Dreams & Freud's Dream Theory
What stage of sleep do dreams occur in?
REM sleep
Name one of the other dream theories mentioned in the presentation.
- Memory consolidation
- Activation synthesis
- Threat simulation
What did Daniel Wegner's Thought Suppression Experiment reveal about suppressed thoughts in relevance to dreams?
Participants who were intentionally suppressing the thought of a specific person dreamt about that person much more than other participants who either thought about whatever they wanted or consciously focused on their person.
What does Freud's dream theory suggest?
Dreams represent unconscious desires, thoughts, wish fulfillment, and motivations.
According to the threat simulation theory, the amygdala is active in similar ways to a _________.
Fight or flight situation.
Some people believe that certain sexual and aggressive wishes are....?
Banned by society, leading to the repression of those wishes
Freud believed that dreams consisted of mostly repressed _____ and _______ wishes.
Aggressive & Sexual
Which two parts of the brain are triggered during REM sleep according to the activation synthesis dream theory?
Amygdala & Hippocampus
Scientists refer to the occurrence of suppressed thoughts appearing in your dreams as the _________?
Dream rebound effect