AP PSYCHOLOGY

BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR

BIOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
According to Freud, what is the “Royal Road to the Unconsciousness?”
A
Dreams
B
Day Dreams
C
Concentration
D
Meditation
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Freud called dream interpretation the ‘royal road’ to the unconscious. It is the ‘King’s highway’ along which everyone can travel to discover the truth of unconscious processes for themselves. Everybody dreams, and because of this it is one of the best ways to grasp Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis in a practical way.

Detailed explanation-2: -Freud stated that dreams were the “royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind” Freud (1900).

Detailed explanation-3: -Sigmund Freud first popularized the idea that dreams are a reflection of unconscious processes, calling dreams “the royal road to the unconscious.” In dream analysis, the object of inspection-the dream-is a direct creation of the unconscious.

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