12 biopsychology students from Harvard University aged 23 to 45.
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Research Method
natural experiment and self-report (journal entries)
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Aim
to see if bizarreness of Dreams is different to the bizarreness of daytime fantasies (day dreams)
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Procedure
participant kept a journal for a term recording any dream that they could recall or an any day dreams experienced.
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Procedure
The researchers selected 60-day dreams and 60 dreams (5 lines long) from the journals. These were then scored by three different judges (checking inter-rater reliability) judges didn't know whether they were scoring dream or daydream and were later a
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Findings
Dreams were found to be a lot more bizarre than daytime fantasies (daydreams) There were good levels of inter-rater reliability between the judges. The judges were 88.7% accurate on judging whether they were dreams or daydreams
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Conclusions
The bizarreness of Dreams is due to brain activity during REM sleep
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Limitations- Generalizability
- the study can’t be generalized as sample was too small to the suggest the difference in bizarreness and daydreams for everyone. Also 10 out of 12 participants effect female meaning he findings could have been gender biased.
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Limitations
Participants may have lied or exaggerated about their dreams and daydreams for social desirability. For example, if what they dreamed about was too embarrassing to report. There is no way of checking the accuracy of the dreams or daytime fantasies,
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Limitations
dreams and day time fantasies are complex and yet they were reduced to Simple numbers, oversimplified and it may lack construct validity because of this.
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natural experiment and self-report (journal entries)
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Research Method
Card 3
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to see if bizarreness of Dreams is different to the bizarreness of daytime fantasies (day dreams)
Back
Card 4
Front
participant kept a journal for a term recording any dream that they could recall or an any day dreams experienced.
Back
Card 5
Front
The researchers selected 60-day dreams and 60 dreams (5 lines long) from the journals. These were then scored by three different judges (checking inter-rater reliability) judges didn't know whether they were scoring dream or daydream and were later a
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