A Review of Sleep Deprivation and False Memories
Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Memories
Winter Everson
University of the People
Professor LeAnn O’Neal Berger
Submissions deadline: 24, November, 2016
Abstract
A research entitled Sleep Deprivation and False Memories were conducted with two experiments to discover the effects of sleep deprivation on memory. The team's hypothesis was sleep deprived individuals form false memories more than well rested people. The first experiment was done on participants who self-reportedly slept around 7 hours on a regular basis and a group who had claimed to sleep under 5 hours regularly. There were 193 participants with about 76% female who were instructed to keep sleep diaries. They were …show more content…
Sleep is more than a necessity, it is like good health and improves daily life rather just keeping you alive. The Sleep Deprivation and False Memories study were done to prove whether or not sleep can determine our ability to recall memories correctly. The results pointed towards sleep being a component in memory recall, but the study left more questions than answers. The results seem reliable and are applicable to daily life, but the first experiment contained many components which could impair the reliability of the study. …show more content…
The first experiment’s limitations spring up from the fact they did not keep a watch on the participants and had to rely on their perception of how long and how well they slept. For all the researchers knew, the participants had an undiagnosed sleep condition preventing them from getting the kind of sleep they needed to be a suitable subject. The subjects should have been watched as they were in the second experiment. Other limitations are caused by the fact they could not observe the participants for a much longer period of time to comb out any particular characteristics that may affect the studies such as allergies to dust mites making participants fuzzy minded even after a night of sleep. The particular strength of the study is the participants were tested throughout the day confirming whether sleep depravity truly had effects versus a rested mind. However, the major component that brings the conclusion to question is whether it was a difference between a rested minds or sleep depravity was made unclear by the results of the evening-encoding condition. Both experiments had flaws which the other could be used to validate the others' conclusions making the study invaluable. However, the most sleep we usually need is around eight hours when the most the first group had was six. The experiment still be flawed on this point.
Effects of Sleep Deprivation on Memories
Winter Everson
University of the People
Professor LeAnn O’Neal Berger
Submissions deadline: 24, November, 2016
Abstract
A research entitled Sleep Deprivation and False Memories were conducted with two experiments to discover the effects of sleep deprivation on memory. The team's hypothesis was sleep deprived individuals form false memories more than well rested people. The first experiment was done on participants who self-reportedly slept around 7 hours on a regular basis and a group who had claimed to sleep under 5 hours regularly. There were 193 participants with about 76% female who were instructed to keep sleep diaries. They were …show more content…
Sleep is more than a necessity, it is like good health and improves daily life rather just keeping you alive. The Sleep Deprivation and False Memories study were done to prove whether or not sleep can determine our ability to recall memories correctly. The results pointed towards sleep being a component in memory recall, but the study left more questions than answers. The results seem reliable and are applicable to daily life, but the first experiment contained many components which could impair the reliability of the study. …show more content…
The first experiment’s limitations spring up from the fact they did not keep a watch on the participants and had to rely on their perception of how long and how well they slept. For all the researchers knew, the participants had an undiagnosed sleep condition preventing them from getting the kind of sleep they needed to be a suitable subject. The subjects should have been watched as they were in the second experiment. Other limitations are caused by the fact they could not observe the participants for a much longer period of time to comb out any particular characteristics that may affect the studies such as allergies to dust mites making participants fuzzy minded even after a night of sleep. The particular strength of the study is the participants were tested throughout the day confirming whether sleep depravity truly had effects versus a rested mind. However, the major component that brings the conclusion to question is whether it was a difference between a rested minds or sleep depravity was made unclear by the results of the evening-encoding condition. Both experiments had flaws which the other could be used to validate the others' conclusions making the study invaluable. However, the most sleep we usually need is around eight hours when the most the first group had was six. The experiment still be flawed on this point.