3.06 Terms

the narrative story of a dream that sometimes provides allusions to the latent content (deeper meaning of a dream). Freud believed that your unconscious uses distortions in the manifest dream content like condensation and substitution to reveal clues to one's innermost thoughts.

Manifest content

expands on the activation-synthesis model in an attempt to explain the meaningful, realistic, and consistent nature of many dreams

activation-information-mode model (AIM)

the theory that dreams result from the brain's attempt to make sense of random of random neural signals that fire during sleep

activation-synthesis hypothesis

a socila interaction in which 1 person suggests to another that certain perceptions, feelings, thoughts, or behaviors will spontaneously occur.

hypnosis

According to psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, the latent content of a dream is the hidden psychological meaning of the dream. Freud believed that the content of dreams is related to wish fulfillment and suggested that dreams have two types of content: manifest content and latent content. The manifest content is the actual literal subject-matter of the dream, while the latent content is the underlying meaning of these symbols.

latent content

states that people who are hypnotized are not in an altered state but are simply playing the role they feel is expected of them in the situation

social-cognitive theory of hypnosis