| What is movement inhibitation? | Druing REM the body is prarlysed there is no movement |
| What is random activation? | During REM sleep, nuerons are still active and randomly moving |
| What is REM sleep? | This occurs 5 times each night, indicated dreaming is taking place |
| What is nuerons? | In the brain pass messages using electrical and chemical transmitions |
| What is syntheis? | Brain tries to make sense of random movemnts of the nuerons. this happens in a dream |
| What is sensory blockade? | During REM sleep no information is coming in through the senses |
| What does this study say about dreaming? | Its meaningless, REM sleep is jsut the brain trying to make sense of things |
| What happnes during REM with information and sense? | No information coming into the brain and no outgoing movments are made by the bbody |
| What is activation-synthesis? | The brain trying to make sense of the random activation of the brain by going this in a dream. |
| What is the synthesis part of the theory? | Making sense of the nonsense by putting it into a story which is the dream |
| Strength of the theory? | Supported by reserch in sleep labs of REM and muscles prarlysis |
| Strength of the theory? | Objective date from EGGs, meausre electrical activity in the brain. This means its not open to interpreation. |
| Weakness of the theory? | Used cats to test the theory, evidence is not generalised for human dreaming. Not in the target popluation |
| Weakness of the theory ? | Dreams are often relatatble to what happens recently in everyday life. Suggests that the random firing of nuerons might have meaning. Relive something that happend that was traumatic and emotional. |
