Topic B - Freud key definitions

Question	Answer
Manifest content	The story that the dreamer tells
Latent content	The underlying meaning of the dream
Condensation	Many thoughts in the dream are represented by one symbol
Displacement	Something in the dream that seems unimportant is made central
Secondary elaboration	How the dreamer builds up a story, adding and building up the story, making analysis hard
Psychoanalysis	Freud's therapy, designed to unlock unconscious thoughts
Free association	A method used in psychoanalysis - patient is encouraged to express a flow of consciousness
Slip of the tongue	When someone uses the wrong word for something - these 'slips' are analysed
Dream analysis	A method used by Freud to help uncover unconscious thoughts - by analysing dreams
Qualitative data	Date involving stories or attitudes
Valid	Refers to findings of studies and means that hey are about real life situations
Subjective	Where the researcher is somehow is effecting the information gathered - possibly by their interpretations
Objective	Where the researchers views do not affect the information that is gathered

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