UW Psych Classroom Observation

Students need a good amount of sleep to be able to focus and get through the school day. Students ability to function during school is impacted by the quantity, regularity, and quality if their sleep (Wolfson 1). The quality of sleep is not only important for the students but it is also important for the teachers. The quality of sleep affects the way students and teachers act throughout the day. Daytime sleepiness and poor sleep quality on school days in students and teachers may comprise school and work performance (De Souza 5). Since students and teachers stay up so late at night, they tend to be very tired during the day. It is important to get sleep but it is more important to get a good sleep. There is not really a point in sleeping or trying to get sleep when it is not a good sleep because no matter what students will be tired during the day. While the quality of sleep is important, so is the amount of sleep a student or teacher is getting on school nights.

There is a wide group of people that could be the potential audience. It could be high school students that could read about this and are

Each year, I choose 2 students to represent our program and let others know what this program is all about.

Almost every day high school students are waking up around six o’clock in the morning to get ready for school, some even earlier than that. Nearly every morning students are waking up without adequate sleep. If sleep is one of the most essential needs of the body in order to grow and develop, shouldn’t we be more aware of how much it affects students everyday performance? The ways in which students are affected by sleep-deprivation is precisely why school needs to start later.

The research question revolved around whether the amount and extent of workload a student has at their disposal, how would it affect their length and quality of sleep? My hypothesis was that as student’s workload increases, the amount of sleep they receive should decrease in length and quality. Based off the results of the survey, my prediction

Sleep hours were then investigated to illuminate the impact it has on GPA. ANOVA (A-test #1) results indicated that subjects that got 0-4 hours of sleep had a GPA of (3.441 ∓ .168, n=6), 4-7 hours of sleep (3.364 ∓ .365, n=76), and finally 7-10 hours of sleep (3.374 ∓ .316, n=63)(p=.0919)(Figs._____). There was no statistical significance differences between group means by one-way ANOVA, F(2,142)=2.42,p=.0919 {F= F statistic, df (between)=2 , df (within)=142, F ratio=2.42}(.

A total of 70 students from the United States apply to participate in the experiment that lasted for two weeks. Most of them were whom was going to attend summer courses students at Stanford University and

This project is supposed to produce an exciting and challenging atmosphere for everyone who participating while they will also doing something meaningful to our society.

The person that I decided to observed was someone that I did not know too well, her name is Maggie and she is in my biology class. Since, I have only known her for a few weeks and she is not in my psych class, I figured she would be the ideal person that I should observe because she would not be familiar with what I was doing. I was waiting in the hallway for my biology class to start when I noticed Maggie outside the building. Maggie pulls the door open with her dominant hand; the door swings open and hits the wall. She rushes inside the building before the door can close. As Maggie makes it inside the building without the door slamming right into her, she speed walks in front of this couple. Maggie approaches me and the only thing that is

Students will be asked to share their answers to the question voluntarily and some be called on.

Sample: During the spring semester at the University of Toronto, 42 undergraduate students chose to participate in this experiment after seeing advertisements around campus. After contacting the researchers, blind participants were randomly assigned to one of three conditions for three upcoming sessions. Due to failure of participants not attending all 3 required sessions or computer

In life, people are given obstacles so that they have the chance to overcome them and as a result learn more about themselves. The movie, “Front of the class”, is about a boy named Brad Cohen with tourette syndrome. Tourette syndrome (TS) is a neurological disorder characterized by repetitive, stereotyped, involuntary movements and vocalizations called tics. Inspired by his principal who told him that he is capable of being successful in life, Braid decided to become a teacher so that he could educate children about his syndrome, or what he called “ a constant companion” as well as educate the children about other disorders out there and teaching them how to accept it in society.

We had given them use cases to try out, including navigation of the landing page, signing up, logging in and searching. Of these participants, two were international students while the other three were local students.