Freud Theory of Dreaming

The unconscious mind is referred to as which of the following.....

• the most significant region of our mind, here lie the processes that are the real cause of most behaviour; the most important part of the mind that you cannot see.

• things we could be aware of if we wanted to

• the part of Freud's personality theory that is reasoning, to balance the demands of the id and superego.

• None of the above

Dreams are the result of unconscious thoughts

• True

• False

Manifest content is used to diguise the latend content in dreams.

• True

• False

The elements of a dream that people cannot usually recall and the symbolism that gives the real meaning of a dream is what type of content?

• Latent Content

• Manifest Content

• Dream Content

• Dreamwork

................................. is the process by which the 'hidden wish' in the latent content of a dream can be found.

• Latent content

• Manifest content

• Psychoanalyst

• Dreamwork

Latent content becomes manifest (revealed) through which of the following processees?

• Condensation

• Displacement

• Secondary elaboration

• All of the above

The data forming Freud's theory is mostly qualitative, detailed data.

• True

• False

The majority of Freud's findings were based on which of the following methods?

• Case studies

• Controlled experiments

• Correlation

• None of the above

A significant weakess of Freud's research is that it is subjective and therefore argued to e unscientific

• True

• False

Which of the following defines condensation?

• This involves the same symbolisation of the manifest content representing more than one aspect of the latent content or underlying wish. So one symbol may mean more than one thing in terms of the underlying meaning, so one dream idea may be ‘condensed’ into one manifest image.

• The expression of an abstract idea in a concrete way, for example a king may represent authority and power

• When something unimportant seems to be important and shifts attention away from what is actually important

• None of the above