A researcher carries out a new investigation into dreaming. Participants write accounts of their dreams in their own words. The researcher divides each account into sentence units and calculates a bizarreness density score by dividing the number of bizarre items by the number of sentence units. Conclusions are based only on these scores.
State the type of data produced by the participants' written dream accounts.
Explain why replacing each written account with one score is a limitation of this investigation.
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.