PSYC 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Melatonin, Cortisol, Telomere

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Mongrain

Document Summary

Physically attacked: theories of dreams, freud. Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious. The latent content could be a conflict with something. Some criticism is that not all forms of anxiety are due to sexual natures. There is so simple answer for dream interpretation. There was a difference from jung (personal vs collective unconscious expressed in dreams b) theories of dreams con"t ii) problem- solving view. Dreams reflect an attempt to solve problems in waking- life. You have a problem in waking life and your dreams show the attempt to find a solution for your problem iii) biological view. Dreams are the by-product of the neural firing emerging from (subcortical) areas of the brain. The origin of the dream is not as important to see what one is going through. The house cleaning which is the activation synthesis model is less important to who you are.