The Members of the Solar System

question 14

Multiple Choice

The members of the solar system

• A) came from space and were captured by the sun.
• B) came into being at the same time as the sun did.
• C) were formed from material ejected by the sun after it came into being.
• D) were formed from dark matter.

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Definitions:

Reality Principle

A mechanism functioning within the conscious and unconscious that weighs the costs and benefits of an action before deciding to act.

Ego

In the realm of psychoanalytic theory, this refers to the aspect of one's personality that balances the desires of the id, the moral guidelines of the superego, and the practicalities of the real world.

Electra Complex

A psychoanalytic theory proposing a girl's psychosexual competition with her mother for possession of her father.

Freud

Psychoanalysis was founded by Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist, as a method of treating psychopathology through conversational therapy between a psychoanalyst and a patient.