Question

. 5. Imagine that the scientist claims to have gotten the idea for a new power source during a dream. She had been working on the problem for many years, and one night she had a dream that gave her the solution in the form of symbols. She immediately wrote it down when she woke up. How might her
Dreams be addressed by each of these theories of deaming: freuds theory of latent content, the activation synthesis theory, and the information processing theory? Describe each theory and then how it would apply.

Answer 1

Answer: Her dreams falls into the the category of Freud’s

theory of latent content. His theory state that the

hidden meaning of a dream expresses

unconscious wishing and desires. She claims to

have been working on the problems for many

years, so she wanted to figure it out, thus, it falls

under the theory state that dreams are merely a

by product of brain activity during sleep. Since

she has always been working on this problems,

she probably had the problems on her mind, and

thus the dream was created. Finally, her the

brains way of organizing information taken in

during waking hours

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