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Manifest Content |
What the dream is said to be about by the dreamer-the story the dreamer tells. |
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Latent Content |
The underlying meaning of the dream. If the symbols from the manifest content are translated by a analysts, they can reveal unconscious thought. |
Meaning. Symbols |
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Condensation |
When many thoughts and elements from the unconscious are represented in the dream in one symbol. |
Unconscious |
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Displacement |
When something that seems unimportant in the dream is made central, to shift attention from what is really important. |
Seems unimportant |
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Secondary elaboration |
How the dreamer builds a story when telling what the dream is about, adding and changing things which makes the analysis hard. |
Add and change |
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Psychoanalysis |
Freud's therapy, designed to help release unconscious thoughts. |
Therapy |
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Front (Term) Slip of the tongue |
Back (Definition) When someone uses the wrong word for something. Freud analyses these slips to help uncover unconscious thoughts. |
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Free association |
A method used by Freud in psychoanalysis where the patient is encouraged go express a flow of consciousness. The process helps to uncover links that can be interpreted. |
Links |
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Qualitative data |
Data involving stories or attitudes |
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Valid |
Refers to findings of studies and means that they are about real life situations, real life behavior or feelings that are real |
Real life |
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Random activation |
During REM sleep when neurons are active randomly |
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Sensory blockade |
During REM sleep when no information enters through senses |
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Movement inhibition |
The state during REM sleep when the body is paralyzed and there is no movement |
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Front (Term) Methodology |
Back (Definition) Refers to how psychology works including how data is gathered. Includes "how do we know" |
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Front (Term) Aim |
Back (Definition) A statement of what the study has set out to find |
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Generisability |
If the study can be applied to other people |
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Reliability |
If the study was repeated you would get the same result |
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Privacy |
An ethical guideline |
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Ethical guidlines |
Deception Right to withdraw Informed consent Privacy Protection from harm |
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Subjective |
Where the researcher is somehow affecting the information that is gathered, perhaps by their interpretation. |
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Objective |
Where the researchers views do not affect the information that is gathered. |
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Nueron |
A cell in the body, including the brain, which sends information using both electrical and chemical processes. |
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Axon |
The "cable" that leads from a cell body of a neuron down to the terminal buttons that hold the neurotransmitter |
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Impulse |
Electrical signal that travels to the terminal buttons and releases a neurotransmitter |
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Neurotransmitter |
Chemical at the terminal buttons that is released by the impulse and then goes into the synaptic gap |
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Synaptic gap |
The gap between the dendrites of one neuron and the next |
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Synaptic transmission |
When a neurotransmitter released by an impulse goes across the synaptic gap and is taken up at the dendrites of another neuron |
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Activation synthesis model |
Hobson and McCarley. Brain puts information together to make sense of things |
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Dreamwork |
What the mind is doing whilst dreaming to keep the unconscious thoughts hidden and repressed |
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Dreamwork includes... |
Condensation, displacement, and secondary elaboration |
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Strengths of Freuds theory |
He used unique methods that were difficult to access and he gathered in depth detail about real life and listened carefully to his patients |
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Weaknesses of Frueds theory.. |
His samples were biased and mainly used middle class Vienese woman so his results weren't generalizable. He was subjective |
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Evidence for the activation synthesis model |
REM sleep happens regularly in regular patterns
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Weaknesses of the activation synthesis mkdel |
Many people recognize their dreams as being based on passed events which does not support the random activation synthesis theory Lucid dreaming does not fit as it shows dreams are controllable and not random Only 34% of 200 dreams did not make logical sense Young children under 5 have very few dreams but normal REM sleep which suggests dreams are not simply liked to REM sleep |
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Lucid dreamjnf |
When people are dreaming and they know they are dreaming |
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Evidence for the activation synthesis model |
REM sleep happens regularly in regular patterns
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Weaknesses of the activation synthesis mkdel |
Many people recognize their dreams as being based on passed events which does not support the random activation synthesis theory Lucid dreaming does not fit as it shows dreams are controllable and not random Only 34% of 200 dreams did not make logical sense Young children under 5 have very few dreams but normal REM sleep which suggests dreams are not simply liked to REM sleep |
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Lucid dreamjnf |
When people are dreaming and they know they are dreaming |
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Oedipus complex |
The idea that a boy from about the age of 4 will have unconscious feeling for his mother and want his father out the way, though then fears his father and feels guilty too. |
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Insomnia |
When someone cannot sleep or stay asleep. |
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Hyperinsomnia |
When people feel very sleepy throughout the day. |
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Evidence for the activation synthesis model |
REM sleep happens regularly in regular patterns
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Weaknesses of the activation synthesis mkdel |
Many people recognize their dreams as being based on passed events which does not support the random activation synthesis theory Lucid dreaming does not fit as it shows dreams are controllable and not random Only 34% of 200 dreams did not make logical sense Young children under 5 have very few dreams but normal REM sleep which suggests dreams are not simply liked to REM sleep |
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Lucid dreamjnf |
