What Is the Function of the Ego

question 57

Multiple Choice

What is the function of the ego?

• A) Consistently wants to satisfy whatever desire is currently active as quickly and directly as possible
• B) To be the decision-making part of the personality that satisfies id impulses in socially acceptable ways
• C) Contains the basic drives for reproduction,survival,and aggression
• D) Overseeing the superego and making sure that it acts morally

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