PSY 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Psy, Barbiturate, Recreational Drug Use
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Dreams most common when brain is most active (brain activity highest during rem sleep, and during final hours of sleep) Main purpose of dreaming is wish fulfillment (gratification of unconscious desires. Desires are too unacceptable to be consciously acknowledged and fulfilled and needs) in real life. Manifest content story the dreamer reports. Latent content the disguised psychological meaning. Dream work is the process by which the latent content is transformed into the manifest content. During rem sleep, the brain bombards higher brain centers with random neural. Cortex attempts to interpret activity by creating a best fit to the pattern of. Problem-solving dream models dreams can help us find creative solutions to our. Cognitive-process dream theories focus on the process of how we dream problems and conflicts because they aren"t constrained by reality. Propose that dreaming and waking thought are produced by same brain. Dreaming requires imagery skills and other cognitive abilities that young children have not yet developed.
