Dreaming

Question 1

Latent content

Answer 1

The meaning underlying the dream. If the symbols from the manifest content are translated by an analyst, they can reveal unconscious thoughts.

Question 2

Condensation

Answer 2

When many thoughts and elements from the unconscious are represented in the dream in one symbol.

Question 3

Displacement

Answer 3

When something that seems to be unimportant in the dream is made central, to shift attention from what is really important.

Question 4

Secondary elaboration

Answer 4

How the dreamer builds a story when telling what the dream is about, adding to and changing things, which makes analysis hard.

Question 5

Psychoanalysis

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Freud’s therapy, designed to help release unconscious thoughts

Question 6

Free association

Answer 6

A method used by Freud in psychoanalysis where the patient is encouraged to express a flow of consciousness. The process helps to uncover links which can then be interpreted

Question 7

Slip of the tongue

Answer 7

When someone uses the wrong word for something. Freud analyses these slips to help uncover unconscious thoughts

Question 8

Dream analysis

Answer 8

A method used by Freud to help uncover unconscious thoughts, by analysing dreams and uncovering symbols

Question 9

Neuron

Answer 9

A cell in the body, including in the brain, that sends information using both electrical and chemical processes

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Axon

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The ‘cable’ that leads from a cell body of a neuron down to the terminal buttons that hold the neurotransmitter

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Impulse

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The electrical signal that travels from one cell body of a neuron to the terminal buttons, where it releases a neurotransmitter

Question 12

Neurotransmitter

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A chemical at the terminal button if a neuron, which is released by the impulse and then goes into the synaptic gap

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Synaptic gap

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The gap between the dendrites of one neuron and the next

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Synaptic transmission

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What happens when one neurotransmitter released by an impulse of one neuron goes across the synaptic gap and is taken up by the dendrites of another neuron

Question 15

Activation synthesis model

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A model of dreaming proposed by Hobson and McCarty where the brain is active but no sensory information is coming into it. The brain puts the information it has together to make sense of it and this is the dream

Question 16

Random activation

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During REM sleep, when neurons are active randomly but not deliberately

Question 17

Sensory blockade

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During REM sleep, when no information enters though the senses

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Movement inhibition

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The state during REM sleep when the body is paralysed and there is no movement

Question 19

Methodology

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Refers to how psychology works, including how data are gathered. It involved considering ‘ how do we know?’

Question 20

Manifest content

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What the dream is said to be about by the dreamer- the story the dreamer tells