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Dreaming
Physiological & Psychological
theories
- Recorganisation of Mental
structures
- REM sleep & Dreaming=
reorganising of schemas ( Ornstein
1986)
- Accommodating new info
- REM increases when complex
tasks learnt
- May explain why REM descreases with
age
- REM sleep & Dreaming=
reorganising of schemas ( Ornstein
1986)
- Explanations of dreaming
- Psychological theories
- Ego defence (Freud)
- Problem solving ( webb &
cartwright)
- Ego defence (Freud)
- Physiological theories
- Revers learning ( Crick & Mitchison)
- activation synthesis ( Hobson & McCarly
- Revers learning ( Crick & Mitchison)
- Diffrences
- emphasis on subjective VS objective features
of dreaming
- assumptions about meaningfulness of dreaming
experiences
- emphasis on subjective VS objective features
of dreaming
- Psychological theories
- what are dreams
- Freud 1900
- Dreams as wish fulfilment
- How does this explanation link back to the
assumptions of the psychodynamic approch
- Ego defence
- Weakening of ego
- Unconscious ideas
impinge work by the
ego
- Dream work by the ego
- Manifest & latent dream
content
- Weakening of ego
- Freud 1900
- Psychoanalysis therapy
- developed by Frued
- Based often unaware of the
influences of the unconsious
- Catharis
- Insight
- Main Features
- patient talk about LATENT
context of dream
- Therapist uncover the
MANIFEST context
- done in context of
person's own lif and
experiences
- Therapist will provide few
possible interpretations but
patient will pick the
explanation
- patient talk about LATENT
context of dream
- developed by Frued
- Problem solving
- Subjects dream content is significant
- disagree with the meaning is hidden behind
symbolism
- suggest direct relationship
between dream content &
problems from waking life
- Dreaming allows mind to form new assocations
to help solve problems
- Subjects dream content is significant
- Psychological theories
- Main predictions
- Brain system involved with emotion will be active,
those involved with rationality will not
- Dreams will reflect current problems
- dreams will provide solutions
- Dreams will be remebered
- Brain system involved with emotion will be active,
those involved with rationality will not
- Main predictions
- physiological theories
- Activation synthesis model
- Hobson & McCarley 1977
- dreaming is by-product of brain activity
during REM sleep, which is carried out
for brain restration
- memory and emotion became
activated in sleep
- The frontal cortex synthesized a story to make
sense of it.
- Dreams are a by-product & inherently
meaningless ( Solms & Turnbill 2007
- Dreams are brain driven
- Motor cortex highly active- but switched off
- Activation synthesis model
- Physiological theories
- Reverse learning
- Brain takes alot of infromation during the day
not all info is important
- during dreaming this infromation (parastic
info) is cleared out allowing effective access
to inportant info
- Dreaming is a meaning by-product of this process
- Brain takes alot of infromation during the day
not all info is important
- Main predictions
- Dreams will be meaningless & bizarr
- Dreams will be quickly fogotten
- Mammals that do not have REM sleep will
have larger brains
- Dreams will be meaningless & bizarr
- Reverse learning
- Evaluation physiological
- Dreams & REM now known not to be synoymous
- Revers learning ( Crick & Mitchison 1983)
- During waking brain takes in alot of info not all of which is important info ( we
dream to forget)
- During waking brain takes in alot of info not all of which is important info ( we
dream to forget)
- Dreams & REM now known not to be synoymous
- Evaluation of psychoanalatic theory
- some evidance for the psychodynamic explanations of
dream ( Solms 2000)
- however much of the ideas are untestable and
obsession with sex
- some evidance for the psychodynamic explanations of
dream ( Solms 2000)
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