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level: Freud's theory of dreaming

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level questions: Freud's theory of dreaming

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What is preconsious mind?Able to be awae of it but requires thinking and recalling memories into consious mind.
What is consious mind?We are away of it, what we hear, see and what you are currently thinking about
What is the unconisous mind?Inaccessible part of the mind, effects behaviour and feeling. Thoughts are represed. Trauma etc, to protect ourselves.
What is the superego?5+ years old, moral consience. Understands rules and restrictions of parents and society, feel guilt when we do something wrong.
What is ego?12 months, provies reasonsing to balance demans between the ID and superego
What is the ID?Newborns, pleasure principal seeks instant graitification. 'I want'. Could be see through our dreams.
What is manifest content?Actual content of your dreams, the images you see or throughts you have
What is latent content?Hidden messages in your dreams
What is dreamwork?The way the mind keep uncosicious throuts hidden while we dream. To protects us and keep us asleep by repressed thoughts and ideas
What is condensation in dreams?Lots of things mixed into one, seperature elemetns are important in uncovering repressed meterals, so one idea needs to be picked
What is displacement in dreams?Distractions, something unimportant happens that seems important, ,shifting away from the importantint thing. Move away from something threatening
What is secondary elaboration in dreams?Little details, muddles ideas from dreamwork to buld a whole story, mind adds bit of details into the dream. This gets in the way of understanding latent content.
Strength of Freud's theory of dreaming?Used real life date, came from people's descriptions, used inforamtiont o reflect and understand their actual feelings and dreams
Strenght of Freud's theory of dreaming?Based on in-depth date, listening to people's stories over a period of tim . Lots of stories to back us is ideas, more detialed evidecne. Qualitive date, meaningful
Weakness of Freud's theory of dreaming?Baised sample, parenting same background, upper class, austrainalin and women. Gender bais and he also had to interpret the stories given to him .
Weakneses of Freud's theory of dreaming?Trying to measure the unconciouses, hard to verify, hard to access. Biased interpreation to help his study. The mind doesnt pchsically exists, so hard to test.