If a College Student Who Is Struggling to Keep from Flunking

question 230

Multiple Choice

If a college student who is struggling to keep from flunking out of school dreams of winning the "student of the year award," this dream would be MOST consistent with which of the following theories of dreaming?

• A)F antasy
• B)Activation-synthesis
• C)Wish fulfillment
• D)Problem-solving

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Definitions:

Symbolic Interactionists

Sociologists who study how people use symbols to create meaning and how those meanings shape and are shaped by social interaction.

Operant Conditioning

A learning process through which the strength of a behavior is modified by reinforcement or punishment.

Patriarchal Culture

A societal structure in which men hold primary power and predominate in roles of political leadership, moral authority, social privilege, and control of property.

Symbolic Interactionism

A sociological perspective focusing on the symbolic meanings that people create and attach to behaviors, objects, and people, and how they use these meanings in their interactions.