Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Depressant, Hypnosis, Classical Conditioning

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

Document Summary

Self reported number of nightmares: nine per year. Dream logs indicated an average of 25 per year. Unconscious id; repressed wishes strive for expression: id is always desiring things, constantly craving more, can be troublesome if someone succumbs to the id, we repress the urges from the id. Ego: conscious portion: ego wants to sleep, but urges to invade consciousness, ego censors/manipulates the urges and disguises the wishes, disguised wishes will appear in dreams, royal road to the unconscious: Anxiety can be aroused: thus, content is censored and disguised. Manifest = laundered version: but manifest content contains clues . There are symbols where one thing stands for another: symbols for sexual intercourse: Activation synthesis (dreams are meaningless, a by-product of random brain activity) Dream state generator, activation: sensory, motor, and visceral neurons activated. Synthesis: cortex integrates elements, things are firing and your brain makes sense of it.