When people are dreaming and they know they are dreaming |
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Oedipus complex |
The idea that a boy from about the age of 4 will have unconscious feeling for his mother and want his father out the way, though then fears his father and feels guilty too. |
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Insomnia |
When someone cannot sleep or stay asleep. |
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Hyperinsomnia |
When people feel very sleepy throughout the day. |
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Narcelepsy |
When people have sudden attacks of sleep in the day. It is a brain disorder |
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Circadian rhythm disorders |
Affects the body clock. Can keep shifting sleep time. Treated with Bright lights at certain times |
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Parasonmias |
When people wake up with night terrors |
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Evidence for the activation synthesis model |
REM sleep happens regularly in regular patterns
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Primary sleep disorder |
They are not related to any other problems |
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Secondary sleep disorders |
Stem from other problems such as jet lag or stress. |
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Weaknesses of the activation synthesis mkdel |
Many people recognize their dreams as being based on passed events which does not support the random activation synthesis theory Lucid dreaming does not fit as it shows dreams are controllable and not random Only 34% of 200 dreams did not make logical sense Young children under 5 have very few dreams but normal REM sleep which suggests dreams are not simply liked to REM sleep |
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Lucid dreamjnf |
When people are dreaming and they know they are dreaming |
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Oedipus complex |
The idea that a boy from about the age of 4 will have unconscious feeling for his mother and want his father out the way, though then fears his father and feels guilty too. |
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Insomnia |
When someone cannot sleep or stay asleep. |
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Hyperinsomnia |
When people feel very sleepy throughout the day. |
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Narcelepsy |
When people have sudden attacks of sleep in the day. It is a brain disorder |
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Circadian rhythm disorders |
Affects the body clock. Can keep shifting sleep time. Treated with Bright lights at certain times |
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Parasonmias |
When people wake up with night terrors |
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REM sleep disorder |
Muscle paralysis is not active so the dreamer can have violent moment in REM sleep |
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Evidence for the activation synthesis model |
REM sleep happens regularly in regular patterns
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Primary sleep disorder |
They are not related to any other problems |
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Secondary sleep disorders |
Stem from other problems such as jet lag or stress. |
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Cognitive behavioral therapy |
When individuals look and there thinking and change how they perceive things as well as their behavior |
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Acupuncture |
Inserting needles in related parts of the body and can be used to help the body clock to readjust |
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Weaknesses of the activation synthesis mkdel |
Many people recognize their dreams as being based on passed events which does not support the random activation synthesis theory Lucid dreaming does not fit as it shows dreams are controllable and not random Only 34% of 200 dreams did not make logical sense Young children under 5 have very few dreams but normal REM sleep which suggests dreams are not simply liked to REM sleep |
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Lucid dreamjnf |
When people are dreaming and they know they are dreaming |
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Oedipus complex |
The idea that a boy from about the age of 4 will have unconscious feeling for his mother and want his father out the way, though then fears his father and feels guilty too. |
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Insomnia |
When someone cannot sleep or stay asleep. |
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Hyperinsomnia |
When people feel very sleepy throughout the day. |
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Narcelepsy |
When people have sudden attacks of sleep in the day. It is a brain disorder |
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Circadian rhythm disorders |
Affects the body clock. Can keep shifting sleep time. Treated with Bright lights at certain times |
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Parasonmias |
When people wake up with night terrors |
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REM sleep disorder |
Muscle paralysis is not active so the dreamer can have violent moment in REM sleep |
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Evidence for the activation synthesis model |
REM sleep happens regularly in regular patterns
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Primary sleep disorder |
They are not related to any other problems |
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Secondary sleep disorders |
Stem from other problems such as jet lag or stress. |
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Cognitive behavioral therapy |
When individuals look and there thinking and change how they perceive things as well as their behavior |
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Acupuncture |
Inserting needles in related parts of the body and can be used to help the body clock to readjust |
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Hypnotherapy |
Can help the client relax. Can treat insomnia and parainsomnias |
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Weaknesses of the activation synthesis mkdel |
Many people recognize their dreams as being based on passed events which does not support the random activation synthesis theory Lucid dreaming does not fit as it shows dreams are controllable and not random Only 34% of 200 dreams did not make logical sense Young children under 5 have very few dreams but normal REM sleep which suggests dreams are not simply liked to REM sleep |
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Lucid dreamjnf |
When people are dreaming and they know they are dreaming |
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Oedipus complex |
The idea that a boy from about the age of 4 will have unconscious feeling for his mother and want his father out the way, though then fears his father and feels guilty too. |
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Insomnia |
When someone cannot sleep or stay asleep. |
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Hyperinsomnia |
When people feel very sleepy throughout the day. |
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Narcelepsy |
When people have sudden attacks of sleep in the day. It is a brain disorder |
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Circadian rhythm disorders |
Affects the body clock. Can keep shifting sleep time. Treated with Bright lights at certain times |
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Parasonmias |
When people wake up with night terrors |
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REM sleep disorder |
Muscle paralysis is not active so the dreamer can have violent moment in REM sleep |
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