AP PSYCHOLOGY

BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR

BIOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
According to Freud, the latent content of a dream refers to
A
its accompanying brain-wave pattern.
B
the previous day’s events that prompted the dream.
C
the sensory stimuli in the sleeper’s environment that are incorporated into the dream.
D
its underlying but censored meaning.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -According to Freud, the latent content of a dream is the hidden psychological meaning of the dream. This content appears in disguise symbolically and contains things that are hidden from conscious awareness, often because it may be upsetting or traumatic.

Detailed explanation-2: -in psychoanalytic theory, the disguising in dreams of unconscious wishes that would be disturbing to the ego if allowed conscious expression. According to Sigmund Freud, the thoroughness of dream disguise varies directly with the strictness of the censorship.

Detailed explanation-3: -According to Freud, the underlying meaning of a dream is known as its content.

Detailed explanation-4: -This aspect deals with the actual repressed wishes which get themselves satisfied in dream. The actual repressed desires can be known by analysing die latent content of the dream by the psychoanalyst. A common man cannot know the real implication behind the latent content of the dream.

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