Chirp chirp, there’s a bright light hitting the window that then travels to illuminate an individual’s face. That is what everyone wakes up to. Everyone has the desire to stretch their body immediately after getting out of bed, yet no one really wants to leave their warm bed. These are the struggles people face every day to wake up in the morning. There are two different kinds of people: morning and afternoon. Morning people have internal clocks that make them get up early no matter what. Afternoon individuals, do not get up until they feel that they can no longer sleep. These descriptions fit perfectly for the researcher and researcher’s sister. The researcher is a morning person, and his sister is an afternoon person. Why do sleeping patterns …show more content…
Is it a habit for individuals to wake up early or late?
What is a habit? A habit is a routine that is done repeatedly without thinking about it. Individuals have habits that they do not pay attention to unless pointed out. In the researcher’s study, he observed himself for one to two days, to see what his habit was. The researcher’s findings, showed that his habit was waking up early (Ramirez, J, Observation, June 5, 2015). Does waking up early have any effect on a person? Eliasson’s study (Eliasson, 2010), shows the readers that there is a connection between waking up early and GPA. According to Eliasson, college students that get enough sleep and wake up early get better grades than those that do not get enough sleep (Eliasson, 2010). The researcher said that waking up early has been a habit for him at a young age
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Does waking up late have any consequences? Society has made it a habit for individuals to get up early or late. Individuals have less time throughout the day because they tend to sleep in instead of waking up early. The researcher interviewed his sister to see if waking up late has any benefits or consequences. The researcher’s sister said that “waking up late is a habit that started at a young age” (Ramirez, A, Interview, June 5, 2015). According to Christodulu’s study (Christodulu, 2004), individuals often wake up late because at a young age they could not sleep well at night. The researcher asked his sister if this was true in her experience and her response was yes. The researcher’s sister said that at a young age she could not sleep well and has had the habit of waking up late (Ramirez, A, Interview, June 5, 2015). In Christodulu’s study (Christodulu, 2004), she mentions that individuals that wake up late often take more naps and are likely to procrastinate to do duties. The researcher interviewed his sister and asked her “Do you take naps during the day? If yes, how many and how long on a normal day?”( Ramirez, A, Interview, June 5, 2015), Her response was that she often takes two to three naps per day for about an hour each. The finding shows that Christodoulou study has a connection to younger children that have a bad sleeping pattern. Another study that is similar to Christodolou is Durand. In
The article “ Waking Up and Taking Charge” by Anya Kamenetz is a passage from her book “ Generation Debt: Why Now is a Terrible Time to be Young” which was published in December 2006.The passage talks about taking a stand against student debt and how college becomes more and more out of reach each year. Student debt as a whole, not only college loans but also credit card debt for young adults.
All children need sleep and want sleep during the weekdays and that is very difficult. It has been noticed that older students and younger students, such as third graders and eleventh graders, sleep patterns are very different. In many places it is the same way that middle schools and high school start earlier than elementary schools. The problem is that adolescents stay up at least two and a half hours later than younger children do (Bergin 2). Older kids stay up for various reasons and younger children can fall asleep easier and earlier than high school students. Kids from elementary school all the way to high school tend to get up at relatively the same time but as stated before older kids go to sleep later than younger children. Ages 3-17 children tend to get up at the same time which is 7 a.m. (Bergin 1). The sleep patterns differ between high school students and elementary students but they are also very different between students and teachers.
Charles Duhigg’s The Power of Habit, acknowledges how habits control our daily lives in every decision we make. For Instance, an ambitious woman named Lisa Allen, has not always had a fruitful life. Previously, she had abused her body with harmful toxins such as tobacco and alcohol since the beginning of her teenage years. Carrying out these habits everyday resulted her into being unmotivated and unconfident. In fact, she never kept a job longer than a year and began to fall into major debt. “She needed a goal in her life, she thought. Something to work toward” (xii-xiv). It begins with the “three-step loop” a cue that triggers our brain to do the habit. Next a routine, a set of actions that are either physical or mental. Finally a reward of satisfaction that determines whether or not this habit will be continuous (19). Not all habits can be good, but this is where the golden rule applies. Duhigg explains that in order for you to change your habit “ you must keep the old cue, and deliver the old reward, but insert a new routine”(62). “However, simply understanding how habits work- learning the structure of the habit loop makes them easier to control”( 20). Reading The Power of Habit, helped me understand the process by which I made a positive change to fight procrastination.
...austed from lack of sleep. Sleep, a necessity, is an interesting subject. People who stay up later, not necessarily avoiding sleep, tend to be more intelligent, proven with studies and the time of day may affect activities throughout the day.
