Rosa often dreams that she is locked out of her childhood home. Her friend says the dream must be revealing a hidden wish. Her brother says it is just her brain making sense of random activity while she sleeps.
Evaluate Freud's theory of dreaming as an explanation of Rosa's dream. You must make reference to activation synthesis theory in your answer.
48 exam-style questions on Edexcel GCSE Psychology 9.1 Sleep and dreaming, covering 9.1.1 Functions, features and benefits of sleep, 9.1.2 Internal and external influences on sleep, 9.1.3 Sleep disorders, 9.1.4 Freudian theory of dreaming (Freud, 1900), and 9.1.5 Activation Synthesis Theory (Hobson and McCarley, 1977). Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.