Author Question: Summarize how Leak and Christopher interpret the id, ego, and superego within the evolutionary ... (Read 64 times)

drink · **on:** Jun 21, 2018

Summarize how Leak and Christopher interpret the id, ego, and superego within the evolutionary framework.

What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

All of the following are among the approaches to assessing personality discussed in this book EXCEPT

A) existential.
B) humanistic.
C) biological.
D) philological.
E) neoanalytic.

LP · **Reply #1 on:** Jun 21, 2018

Answer to Question 1

Leak and Christopher suggest that the ego (consciousness) is the behavioral management system for which the id and superego provide motivation. There are two types of motivation: Selfish and group-relevant; both have had adaptive value for the species. The id reflects adaptation to the nonsocial environment, where competition for resources is intense and individualistic; the superego represents tendencies that evolved in response to selection pressures that developed when our ancestors took up group living.

Answer to Question 2

D