Psychology 2011A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Allan Hobson, Stochastic Resonance, Robert Mccarley

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2011A/B
• Professor: Imants Baruss

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Dream analysis: concerned with the manner in which social psychological realities such as cultural values and reflected in dreams. Dream interpretation: concerned with the potential meaning of dreams. 18th and 19th c the rise of rationalism leg to a new theory that dreams were merely meaningless random expressions of physiological activity during sleep . Example: the activation-synthesis hypothesis: proposed by allan hobson and robert. 2: apparent sensory impressions, uncritical acceptance of dream events, difficulty in being remembered. Foulke"s cognitive dream theory: what gets activated while asleep is memory: dreams do not mean anything, although as productions of computational system, they could incidentally reveal something of the character of the person who does the dreaming. Observations led him to believe that there was a universal substratum of the mind underlying human experience and behaviours called collective unconscious. Essential psychic characteristic : of collective unconscious that disingusih us as human beings. Incorporations of stimuli in dreams are usually indirect.