...involved in why we dream, how to understand our dreams and the possibilities of remembering our dreams. Despite opposing viewpoints, research proves that everyone does dream and if we understand how our dreams work, then it will have a positive effect on our well-being. “There are many theories about why we dream, but no one knows for sure.” (Karriem-Norwood). The two main theories as to why we dream is, “ To represent unconscious desires and wishes [and] To consolidate and process information...
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... About a month ago the two of us brainstormed a few ideas for our first Psychology project. After a weighing the pros and cons of our options, we decided to research dreams and dreaming. We were hoping to learn some information over the vague topic of dreams such as the biology, the causes of dreams, and possibly some of the meanings behind certain dreams. Not only that, but we were interested in the different varieties of dreams people had and why they had them. From the beginning, we had hoped to answer some seemingly basic questions such as “What is a dream?” “What are some different types of dreams people experience?” and “Why would someone experience a certain type of dream?” After many hours and much research, we feel that we were rather successful in answering these and many more questions regarding the topic. So what IS a dream? Well, according to Sigmund Freud, dreams are the, “royal road to the unconscious.” Coming into this project with little to no experience on the topic, it was more than difficult to comprehend why it was that important. “They’re only dreams,” we would say, but after extensive research and reading, it is much easier to follow where Freud was coming from. You see, dreams are not simple; you have to admire the intricacy of a dream interweaving thoughts, ideas, and experiences a person has had in his/her lifetime. The process of dreaming itself connects different parts of the mind that may not be able to find each other or work together had it...
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...Running Head: Rape Trauma Syndrome Kianna Walls Forensic Psychology March 26, 2015 Abstract Rape is commonly defined as using force to make someone do a sexual act against their will. Rape can cause a person to experience symptoms that are very similar to post-trauma stress disorder. The person experiences symptoms such as nightmares, constant reliving of the event, and denial. Victims experiencing this go through rape trauma syndrome. RTS is not commonly used in court rooms as it is easily dissuaded. When it used in the courtroom, it is used more of a defense than to show that a victim can experience this. This paper explores what RTS is and how it used in courtrooms. It also explores why RTS should be used courtrooms, not as a defense but to show that it exist and that victims can experience this. Rape Trauma Syndrome There have been many trials that use rape-trauma syndrome as either a defense mechanism or as a way to say that rape happened and this was a consequence. But not many trials with expert testimony on RTS as allow to be used. Yet it should be as many people, both female and males, are raped and experience RTS. Rape trauma syndrome is defined by Gupta (2013) as a type of PTSD that consists of physical and emotional traits from post-rape that many people are rape victims share (pg. 415). RTS is very serious and those that have experienced this syndrome deserve to have it recognized in court. There are many misconceptions of rape...
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...time it seems like the monster is about to catch it’s dinner (you), all of a sudden you get that tiny extra burst of speed to just escape his grasps. With no resolution in sight, you make a break for the nearest door. When you open the door it’s your dead grandmother taking a bath. What!? These are the kind of silly and seemingly unexplainable instances that occur in our unconscious sleep every night when we go to bed. Contrary to what you may think, these ridiculous dreams that almost resemble cartoons more than real life, do actually have a significant impact on our emotional state, and for the most part are based on our own anxieties, desires, and memories. In this essay I’m going to attempt to analyze a current dream I’ve had and interpret the meaning and origin of this dream using the sources available to me. I’m standing on a steep grass hill, looking out over a shallow and narrow valley that appears to have been cut of the landscape like a spoon would do to a tub of ice cream. Inside this crevice is a highway I’ve never seen before, with cars zooming down the road at high speeds. Above the highway is an overpassing bridge with more fast and noisy cars. On the opposite side of this speedway that I’m standing along is my beloved dog, who I’ve raised since he was six weeks old. He’s going into traffic and I’m scrambling to get to him on the other side of this speedway, but there’s too many cars coming for me to get across. Just before it seems my dog is going to become road...
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...December 8, 2010 “Dreams versus reality” is a motif that serves an important role in Revolutionary Road. Many of the main characters day dream and imagine theoretical situations. This can be applied in real life to the majority of people because whether tired or bored, one will eventually dream in one way or another. Lucid dreaming is a term created by Frederik van Eeden that is used to describe a dream in which one is aware that he/she is dreaming. This type of dreaming is considered by many as a higher level of consciousness. Most people do not know what lucid dreaming is and those who do rarely are aware of how to realize that they are dreaming, let alone actually manipulate their dreams. Lucid dreaming can have many benefits in one’s life, whether it’s relieving stress, learning or studying, having fun, etc. Also, there is little risk in dreaming lucidly, since dreams do not take place in the physical world. Anything that can benefit many people with little risk should be readily available and encouraged. Dreaming lucidly fits this description yet is not studied often, and on top of that, is not taken very seriously within the scientific community. Lucid dreaming should be a topic that is taught and discussed more often than is currently in everyday life. To understand lucid dreaming, one must understand the two different types of “life”. One of which is waking life, which you probably can guess, refers to one’s life while they are awake. The other of which...
