Comparing Dream Theories

In the syllabus you are required to compare Freud's theory with Hobson and McCarley's theory. You need to say how their theories are different, how their testing was different, and their strengths and weaknesses. 
== Theory ==
Freud:
 - Dreams have meaning
- Related to real life 
- Dreamwork can be used to decode dreams
- About nurture, unconscious desires
Hobson and McCarley:
 - Dreams are random, have no meaning
- Not related to life events, they are caused by random activation
- Biological
== Methodology ==
Freud:
 - Case studies 
- Little Hans
- Dream analysis
- Free association 
- Slip of the tongue 
Hobson and McCarley:
 - Neurotransmitter
- Animal experiments
- Brain scans
- EEG tests (electrical activity) 
== Strengths ==
Freud's theory:
Strengths 
- Uses case studies and dream analysis 
- Dreams have meaning with the story giving symbols, clues to the unconscious 
- Both nature and nurture. Powerful unconscious is nature but contents of dream is nurture
Weakness 
-Lacks credibility, lack of scientific methods and unlikely explanation
 - Subjective, evidence was interpreted by Freud
Hobson and McCarley's theory:
Strengths 
 - Objective, uses scientific measurements
- Credible because of scientific methods
- Uses scanning and experiments
Weakness 
- Dreams have no meaning, random and meaningless
- Nature, dreaming is part of the way the body and the brain work