Megan Losey, Leanna Gordon, Kyra Lovin, & Madison Frese Dreaming Megan Losey, Leanna Gordon, Kyra Lovin, & Madison Frese http://youtu.be/rMHus-0wFSo?t=7m28s

Freud's Psychodynamic Approach Our behavior and feelings are powerfully affected by unconscious motives Approaches: Instinctual drives: Behavior is motivated by; Eros (life and instinct), Thanatos (Aggressive drive and death instinct). Our unconscious mind (id and superego) are in constant conflict with our conscious mind (the ego) creating anxiety.

Manifest Content The content of a dream, fantasy, or thought as it is remembered and reported in psychoanalysis The dream’s surface content Made of symbols that disguise the dream’s true meaning

Latent Content The hidden meaning of a fantasy or dream, discoverable by analysis of the content of the dream. Not easy to determine Need to analyze manifest content Can be multiple ways to interpret a dream

Cognitive Theory We can understand dreaming by applying the same cognitive concepts we use in studying the waking mind. There is little or no search for the hidden, symbolic content of a dream. Dreams are subconscious cognitive processes involving information and memory. Seen as dramatizations of general life and metaphorically related to a person preoccupations while awake.

Activation-synthesis Theory Theory suggests that dreams are caused by the physiological processes of the brain. Internally generated stimuli Spontaneous neural activity in brain stem Random neural firing