PSYC 2450 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Phallic Stage, Immanence, Moral Reasoning

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2450
• Professor: Karl Hennig

Document Summary

Experience pride, shame and guilt depending on the context of the situation. The idea is that morally mature persons do not submit to societies dictates because they expect tangible rewards for complying or punishments for transgressing. Internalization: the shift from externally controlled actions to conduct that is governed by internal standards and principles. Mature personality has three components: id (immediate), ego (rational) and the superego (conscious) -> more details on page. Freud"s theory of oedipal morality the superego develops during the phallic stage where children are said to experience an emotional conflict with the same sex parent and have an incestuous desire towards the opposite sex parent. Because girls will not develop a fear of castration as strong as boys will, they have a weaker superego. Newer ideas about the early development of the conscious. It seems that children may begin to form a conscious as toddlers if they are securely attached.