Psychology 1000 Lecture 18: Lecture 18 Dreaming & Learning

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

He claims that he was dreaming and started to sleepwalk. Therefore, he should not be held accountable because he was dreaming at the time. Because dreaming and sleepwalking occur at different stages of sleep. Surveyed 220 students and measured frequency of nightmares and anxiety levels by self-reports. But dream journals may be up to 25/year. Freud would say if you dream a lot about these things, you might be repressing sexual desires. It wants to sleep, but urges invade consciousness. Urges are trying to consciousness, so ego tries to shut those urges down. Manifest laundered version (after cleaned up by ego) Cortex interprets and integrates the neuron stimulation, making them in a dream. Therefore the dream is only a side effect of random firing neurons. In dreams, there are no real perceptions we need to construct reality. We look at r to predict what happened during learning. Behaviorists are also known as black box psychologists.