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Dreaming

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Synaptic transmission What happens when a neurotransmitter released by an impulse of one neuron goes across the synaptic gap and is taken up at the dendrites of another neuron.
Vaild Refers to finding of a studies and means that they are about real-life situations, real-life behavior or feelings that are real.
Subjective Where the researcher is somehow affecting the information that is gathered perhaps by their interpretation.
Reliability Refers to whether finding from a study would be found again if the study was repeated. A study is reliable if the findings are replicated
Quantitative data Data involving numbers and statistics, such as percentages
Qualitative data Data involving stories or attitudes.
privacy An ethical guideline for studied that involve people as participants, which ensure that their names must not be recorded and they must not be identifiable.
Objective Where the researcher's views do not affect the information thst id gathered.
Generalisable Refers to findings of the studies and whether they can be true of people other than those that were studied.
Confiedentiality An ethical guideline for studies that involve people as participants, which ensures that information gained must not be shared with others without permission.
Case study A research method studying an individual or a small group and gathering in depth and detailed information requiring different means.
Aim A statement of what the study is being carried out to find.
Synaptic gap The gap between the dendrites of one neuron and the next.
Slip of the tongue When someone used the wrong word for something. Freud analysed these slips to help uncover unconscious thoughts.
Secondary elaboration How the dreamer builds a story when telling what the dream is about, adding to and changing things, which makes analysis hard.
Random activation During REM sleep, when neurons are active randomly not deliberately.
Psychoanalysis Freud's therapy, designed to help release unconscious thoughts.
Phallic Term used to refer to anything that is related to, or said to represent, the male penis, or the term can refer to the penis.
Oedipus complex The idea that a boy from about the age of four will have unconscious feelings for his mother and want his father to be out the way, though then fears his father and feels guilty too.
Neuron A cell in the body, including in the brain, that sends information using both electrical and chemical processes.
Movement inhibition The state, during REM sleep, when the body is paralysed and there is no movement.
Manifest content What the dream is said to be about by the dreamer- the story the dreamer tells.
Latent content The meaning underlying the dream. if symbols from the manifest content are translated by an analyst, they can reveal unconscious thoughts.
Impulse The electrical signal that travels from the cell body of a neuron to the terminal buttons where it releases the neurotransmitter.
Free association A method used by Freud in psychoanalysis where the patient is encourage to express a flow of consciousness. The process helps to uncover links which can then be interpreted.
False memory Any memory that is not true and can be given by someone else 'remembering' an event and telling another person who 'remembers' it as true.
Dream analysis A method used by Freud to help uncover unconscious thoughts, by analysis dreams and uncovering symbols.
Displacement When something that seems to be unimportant in the dream is made central, to shift attention from what is really important.
Condensation When many thought and elements from the unconscious are represented in the dream in one symbols.
Axon The 'cable' that leads from a cell body of a neuron down to the terminal buttons that hold the neurotransmitter.
Activiation-synthesis A model of dreaming proposed by Hobson and McCarley where the brain is active but no sensory information is coming into it. The brain puts the information it has together to make sense of it and this is the dream.
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