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Psyc Final
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
12/10/2007

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Dreams
Definition
Mental expressions during sleep that include vivid visual images
Term
Research methods
Definition
Surveys
Dream Diaries
Dream (sleep) Labs
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Content analysis of dreams
Definition
putting the content of dream reports into categories and statistically examining the occurrence of this content
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Influencing Dreams
Definition
1) First Night Effect:
-Many sleep characteristics are unusual the first night of sleeping in a sleep lab, including dreams
2) Red-tinted Goggles worn while awake
3) Lucid Dreaming
-you know you are dreaming and can take voluntary control of the action
-Stephen Laberge
4) Stimulate while asleep during REM
-water in face-42% of the time
-light in face-23%of the time
-Tone-9%of the time
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Dream Theories: Dreams as Meaningful
Definition
Dreams have meaning
-Sigmund Freud
-Dreams have meaning and can be interpreted
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Manifest Content
Definition
remember story line of a dream
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Latent Content
Definition
Meaning of the dream
Term
Dreams as a way to solve problems
Definition
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Biological Theories
Definition
-dreams are the byproduct of neurological activity
-Activation-Syntheses Theory
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Activation-Syntheses Theory
Definition
dreams result from electrical storm from subcortical areas......NOT FINISHED GET REST OF NOTES
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