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6.2 Theories/Explanations: The Nature of Dreaming

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Question 9

A researcher asked 24 people to complete a tick-box questionnaire about how many dreams they could recall during one week. The researcher counted the responses and did not interpret the content of any dreams.

Compare the information collected in the source with the information Freud collected in his investigation of the Wolfman. Give one difference about the participants and one difference about the data collected.

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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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