Sleep

many of these issues are caused from lack of sleep. The Journal I chose is “Manipulating Sleep Duration Alters Emotional Functioning and Cognitive Performance in Children” It was just last week I had a conference with a parent, during the conference the parent revealed her son was only getting about 5-6 hours of sleep a night, this highlights several of my concerns. I explained to her that a two year old child should be getting about 11 hours of sleep a night. So it was blatantly obvious when…

Sleep deprivation is one of the key factors that caused some of the biggest disasters such as the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Three Mile Island nuclear accident, and the Chernobyl explosion (Wells and Vaughn 235). Sleep is very important to our overall health; it helps us power throughout the activities of the day, week, month, etc. It is a key factor to our mental, emotional, social, and physical health. However, in our highly active society that moves almost 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, sleep…

Approach The Cognitive Approach to Sleep and Dreams can be defined simply by the computer analogy. The key purpose of sleep is to store, input and output information collected throughout the day and process that information into some kind of order, this could explain why our dream content is mostly based on issues faced during the day. While we are asleep our mind processes information and then consolidates important memories and also discards useless information. Sleep has been proven to be…

Sleep Problems, Academic Performance and Substance Use among Adolescents Avery Noel PSY 101 10/15/15 One hundred seventy one students between the ages of 11-17 were studied to see what sleep problems would predict between three separate results: academic performance, classroom disruptive behavior, and substance use. One of America's most major health issues is trouble with sleep. It was estimated that, "7 million Americans suffer from sleep problems," that is just a little under one…

Sleep deprivation, which affects the sleep cycle, is a problem plaguing much of the human population. While there are copious amounts of scientific evidence about the consequences and many have authored about the issue, such as William Dement and Paul Martin, many people are still seemingly ignorant to it. Even though studies show that both adults and adolescents in America are becoming more and more sleep deprived, the problem seems to be exponentially more severe in adolescents. Many social,…

Sleep deprivation. A continually growing issue in the United States. People often more times than not, do not get enough sleep in the 24 hour span of the day. Not getting enough sleep in each day causes issues and affects a human’s life significantly. Sleep deprivation effects people to function at a slower level, both physically and mentally. By performing routine, everyday activities, sleep deprivation does not allow people to perform at a high level of awareness. People in the work place are…

Sleep Insight Improves Memory Recall It is common knowledge that sleep is essential for survival, “we spend about one-third of our lives asleep.” (National Institutes of Health, 2003) When an individual obtains adequate sleep, it is known to lower stress, improve one’s mood, help maintain a healthy weight, improves athletic performance/coordination, and increases one’s ability to pay attention and remember new information. The benefits of getting adequate hours of sleep, in turn have drastic…

body starts to function they still feel fatigue; due to, the lack of sleep from the night before their minds aren’t processing things like the brain normally would. Once arriving at school the lack of energy continues throughout the day. Would another hour of sleep make a difference? While some people agree, many others disagree, I fall upon the side that supports this idea. It has been proven by many doctors that one hour of sleep, indeed does make a difference in a person’s day. According to…

The four main evolutionary theories can be used to explain the function of sleep which consist of energy conservation, food requirements, predator avoidance and Meddis’ “waste of time” hypothesis. These theories attempt to explain sleep as an adaptive response which increases the chances of survival. Sleep can be used to conserve energy over long periods of time as metabolism and body temperature decreases. This can be observed in sleeping animals especially in those hibernating during the…

the sleep needs of students It is no secret that school has become much more difficult and demanding since it first began. And with its increasing demands comes an increase of students attempting to meet their high standards. In order to maintain the high grades to keep up with their fellow students many teenagers have begun neglecting sleep to stay up and study for whatever test, quiz, or essay they will be working on the next day. Then after two or three hours of sleep they are jolted awake…