Which approach to explaining dreams is best supported by the fact that students who are worried about getting a good grade in a class often have recurring dream of running out of time on exams,
oversleeping and missing class, or suddenly realizing that a paper deadline was just missed?
A) psychoanalytic
B) neurocognitive hypothesis
C) latent-dream theory
D) activation synthesis
Answer: B
Rationale: Sleep researcher Rosalind Cartwright has proposed the problem-solving theory—the theory that thoughts and concerns are continuous from waking to sleeping, and that dreams may function to facilitate finding solutions to problems encountered while awake. The theory predicts that the amount of waking concern about an issue will be positively correlated with the number of times it appears in a person's dreams. In contrast, the psychoanalytic theory focuses much more on the latent or unconscious content of dreams.
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