The Part of the Personality That Operates on the Reality

question 253

Multiple Choice

The part of the personality that operates on the reality principle is the __________.

• A) superego
• B) ego
• C) id
• D) eros

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Definitions:

Defense Mechanism

Unconscious psychological strategies utilized by individuals to cope with reality and to maintain self-image.

Psychosexual Development

Freud's theory that childhood development occurs in a series of fixed psychosexual stages, each focused on erogenous zones that shape personality.

Anal Phase

The second stage in Freud's psychosexual development, focusing on bowel and bladder elimination and control issues.

Self-Serving Bias

The common tendency to attribute positive events to one's own character but attribute negative events to external factors.