Claudia Aguirre Ted Talk Analysis

In the Ted Talk, Claudia Aguirre discussed the effects of sleep deprivation and how it effects the body’s way of functioning. Her talk was primarily about what problems can occur when we do not get the necessary amount of sleep on a daily basis. On average in the United States about 66% of teenagers and 30% of adults are day after day sleep deprived. In one experiment, a 17 year old stayed awake for 11 days. On the second day without any sleep his eyes stopped dilating and the next day he was extremely moody and highly uncoordinated. As the experiment was coming to a close the 17 year old could barely concentrate. Even his short-term memory was affected, he increasingly became paranoid and had hallucinations. Claudia Aguirre even discussed …show more content…
In Chapter 9 in our text, Piaget discusses stages of cognitive development, each stage of life requires different developments that leads into mastery of other stages. In stage one from birth to 2 years old, coordination, sensory and memory input, and motor responses are developed. In stage two from 2 to 7 years old, symbolic thought, centration and egocentrism are developed. In stage three from 7 to 11 years old, mastery of conservation, hierarchal classification and mental operations to concrete events are developed. Lastly in stage 4 from 11 years to adulthood, logical and systematical thinking, and mental operations applied through abstract ideas are developed. Aguirre’s topic of sleep deprivation connects to Chapter 9 of Piaget’s cognitive development. For example, without sleep for a child from birth to 2, the child’s development would be hindered by the lack of sleep. The child would not be able to have great coordination due to sleep deprivation causes coordination. Even sensory, memory and motor responses development would be hinder sleep deprivation in the child would cause a lack in reaction time, memory and learning. In each of Piaget’s stages, no matter what the age the developmental process would be delayed if the child does not get the sleep he or she desperately needs. In a way sleep deprivation and …show more content…
The video was very informative and gave a plethora of information about the issues that occur when someone does not get enough sleep on a daily basis. The only issue I had on the talk was how her information was sometimes scattered, at one point she would talk about the symptoms of sleep deprivation to how we go to sleep and then back to symptoms. Honestly I do believe that this talk will help people understand the need of sleep. Around our age we need at least 7 to 8 hours of sleep, and just reading the symptoms and problems that could occur in the future was an eye opener. This Ted talk will help others comprehend how much sleep they really need and in the end help them to hopefully try to sleep better and longer