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...consciousness is variously defined as subjective experience, awareness, the ability to experience "feeling", wakefulness, or the executive control system of the mind (Google definition). There are many consciousness people face as in enduring issues with the mind body relation, sleep patterns as in why do we need sleep, rhythms of sleep , sleep deprivation, sleep disorders, dreams and why do we dream. Sleep, as a human or animal we need to sleep because our body regenerates its self when it’s at rest. Humans spend at least one-third in an altered state of consciousness. When we are tired we crave to go to sleep just as if we are hungry we crave food. We can’t live without both. No human can stay p past twenty hours without feeling like they are about to crash. No one knows exactly why we need sleep but it plays and important part in restorative function. When humans are asleep there are rhythms of sleep. Circadian rhythm is a biological rhythm that last about 24 hours. There are 4 stages the sleeper enters when they fall asleep. Stage one is when the brain gives you the signal your muscles to relax. It also gives off that your heart is to beat slower and when that happens your temperature begins to drop. Stage 2 is a light sleep. You’re not fully asleep but you can be awakening. Stage 3 you are in a deeper sleep. Your blood pressure begins to get lower because your brain gives off that message. Even though the body temperature is getting lower the human that is asleep...
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...Discussion Paper – Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria In a 2-3 page narrative, reflect upon the video shown in class and answer the following questions: What was your lasting impression after seeing the video? Why? Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria is a film What part of the video struck you most? Why? What do you think should happen in the future? Clear message The acting is terrible They thin it's AIDS 250 sex partners in a year? The mortality rate could be 100% Gay pneumonia or gay cancer Butcher's Bill Putting money towards the department of defense None towards public health PAC man --> something's gobbling up T cells Mix between Feline leukemia and hepatitis B Tracking patient 0 --> French Canadian I airline Stewart Links it to sexually transmitted disease Most connections made in bath houses When he told them that most of the people that got it was at a bath house, there was an uproar Saw it as gay bashing Bath houses didn't get closed Blood transfusions Couldn't get name because there's still no evidence The naming of the disease AIDS from GIRDS Since it doesn't just appear in gay men Doctors didn't inform her about blood donor Blood company refused to do testing on current blood transfusions 89% of hemophiliacs have become infected "When doctors start acting like businessmen, who can the people turned to for doctors?" New human retrovirus with a bar Competition between Gallo and the French on who discovered the virus...
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...PSYCHOLOGY FINAL EXAMINATION ESSAY QUESTIONS GROUP 1 What issues give rise to the bipolar disorder? Bipolar disorder issued from lack of chemical and electrical elements in brain to function properly. It also occur in the presence of corresponding genes in patients DNA as a results of genes transmission from older generations. Bipolar disorder has 2 common poles known as Mania and Depression. How does this 2 poles differ from each other and how does this 2 poles correlate to each other? Mood Changes | -A long period of feeling "high," or an overly happy or outgoing mood -Extreme irritability | Behavioral Changes | -Talking very fast, jumping from one idea to another, having racing thoughts -Being easily distracted -Increasing activities, such as taking on new projects -Being overly restless -Sleeping little or not being tired -Having an unrealistic belief in one's abilities -Behaving impulsively and engaging in pleasurable, high-risk behaviours | | Depression | Mood Changes | -An overly long period of feeling sad or hopeless -Loss of interest in activities once enjoyed, including sex. | Behavioral Changes | -Feeling tired or "slowed down" -Having problems concentrating, remembering, and making decisions -Being restless or irritable -Changing eating, sleeping, or other habits -Thinking of death or suicide, or attempting suicide. | How does they correlate? Both involves disturbance in length of sleep. Both involves...
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...They explain how someone would feel if it really did happen, and they explain the importance of providing an ear for the victim so they can cope with their situation. They are good examples because on shows it from the victim’s point of view and the other from a family member’s point of view, so you can get both people’s perspectives on the state that person is in. They give you an idea on the actions you should take if something like this occurs to either you...
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...Running Header: Secularism vs. Religion 1 Secularism vs. Religion Patricia Nash HIS 104 World Civilizations II Instructor: Kristy Nelson May 18, 2013 Secularism vs. Religion 2 It took the courage of one man to change the way religion was looked upon along the way for others to see that there was more of a choice out there for them. Religion was and is the way one has their own beliefs, what to them is truth, to which way they should be lead in. Each religion believes in something different from another and most of them all believe in one God, only a few does not. The world had outgrown just one religion therefore, when Martin Luther and King Henry decided to separate themselves from the church many more had emerged. Secularism identifies it’s self as something called 'religion' and separate it from the domains of the state, the economy and science. Secularism is the realization that God’s will be done plus the natural evolution of universal morality. Christianity was the spiritual identity of one’s soul, beliefs, spirituality, social, and political foundation. Then those from other countries believed that Christianity provided spiritual connections, organizing principles, and inspirations for their identity. Believers were united by their faith as well as...
