AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -According to the cognitive theory of dreams, dreams actually help us organize and interpret our everyday life experiences. It focuses on the fact that most dreams seem to reflect pretty ordinary daily life experiences, basically things that that are on our minds during waking life.

Detailed explanation-2: -There are three major theories: the psychodynamic theory of dreaming, the physiological theory of dreaming, and the cognitive theory.

Detailed explanation-3: -This section discusses the main assumptions, hypotheses, and findings with regard to four other contemporary theories of dreaming-Freudian theory, activation-synthesis theory, memory-consolidation theory, and threat-simulation theory.

Detailed explanation-4: -The cognitive approach to dreaming would predict links between what we think about during the day and what appears in our dreams, and is partly supported by evidence that dreams usually have a story that makes sense, rather than being a random mixture of memories.