PSYCH101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Dream Interpretation, Prenatal Development, Caffeine

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Colin Mac Leod

Document Summary

Dream analysis : mostly about sexuality and aggression. Manifest content: what person consciously remembers from the dream but this is distorted. Dream time can be much condensed or stretched out. Latent content: the true meaning of the dream, unconscious drives and wishes only determined from careful analysis. Theories of dreaming have to dream every night. if we don"t one night, we will make it up by more dreams on another night. Information processing: to work through the days experiences in memory. Activation- synthesis: dreaming are random neural activity that the brain tries to interpret nothing real happening, brain makes up a story. interpreting itself. Other animals sleep too = sleep and dreaming is deeply biological. Dreams can be controlled. e. g. if shown a fighting film vs a peaceful film before you sleep. the activity level of your dream will be influenced. not necessarily dream about the same thing but in the content of it.