AP PSYCHOLOGY

BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR

BIOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The idea that dreams represent wish fulfillment comes from which theory of dream interpretation?
A
Activation synthesis
B
Freud’s theory of dream interpretation
C
Transformation dream analysis
D
Spiritual world
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Freud’s most well-known theory, wish fulfillment, is the idea that when wishes can’t or won’t be fulfilled in our waking lives, they are carried out in dreams. Even anxious or punishing dreams have their roots in wish fulfillment, according to Freud. Dreams are fleeting.

Detailed explanation-2: -Freud said that, “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.” He meant that because dreams are such an unconscious activity they give an almost direct insight into the workings of the unconscious mind.

Detailed explanation-3: -Wish-fulfillment is a psychoanalytic concept that applies to situations in which some agent with a frustrated desire represents the world as he would like it to be-rather than as it actually is-and in this manner pacifies the desire.

Detailed explanation-4: -Dream analysis is a therapeutic technique best known for its use in psychoanalysis. Sigmund Freud viewed dreams as “the royal road” to the unconscious and developed dream analysis, or dream interpretation, as a way of tapping into this unconscious material.

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