Sleep+deprivation

=Do you get enough sleep?=

[|Sleep Deprivation Within Five Hours Of Learning Impairs Memory Consolidation In Mice]

[|The science of sleep]

[|Sleepless in America]

Reading
Jamison, J. "Sleep, memory and learning" in //Levels of Analysis in Psychology// - Class handout

The sleep challenge
http://dangerousintersection.org/2010/01/10/huffington-sleep-challenge/

You are going to undertake the sleep challenge

Step 1
Self - report Using the following questions as a guideline, identify your status in the named areas:
 * 1) How alert are you at school
 * 2) How alert are you in each block
 * 3) Describe your recall of material covered in class (immediate, don't remember anything, remember the first half and not the second, no recollection of ever having taken those notes etc)
 * 4) prone to overreacting in stressful situations
 * 5) Level of stress
 * 6) Level of optimism
 * 7) Level of pessimism
 * 8) Level of tolerance in the company of peers
 * 9) Level of tolerance in the company of family
 * 10) General outlook on life

Step 2
Design your program to meet the challenge Each of you must keep a journal

In the journal, you will:
 * 1) note down how much sleep you had the night before
 * 2) you could also add a comment on any of the 10 areas in the list above
 * Class 3A began the challenge on August 27
 * Class 1B began the challenge on August 30

Step 3
Report at the end of a month
 * 1) Reflect on achievements/changes in the 10 areas above
 * 2) Reflect on whether or not you see value in getting adequate sleep - is it worth prioritizing?
 * Class 3A finish the challenge on September 24
 * Class 1B finish the challenge on September 27