When Zara was five, she was bitten by a large dog and became very frightened. She can no longer recall the event. Years later, she dreams that a small toy dog is moving behind the window of a closed shop. Zara remains asleep.
State the defence mechanism Freud would use to account for Zara being unable to recall the dog bite.
Explain why, according to Freud, the memory appears as a toy dog behind glass and Zara remains asleep.
81 exam-style questions on OCR GCSE Psychology 6.2 Theories/Explanations: The Nature of Dreaming, covering 6.2.1 Freudian dreaming: unconscious and repression, 6.2.2 Freudian dreaming: wish fulfilment and dream content; criticisms, 6.2.3 Freudian Theory research study: Freud (1918), 6.2.4 Activation Synthesis: REM sleep and the brain, 6.2.5 Activation Synthesis: pons, cortex and synthesis; criticisms, and 6.2.6 Activation Synthesis research study: Williams et al. (1992). Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.