Dual-Processing Analysis

In my paper, I will tackle insomnia from various perspectives: definitions, types, causes, effects, and means of solutions.

(Attention Getter) Do you have ever thought that why you feel dizzy even when you take a sleep of up to 6 hours? Why you cannot concentrate at your workplace, or cannot perform your academic activities as you want them to be? Why you often feel sleepy while the lecture is being delivered? Why even after a sleep of 6 hours, you do not feel fresh and vigilant?

For my first PLE I will write a response to chapter four about sleep and activity during sleep. Sleep is a very important part of everyday life because without it our bodies would be deprived. Sleep is split into a few different categories, some being REM sleep or rapid eye movement. REM sleep is often called active sleep because it is associated with heightened body and brain activity during which dreams normally occur. Then there is NREM sleep or non rapid eye movement sleep. This is where the brain and the body go into a dormant sleep where there is hardly any brain activity This NREM sleep is broken down into four stages which i will explain later. The first 90 minutes of sleep are the most important because that is the point where you

This is a short article written by a collaboration of people by a company named Today’s Science. Their main goal was to describe the pattern of sleep a human goes through during the night. This cycle is called NREM and REM, non-rapid eye movement and rapid eye movement. They mostly describe what happens during sleep because without sleeping you could not dream. Dreaming occurs during the rapid eye movement cyc

Thesis: Sleep deprivation can lead to serious health problems, make you forget information, and have a negative impact on the outlook of life.

Thesis: Sleep plays an essential part in a person’s health and well-being; the way we feel while awake is dependent upon what happens to your body while asleep.

his is a book of many virtues. It gives us an insider look at the birth of the sleep medicine specialty. It provides, in clear entertaining, first person-prose a first rate primer on the latest {"indings in sleep science. It speaks with the voice of a mature, humane, sane, and brilliant clinician. Most impressively it lays out in convincing detail the argument for the theory of the 24 mind. That theory, as I understand it, suggests that selected regions of the mind/brain are active and functional 24 hours a day. The

Sleep is a beneficial necessity, both from a scientific and psychological standpoint, improving both mental and physical health. It plays an essential role in our growth and development as human beings. During sleep, our brains are growing and preparing for the day ahead so that we may be productive and attentive in every daily task. Without the recommended minimum of eight hours of sleep each night, people get agitated, distracted easily, gain health problems, make bad decisions, and acquire feelings of sadness and depression. Sleep deprivation is harmful and can cause a large amount of irreversible damage to ones brain, increasing the risk of diseases, strokes, and even diabetes. Throughout history, many authors have written about characters

The sleep improvement program consisst of two sleep ohs pre- and post-Epworth scale, and a pre- and post-Munich Chronotype Questionnaire; in-order to measure and keep track of not only our sleep but our quality as well. Not only does it measure our sleep but its effectiveness as well by comparing our sleep before we used the techniques given to us in class. Analyzing my sleep prior to and post to implementing the changes and suggestions given to us in class to improve our sleep or maintain and healthy sleep cycle, my sleep didn 't improve greatly due to the world load I had. However I did try to keep my sleep constant sleep and wake time; and I did this by using the

I did not sleep well as a child. When I closed my eyes, I was not inundated with calming thoughts, nor fantastical images, but rather assaulted by existential anxieties which coaxed me into undesired ruminations about my being. I believed falling asleep was tantamount to relinquishing control over my ephemeral existence, as there was no guarantee of awakening. I found myself clinging to the present to the detriment of the future, desperately eschewing its hastened arrival for fear that it would not include me in its progression. And yet, every night, hour by hour, I would find myself succumbing to the physical and mental manifestations of sleep deprivation. I would come to plead for the very loss of control that I so viscerally feared, as

“there exist no certain marks by which the state of waking can ever be distinguished from sleep” (2).

Not many courses introduce the idea of sleep, so it had only been a side interest. I was unaware of the seriousness of the problem and only wanted to understand sleep disorders because I’ve dealt with insomnia myself. Not until college did it occur to me that sleep was serious enough that studying sleep was a profession. However, school has only taught me the minimal basics of sleep. I wanted to understand the mechanism, the consequences, and the treatments for sleep. Unable to get a better idea of sleep, I aimed to learn more about sleep research. Eventually through graduate research, I would like to focus on understanding sleep and its application in improving health.

There are several underlying conditions in cognitive psychology that we need to consider before adventuring in to the discussion of the effects of media types. Let us examine some of the important thoughts from cognitive science field on how the mind processes auditory and visual stimulus. One of the first premises is that of dual-coding processing. Allan Paivio first mentioned Dual-Code processing in 1971. Dr. Paivio posits that there are two subsystems that are structurally and functionally distinct, which process auditory and visual stimulus. (Paivio, 1986) One subsystem is for processing nonverbal content such as text, image, or video. The second subsystem is for processing verbal language. There are functionally distinct because one can close their eyes, listen to another person speak, and process the information, on the other hand, one can read a book quiet room. Lastly, these two subsystems can work together, as one is reading a book one can hear and understand a nearby conversation. As we can see, these processes are independent but if need be they may work simultaneously.

Sleep is a curious occurrence. It is a process that occurs only with time, a suitable environment, and willingness to do so (Helvig). Everyone has to sleep; however, not everyone’s sleep is the same. “In adult studies, it has been pointed out that no exact amount of ‘optimal’ sleep exists” (Dewald-Kaufmann 172). This would suggest that everyone has a different length of sleep they must achieve. If they do not, they will experience negative symptoms that develop exponentially over time (Dewald-Kaufmann 179). This works conversely, also, that a good night’s rest can aid the human body in many ways. Even though this is a simple concept to understand, it is a difficult concept to explain. One huge question that no one has been able to definitively answer is: why do we sleep? Perhaps the best way to answer this question is to look at the effects of a surplus of sleep and a lack of sleep.

In the brain, we form synapses to learn. Synapses are the connections in our brains. Scientists have many different theories as to why we sleep, and Giulio Tononi and Chiara Cirelli, biologists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison believe that during sleep our brains “prune” synapses for improved memory, and they “proposed that synapses grew so exuberantly during the day that our brain circuits got “noisy.” When we sleep, the scientists argued, our brains pare back the connections to lift the signal over the noise.” They also found indirect evidence to support their hypothesis of “Synaptic Homeostasis”. In one study, they found that the synapses in a sleeping mouse’s brain were 18% smaller than an awake mouse. In another study, Graham H.