PSY 1101 Chapter 3: Chapter 3 psy 1101

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1101
• Professor: Jenna Boulanger

Document Summary

Chapter 3 psy 1101: dreams refer to the stream of images, acions, and feelings experienced while in rem sleep, many theories have been formulated to explain why we dream: Freud"s wish-fulillment theory: a dream"s manifest content is a censored and symbolic version of the inner conlict present in the dream"s latent content; Informaion-processing theory: dreams help sort out and process the day"s events and consolidate them into memory; Physiological funcion theory: dreaming may promote neural development and preserve neural pathways by providing the brain with simulaion; Cogniive development theory: dreams draw on our knowledge and understanding of the world, mimicking reality: acivaion-synthesis theory: rem sleep triggers neural acivity; and dreams are accidental side-efects, all mammals must sleep in order to survive; Sea mammals must constantly be in moion in order not to sink; The highly hypnoizable 20 percent: these people seem to be more easily absorbed in imaginaive aciviies and are able to totally focus on a task.