Ben watches his mother make chocolate-chip cookies and knows she does not want him to eat any of the cookies before dinner.He is seriously tempted to help himself to a cookie or two once his mother leaves the room but decides not to because it is not right to do so.Identify Ben's Freudian structure of personality at work in this situation.

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Ben's decision not to eat the cookies despite the temptation shows that his moral compass is at work, which is the function of the superego in Freud's structural model of personality. The superego represents the moral and ethical standards that individuals internalize from society and caregivers. In this situation, Ben's superego is overriding the urges of his id (the instinctual and impulsive part of personality that seeks immediate gratification) and balancing it with the reality of the situation (ego). Therefore, option A) superego is the best choice.

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