While walking beside a river with her family, Noor slipped from the bank and was swept into the current before an adult pulled her to safety. Since then, Noor has been unable to bring the incident to mind, even when she tries. She often dreams that the walls of a long corridor are closing around her and wakes feeling frightened without knowing why.
State the defence mechanism Freud would use to explain why Noor cannot recall the river incident.
State the level of the mind in which Freud would say the memory is held.
Explain why Freud would expect the memory to appear as a closing corridor in Noor's dream rather than as the river incident itself.
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.