children find that many of their emotional attachments are inappropriate, and they transfer the feelings into themselves. The children learn how to act like their parents.
Learning Objective: 4-1: Identify the founders and historical contexts of the psychoanalytic tradition.
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: The Id, the Ego, and the Superego
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What was G.Stanley Hall’s first field of graduate training?
a. psychology c. philosophy b. the ministry d. medicine
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a. individualism b. communism c. collectivism d. socialization