PSYC 101 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Word Association, Waking Life, Sigmund Freud

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 101
• Professor: Mark Lam

Document Summary

Content and function of dreams are not definitively understood. Manifest content: superficial images, events, and experience in dreams often masks or obscures latent content. Latent content: unconscious material; wishes, anxieties, fantasies, etc. the meaning" of a dream. Have more understanding of dreams because we understand sleep better. All mammals experience rem sleep, all believed to dream. Problem-solving: dreams simple describe thinking in a different biochemical/physiological state; allow for continued problem solving, etc. Creative insight: opportunities for new ideas to be formed. Emotional discharge: release of built up emotions. Memory consolidation: smooth narrative of dreams contributes to linking and consolidation of memories. Sensory clean-up: dreams result from unimportant sensory information. Even if the source is random noise, our minds are still piecing together that noise in a somewhere coherent way. How we piece together that information may offer insight. Continuity hypothesis: dreams reflect/mirror waking life, we dream about our waking life experiences.