In Class 1-26 Flashcards
Example of ancient approach
Native americans- if you dream something good is going to happen youdon’t talk about it. If you dream something bad is going to happen you make t happen.
Ancient approach
- dreams come from external sources
- dreams are real events
- dreams are profetic
- dreams contain good or bad messages
Freuds psychoanalytical approach to dreaming
Dreams are psycologucaly motivated symboliclly discused representations of repressed thoughts or unconscious desires
Frued characteristics of dreams
- visual images and speech
- thought in inmediate situations
- manifest content (dream content) and latent content (what it all means)
Frued how dreams are produced
- Production of Latent dream thoughts (unconscience)
- Dream works- visual representation, displacemnt, secondary revision
- Psychic censor
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Stages of sleep
Awake (beta), drowsy (alpha), stage 1 (theta), stage 2 (theta with sleep spendals), stage 3&4 (progressively more delta waves), REM
1,2,3,4, 3,2,1 REM
Epyphanominon
Dreams are a by product of REM
Hobson and McCarley’s activation
Dreams are completly random.
David Floulke’s cognitive theory of dreams
Brain make sense of brain firing
David Foulke’s dream charactoristics
- Dreams are involuntary mental events
- Te source of dreams lie on what we know
- Dreams draw on dissociated elements of memory and knowledge they’re creative