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1. Franco studied all evening for a chemistry test scheduled the following morning. That night he dreamed that he accurately copied a female classmate's correct answers to the test questions as they unexpectedly flashed before his eyes. Compare and contrast explanations of Franco's dream that might be provided by Freudian, memory consolidation, and activation-synthesis theories. In what sense is the dream a reflection of Franco's level of cognitive development? Students should explain possible interpretations of Franco's dream: A Freudian interpretation would involve identifying symbols in the manifest content of the dream (the apparent dream content) and what those symbols indicate about unconscious wishes and anxieties (the latent content). A memory consolidation (or information-processing) interpretation would explain that the dream most likely occurred during REM sleep, and that REM sleep is associated with encoding memories. Activation-synthesis theory explains that dreams are the brain's attempt to make sense of random neural …show more content…

Some children will still be extroverts rising over their parents so this complaint really has no base. This is a case of nurture. Under attention from his mother made him shy because he had limited interactions during the time period it was vital which caused motivation to lack when he was in school to be a social butterfly. The conservatives of his father has made him reserved, and because his father was strict. It may have caused an uneasiness in Mr. Firkin, which is the cause for the anxiety. However, Mr. Firkin cannot blame his parents because he embraced the negative traits his parents were displaying instead of deciding to act the opposite of them when he was a teenager. Now as an adult, he can choose his own morals and behavior bases on his own experiences, friends, family, and

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