Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Sleepwalking, Classical Conditioning, Black Box

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

Document Summary

He claims that he was dreaming and started to sleepwalk, therefore he should not be held accountable because he was dreaming at the time. Dreams (rem) and sleepwalking (stage 4) are in different stages of sleep. States that dreams have important meaning; very symbolic. Unconscious: id is what"s driving everything. Wants to go to sleep, but urges invade consciousness. Censors it and disguises the wishes of id. Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious: attempt to wish fulfillment, not constrained by. Morality (superego: but anxiety can be aroused. Thus, the content is censored and disguised: latent actual desire (id, manifest laundered version (censor by ego, but manifest content contains clues. Symbols where one thing stands for another: symbols for sexual intercourse. Riding an elevator; horse or roller coaster. Flying in an airplane: there is little correlation with dreams and what you actually see. Connected to other parts of the brain (cortex) Activates/ stimulates sensory, motor, and visceral neurons: synthesis.