Function of daydreaming, According to Freud, where do we

Function of daydreaming

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1. What appears to be a function of daydreaming?
a. to act as a safety valve to release pent-up sexual desires
b. to facilitate the release of growth hormones
c. to remind us of important things in the future
d. to encode memories into the unconscious mind

2. Young David is being wheeled into the operating room for surgery and the preoperative drugs are
having an effect. His eyes are open, but his perception of the world around him, the voices of the
surgical team, and the faces of his relatives are very different than normal. At what point along
the continuum of consciousness is David most likely to be?
a. Daydreaming
b. Unconsciousness
c. altered states
d. cognitive preconscious

3. ____ refers to awareness that differs from normal consciousness.
a. Automatic processes
b. Cognitive unconscious
c. Controlled processes
d. Altered states

4. Tim believes that sleep is one continuous state of consciousness. Is Tim right?
a. Yes—sleep is made up of non-REM consciousness
b. Yes—sleep is made up of REM consciousness
c. No—sleep is made up of several states of body arousal and consciousness
d. No—sleep is made up of REM and Non-REM consciousness

5. As we pass into the deepest stages of sleep, we may:
a. sleeptalk or sleepwalk
b. have nightmares
c. have very vivid and emotional dreams
d. enter REM

6. According to Freud, where do we place threatening wishes or desires?
a. Unconscious
b. altered state of consciousness
c. Conscious
d. Unconsciousness

7. Implicit memory is to ____ as unconscious is to ____.
a. subjective; objective
b. motor and emotional memories; threatening memories
c. primary; secondary
d. motor and emotional memories; primary memories

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