This is the organization of the individual’s distinguishing character traits, attitudes, and habits. Individual’s total intellectual, physical, emotional and social equipment.
Personality
What two factors greatly influence an individual’s behavior and development?
(A) Heredity
(B) Environment
This factor is represented by the genes transmitted from parents to offspring at the moment of conception. It can affect one’s personality indirectly.
Heredity
This factor is represented by all the stimuli that the individual is exposed to from conception to death.
Environment
What role does heredity play in development?
It determines the individual’s capacity.
What role does environment play in development?
It determines how capacities are developed.
How is heredity compared to “capital”?
It provides the individual’s basic resources.
What determines how this “capital” is used?The environment.
The environment.
This is known as the irrational or unconscious part of the personality containing the primitive drives.
ID
At what level does the ID operate?
Entirely at the unconscious level (Hence, it is not governed by either time, space, or logic) .
What does the ID constantly seek?
It is constantly demanding pleasure seeking aggressive outlets and may be characterized as animal in man.
ID is also delineated as.
PLEASURE PRINCIPLE (It dominates the personality at birth).
How is infant behavior related to the ID?
It shows strong emotional drives, lack of control, and desire for immediate satisfaction.
This is known as the conscious self which deals with reality. It is developed as reality is encountered.
EGO (Also known as the reality principle).
How does an individual learn to control primitive drives?
Through contact and repeated experiences with the outside world.
What does learning to conform to social demands involve?
Controlling or delaying the satisfaction of primitive emotional drives.
What is emotional maturity?
The ability to delay gratification and adapt behavior to reality.
What principle replaces the pleasure principle with maturity?
The Reality Principle.
Which part of personality adopts the reality principle?
The Ego.
Why is the superego in man critical?
Because it censors the portion of one’s personality which tends to check the socially unacceptable urges of Id.
This is the third structural component of personality, developed as the ego internalizes social and cultural norms.
Superego (Also known as the Moral Principle)
What does the superego represent?
Represents our moral and social values and considered as the censor of our personality.
What are the factors that influence a man’s superego?
(A) Unhealthy parent-child relationship (deprivation of parental love, over protection of the child, over strict parents, and family quarrels and inconsistencies)
(B) Loss of confidence in authority
(C) New norms and trends in society
(D) School
(E) Religion
(F) Mass Media
In psyche, this is known as the overthinking and acting level, where the material is readily recalled and applied to the environment.
Consciousness
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Module 01: Introduction to Psychiatric Nursing23
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Module 02: The Legal and Ethical Context of Mental Health59
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Module 3: Personality32
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Module 04: Psychosocial/Psychosexual Theories26
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Module 05: Building a Trusting Relationship0
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Module 06: Glossary66
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Module 07: Dynamics of Behavior Patterns and Symptoms16
