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6.2 Theories/Explanations: The Nature of Dreaming

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Question 7

Priya writes the following entry in her dream diary:

‘I was taking part in a school quiz. When I picked up my answer card, all the writing faded away.’

After reading the entry, a therapist interprets the dream as expressing Priya's hidden fear that she will let her team down. Priya cannot bring this fear to awareness.

a.

State the manifest content of Priya's dream.

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b.

State the latent content of Priya's dream.

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c.

Name the defence mechanism that has kept Priya unaware of this fear.

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6.2 Theories/Explanations: The Nature of Dreaming Questions

  1. GCSE
  2. /Psychology
  3. /6.2 Theories/Explanations: The Nature of Dreaming

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.

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