Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Behaviorism, Fear Conditioning, The Dentists

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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He claims that he was dreaming and started to sleepwalk. Therefore, he should not be held accountable because he was dreaming at the time. A: dreams and sleepwalking typically occur in different stages of sleep. Those in last rem period are remembered, they are also the longest dreams. More emotional dream = more cortical activity = remember better. Provides a cue (blinking light) to tell you that you"re dreaming www. lucidity. com for more info on lucid dreams. Significant stress correlated with increased frequency of nightmares. Do healthy people have nightmares? (wood and bootzin, 1990) Dream logs indicated an average of 25 per year -> this is normal. Id wants things, you repress these wishes, and so you need some form of expression. Wants to sleep, but urges from id invade consciousness (ego and id are connected) So to compromise, id"s issues are censored by ego. Latent content of dream -> actual desire, what id wants.