Facilitating the Reportage of Dreams with Semantic Cues
Harvey I. Botman, Herbert F. Crovitz
Imagination, Cognition and Personality October 1, 1989 DOI: 10.2190/wbfl-rbeg-va3w-0g7k (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Experimental study Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Intervention | event cues related to experiences from the day before the dream |
| Citations | 10 |
| Key findings | Cuing increased the reportage of dreams beyond free recall, with semantic cues related to dream themes proving the most effective prompts. The authors discuss these results in terms of amnesia findings and memory theories emphasizing retrieval cuing. |
Abstract
Three experiments investigated dream reports from the previous night. The major hypothesis tested was that the reportage of dreams could be facilitated with cues. Three different types of cues were examined: semantic cues related to the themes of dreams, event cues related to experiences from the day before the dream, and color-names. On the whole, cuing increased the reportage of dreams beyond free-recall, with semantic cues related to the theme of dreams being the most effective prompts. The results were discussed in terms of findings from the study of amnesia and theories of memory that emphasize the retrieval cuing.
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