PSYC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Asthma, Sleep Walk, Chemotherapy
8 Dec 2015
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Partial deprivation or sleep restriction impaired attention, reaction time, coordination, decision making. Sleep deprivation studies indicate that people can function surprisingly well when sleep deprived; although effects on mood and performance are present, these are modest. Effects would be more severe, except most people have a hard time going without sleep for more than 3 or 4 days max. Sleep restriction, or partial deprivation, occurs when people make do with less sleep than normal very common can cause negative effects, particularly in performance, with long-lasting, difficult, or monotonous taskscan be very, very costly three. Mile island, chernobyl, and the exxon valdez were all ecological disasters caused in part by sleep deprivation on the part of workers. When researchers wake subjects up whenever they go into rem sleep, thus depriving them of this one particular stage, they find that soon, the person will try to go back into rem faster. Pretty soon, the researchers have to wake them up almost constantly.
