Nursing Across The Lifespan Exam 1 Practice

Which component is the sense of right or wrong; tries to be perfect and suppresses the Id?

Id Superego Ego Conscience

Correct Answer:

Superego

Explanation:

In Freud's personality model, the superego functions as the internal moral compass. It embodies the sense of right and wrong, strives for perfection, and uses guilt or shame to guide behavior. It also suppresses the id’s primitive urges by imposing moral standards, helping you conform to what you’ve internalized as acceptable. The id is the impulse-driven pleasure seeker, and the ego mediates between the two through reality. Conscience is often described as the moral aspect within the superego, but the broader component that fits “sense of right or wrong and trying to be perfect while suppressing the id” is the superego.

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