Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Autonomic Nervous System, Classical Conditioning, Ciprofloxacin

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

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237-246: bw is on trial for murder. He claims that he was dreaming and started to sleepwalk. Therefore, he should not be held accountable because he was reaming at the time. Why: dreams and sleepwalking typically occur in different stages of sleep. Measured both frequency of nightmares and anxiety. Dream logs indicated average of 25 per year. Measured anxiety unrelated to frequency of nightmares. Freudian/psychoanalytic: unconscious id, ego is the conscious portion of your mind. Wants to sleep, but urges from the id invade consciousness: repressed wishes strive for expression, ego censors. The kinds of things that will appear in your dream: the dream is the royal road to the unconscious. Symbols where one thing stands for another: symbols for sex. Activation synthesis: dream state generator, periodic firing of pons, activates. Cortex integrates elements, trying to make sense of firing in your brain. So is there nothing special about dreaming: rem deprivation causes no ill effects.