Sunday, May 17, 2015

Psychology Unit VI: Dreams

DREAMS

  • sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping person's mind
Manifest Content
  • remembered story-line
Latent Content
  • underlying meaning



Why Do We Dream?
  • Freud's Wish - Fulfillment Theory: dreams are the key to understanding our inner conflicts, ideas and thoughts that are hidden in our unconscious
  • Information Processing Theory: dreams act to sort out and understand the memory that you experience that day, REM sleep does increase after stressful event
  • Activation Synthesis Theory: neural activity (at night), dreams may be a way to make sense of that activity

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