Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Psychology

Chapter

Self and Personality

Question:
It is the source of a person’s instinctual energy. It deals with immediate gratification of primitive needs, sexual desires and aggressive impulses. It works on the pleasure principle, which assumes that people seek pleasure and try to avoid pain.
Options:
Superego
Ego
Id
Preconscious
Correct Answer:
Id
Explanation:
Id: It is the source of a person’s instinctual energy. It deals with immediate gratification of primitive needs, sexual desires and aggressive impulses. It works on the pleasure principle, which assumes that people seek pleasure and try to avoid pain.