2f. Dreams Flashcards
A sequence of images, emotions, and thoughts passing through a sleeping persons’ mind:
Dreams
Awakened and questioned during ___, recall of dreams is enhanced:
REM
__ out of 10 dreams have negative emotional content:
8
Who is the author of “The Interpretation of Dreams”?
Sigmund Freud
Freud said that “dreams are the ____ ___ to the knowledge of the ____ activities of the mind”:
Royal Road; Unconscious
Freud uses the ___________ perspective when he states dreams help understand __________ _________ and provide a psychic safety valve to discharge ________ _________ allowing us to express our unconscious wishes in a disguised way:
Psychoanalytic; inner conflicts; unacceptable feelings
The remembered story line or plot:
Manifest Content
The underlying unconscious message or symbolic meaning:
Latent Content
Psychoanalytical explanation in which dreams represent unconscious wishes the dreamer wants to fulfill:
Wish Fulfillment
REM sleep triggers neural activity that evokes random visual hallucinations and emotions that our brain weaves into stories:
Neural Activation Theory
Dreams help us sort out the day’s event and consolidate our memories:
Information-Processing Theory
Brain stimulation from REM sleep helps develop and preserve neural pathways:
Physiological Function Theory
Have an awareness that you are in a dream and you can control some aspects of the dream:
Lucid Dream
Freud believes only ____ people daydream:
Unhappy
Who believes occasional daydreaming is universal?
Jerome Singer
