Summarize the three structures of personality that Freud included as part of his psychosexual
theory of development. Define each and provide an age-related example of each one.
What will be an ideal response?
Id – includes the impulses, the biological needs and sex and aggression; immediate gratification, if
hungry, eat; infant cries for food; present at birth.
Ego – functions in accordance with reality; cognitivefunctioning; meets demands of id and superego;
meeting needs of hunger for 5 year old involves context (kitchen, kindergarten classroom, mall) and
consequences of behavior (crying, stealing, cooking, waiting).
Superego – conscience – sense of right/wrong; develops – most apparent around age 7; 8 year old
knows even if hungry when at the mall, you do not reach into food counter and ‘steal' food.
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The rate of motor development can vary across cultures as a result of
a. differences in evolutionary history. b. poor nutrition. c. variation in the extent to which motor development is nurtured. d. inherited differences in the skeletal system.
In the United States today, about what percent of the population continues to work part-time or return to work following retirement?
a. about 3% b. about 10% c. about 33% d. about 50%
Many researchers believe that long-term potentiation is the process underlying many, and perhaps all, forms of learning and memory
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
You predict that sleep-deprived adults will have more difficulty learning a complex task than
adults who are allowed to sleep 8 hours. Which research step is illustrated here? A) developing a good research idea B) formulating the research hypothesis C) conducting your experiment D) surveying the psychological literature