PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cerebral Cortex, Sensory Cortex, Scale-Invariant Feature Transform

• School: Xavier University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 101
• Professor: Julie Rowekamp

Document Summary

Dreams (important for reorganizing a way a memory is stored, allowing us to compare and integrate a new experience with older ones) Dreams provide a psychic safety valve" that discharges otherwise unacceptable feelings. For freud, most notably, sexual or aggressive impulses. Freud believed that dreams had two levels: manifest content- what you report the dream to be about, latent content- what the dream is really about, (true/hidden meaning, interpretation) What happens during the day shapes dreams that satisfy unconscious needs: information processing. Helps to sift and sort through the days events. So it can process and assimilate new data. According to this theory, as the brain is sifting through the days events (as well as what is already in our memory), dreams are really only brief snippets from an ongoing process of scanning and sorting: brain stimulation. Our brains must regularly exercise groups of neurons (which rem sleep provides)