PSYCH 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Glucose Tolerance Test, Sleep Deprivation, Insulin Resistance
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Sleep efficiency: how much time you spend asleep divided by how much time you are in bed. The first night may show better sleep; removing someone from their natural sleep environment may lead to them having a better night of sleep on the first night. Can simulate by sleep deprivation by increasing light, playing loud sounds, add stressors (give someone a really hard task and make them fail). Can also monitor a person"s eeg, whenever they reach a certain sleep stage, wake them up with a loud sound. Deprivation of stage n2 sleep harder to learn stuff the next day. Waking up at different points of the night. Sleep efficiency: percent of time you"re actually asleep among your time in bed. In lab, you would spend less time in bed; in real life, you may take an hour to fall asleep in bed.