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...Learning Experience Paper When experiences in life happen, we learn from them. They can be positive or negative learned experiences but none the less we learn what works or what doesn’t. All experiences create responses within us. Those responses can be conditioned or unconditioned. Learning from your experiences growing up allows for the growth of yourself through the perception of what you feel has changed you as a person. Self-reflection after experiences happened shows you how they affected you and what you can do to change that learned behavior or response. My Learning Experience and Response Growing up my parents were abusive to each other and us children. When arguments between my parents would occur my bedroom was the battle ground. My father seemed to think that threatening his life and asking me to “Kiss him goodbye.” Would keep my mother around. When she finally got the courage up to leave, she said it was because my little brother said how nice it was when my dad was on a hunting trip. Leaving my dad made my mother frightened and would tell us how she felt my father would kill us in our sleep, and she would go into detail often about what she felt he would do to us. Later my father’s family got involved, and they all came and beat up my family. My two younger brothers were crying and one still in an infant seat I had to take out and try to protect from them as they tried to grab them and run. Being the older child, it was more my responsibility to protect everyone...
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...At a time when the stalker movie had been exploited to all ends and the image of mute, staggering, vicious killers had been etched into society’s consciousness to the point of exhaustion, a new kid entered the block. The year was 1984 and it was time for a new villain to enter into the horror genre. A villain that was agile, intelligent, almost inviolable yet viscous, and by all means deadly. A Nightmare on Elm Street introduced the distinctive presence of Fred Krueger to the horror industry and to the audience. Freddy Krueger took the center stage and with him a new era of horror films began. This horribly scarred man who wore a ragged slouch hat, dirty red-and-green striped sweater, and a glove outfitted with knives at the fingers reinvented the stalker genre like no other film had. Fred Krueger breathed new life into the dying horror genre of the early 1980’s. Horror films are designed to frighten the audience and engage them in their worst fears, while captivating and entertaining at the same time. Horror films often center on the darker side of life, on what is forbidden and strange. These films play with society’s fears, its nightmare’s and vulnerability, the terror of the unknown, the fear of death, the loss of identity, and the fear of sexuality. Horror films are generally set in spooky old mansions, fog-ridden areas, or dark locales with unknown human, supernatural or grotesque creatures lurking about. These creatures can range from vampires, madmen, devils, unfriendly...
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...Although Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is a commonly known disorder, many people do not fully understand what it is or the affects it has on someone who has it. The definition of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is simple, however, the disorder itself it quite complex. “PTSD is a mental health condition that’s triggered by a terrifying event-either experiencing it or witnessing it” (Mayo Clinic Staff). Due to the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, more and more military members are coming home with symptoms of PTSD. This has been front page news and has become prevalent in everyday lives. One major fact to remember is that anyone can experience a horrific event which can cause Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The symptoms of PTSD are hard to identify if warning signs are ignored. More often than not, cases of PTSD are aided by talking through the traumatic situation. The hardest part is getting a victim to talk about it. Emotional numbness can be one of the biggest warning signs, yet one of the easiest to ignore. Emotional numbness can be...
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...Name _______________________ Date ________________________ Period_______________________ The Pearl Study Questions Chapter 1 1. Why is there no need for Kino and Juana to talk? a. Kino is angry with Juana. b. Every morning is the same, so they know what to do and don’t need words. c. Juana left Kino a note. 2. What song replaces the Song of the Family? a. The Song of Morning b. The Song of the Scorpion c. The Song of Evil 3. Why does Juana repeat “ancient magic words” to guard against evil? a. A scorpion is walking toward Coyotito. b. The brush house is on fire. c. Juana is a witch. 4. How did the scorpion manage to sting the baby? a. Coyotito shook the rope the scorpion was on and it fell in his crib. b. Kino dropped the scorpion in the crib. 5. Why is the scorpion sting so dangerous for a baby? a) Scorpion bites cause swelling, fever and stomach cramps. b) Scorpion bites can make an adult very ill and kill a baby. c) Scorpion bites leave an ugly scar. 6. Why does Kino think the doctor will not come to them? a. The doctor is too far away. b. They don’t know where the doctor is. c. The doctor is too busy taking care of his rich patients. 7. Draw the procession described on page 8 and label the characters going to see the doctor. 8. What do the beggars infer about Kino and Juana? a. They see them running and think there is an emergency. b. They see their old clothes...
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...The Road by Cormac McCarthy is about a man and his son walking the roads of America in post-apocalyptic times. The man and this son are faced with many issues. One of the main issues is that it is them two versus the evil of the world that remains. People eating people, death everywhere, and plenty of evil people to look out for. His main goal is to look out and care for his son. Throughout the book you can gather one main point from the events and character development. Even when America is burnt to the ground, people are still exiled. Throughout the novel, the man and the boy are alone walking the streets trying their best to avoid conflict. The boy doesn’t want there to be any violence whatsoever. They are trying to avoid people like...
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