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is dreaming meaningful (Activation synthesis (Neuron- A cell in the body,…
is dreaming meaningful
Freud's dream theory
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Latent content- The meaning underlying the dream. If the symbols from the manifest content are translated by an analyst, they can reveal unconscious thoughts.
Condensation- When many thoughts and elements from the unconscious are represented in the dream in one symbol.
Displacement- When something that seems to be unimportant in the dream is made central, to shift attention from what is really important.
Secondary elaboration- How the dreamer builds a story when telling what the dream is about, adding to and changing things, which makes the analysis hard.
Psychoanalysis- Freud's therapy, deigned to help release unconscious thoughts.
Free association- A method used by Fraud in psychoanalysis where the patient is encouraged to express a flow of consciousness. The process helps to uncover links which can be interpreted.
Slip of the tongue- When someone uses the wrong word for something. Freud analyses these slips to help uncover unconscious thoughts.
Dream analysis- A method used by Freud to help uncover unconscious thoughts, by analysing dreams by uncovering symbols.
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Activation synthesis
Neuron- A cell in the body, including the brain, which sends information using both electrical and chemical processes.
Axon- The cable that leads from a cell body of a neuron down to the terminal buttons that hold the neurotransmitter.
Impulse- the electrical signal that travels from the cell body of a neuron to a terminal buttons, where it releases a neurotransmitter.
Neurotransmitter- A chemical at the terminal button of a neuron, which is released by the impulse and then goes into the synaptic gap.
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Synaptic transmission- What happens when a neurotransmitter released by an impulse of one neuron goes across the synaptic gap and is taken up at the dendrites of another neuron.
Activation-synthesis model- A model of dreaming proposed by Hobson and McCarley where the brain is active but no sensory information is coming into it. The brain puts ther information it has together it has together to make sense of it and this is the dream.
Random activation- During REM sleep, when neurones are active randomly but not deliberately.
Sensory blockade- During REM sleep, when no information enters through the senses.
Movement inhibition- The state, during REM sleep, when the body is paralysed and there is no movement.
Biology suggests that dreams are random thoughts which have been put together by the sleeping brain to make sense of them.
Hobson and McCarley tested cats to see which area of the brain were active during REM sleep. They found that the pons and the reticular activating system seems to be involved in shutting down physical movement during REM sleep.
Weaknesses: Many people recognise parts of their dreams as something that happened the day before or in their lives. This means that thoughts are not as random as activation- synthesis suggests.
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