According to the National Sleep Foundation, biological sleep patterns change throughout the stages of adolescence. ¨Biological sleep patterns shift toward later times for both sleeping and waking during adolescence-meaning it is natural to not be able to fall asleep before 11:00pm.¨ (¨Teens and Sleep¨). Messing with these sleep cycles in the long run and lead to sleep disorders. Research done by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests teenagers 13-18 years old should regularly sleep 8-10 hours each night for a healthy sleep. The teens who do not get a good amount of sleep are more likely to suffer from mental conditions, smoking, illicit drugs, and alcohol use. ¨Not getting enough sleep is common among high school students and is associated with several health risks including being overweight, drinking alcohol, smoking tobacco, and using drugs, as well as poor academic performance.¨ (¨Schools Start Too Early¨). On an NBC news story, Hilton Head Island High School moved its start time and benefits were noticeable. Students had higher test score averages and grades improved throughout the school.A study done in 2008 published in the journal of clinical sleep, found car accident rates fell by 16.5% when students were more aware on the road, not having to wake up before 7 am.
For instance, students grades and test scores can be improved greatly by the etra sleep offered.To be more precise parents belive classes before 8:30a.m threatens acedemic performances greatly. More specifically starting classes later will improve grades in class and boosts standardized test scores. Students with a lower ability receive a better impact from delayed start times In 1998, Amy wolfson and Mary Carskadon surveyed more than 3000 high school and middle school students. They found that the students getting 25 fewer minutes of sleep got C’s,D’s and F’s. The students that went to bed earlier got A’s and B’s.
There are many bad habits these days and the most serious one for me is stay up late all the time and not energetic enough in the morning. This behavior is called sleep procrastination. Just as the words from the researchers at Utrecht University, “pre-bed procrastination is the latest diagnosable strain of mismanaged time, stopping us from shutting off when we should and causing us to fritter away valuable snoozing opportunities on unnecessary tasks.” Indeed, such tiny behavior has already spread out the entire campus and wastes energy and time. Therefore, trying to correct this behavior by using psychological ways, I decided to use operant conditioning, the process of associating
In the article titled “Why School Should Start Later in the Morning,” author Emily Richmond states that “Researchers analyzed data from more than 9,000 students at eight high schools in Minnesota, Colorado, and Wyoming and found that shifting the school day later in the morning resulted in a boost in attendance, test scores, and grades in math, English, science, and social studies” (Richmond). On the other hand, if schools do not start earlier, grades and academics will not improve or will not be as high as they could be because of the effects lack of sleep has on the brain. For example, regular thought processes are slower in people if they do not get enough sleep; people are more prone to a lack of alertness and a lack of concentration (Peri). So, it is harder for students to focus in classrooms and pay attention to the tasks at hand. A lack of sleep can also impair one’s memory making it difficult for students to retain the material they learn in school (Peri). These effects apply to student athletes as well; if an athlete does not get enough sleep as he needs, his performance in his sport will not be as stellar because of his inability to be as alert and as focused as he
If all of these important activities occur during sleep, why is it that people are so willing to short themselves of this vital activity? Although much about sleep still remains a mystery, research and experiments continue to show how important sleep is to each and every person. Throughout this paper, I will discuss sleep and the effects that it has on performance and health, especially among college students. A college student’s sleeping pattern is a reliable indicator of their level of performance in the classroom and other school-affiliated activities, as a lack of sleep leads to decreased performance. Sleep is directly related to the level of performance and health of an individual; the more rested a person is, the better that person will perform and feel (Dryer, 2006).
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In conclusion, the moderately enhanced results leads to think that the naps did have positive effects on all three test results, but not to the extend that was hypothesized. Perhaps a more ordered and organized napping and sleep schedule would allow for greater and more significant improvements. A further analysis in the domain of effects of napping on performance, either cognitive or physical, should strive to measure the impact of tightly arranged schedule to allow for naps to occur at relatively the same time everyday, as well as having a similar length, paired with comparable amount of sleep the night prior to engaging in napping. This would allow assessing the true effects of naps on an individual much more effectively.
Sleep studies have been around for as far back as 1913. The start times of school and how it affects student academics is not usually looked at by most schools, but start times actually affect academic performance because it changes adolescents normal sleep cycle, creates a lack of sleep which affects the way children learn, and later start times create better performance. All of these theories have been tested with sleep studies and most of them were found to be true.
The alarm goes off at six am and the typical high school student is barely able to open their eyes. It is time to get up and prepare for a full day at school, about eight hours. Most teenagers, according to the National Sleep Foundation, will only get about six hours of sleep since they tend to stay up until midnight (“Should schools start later in the day?”). After getting ready, many students look forward to a nap in their first hour class despite the information they will miss. Teenagers seem to always have had trouble getting up in the morning, even earning the title of lazy from their parents. However, recent research on adolescent sleep patterns has produced a biological explanation for this tendency. This raises a serious question: why are high schools starting early in the morning when teenagers are biologically programmed to sleep in? For most cases, school start time has not been conformed to fit student physiological needs simply because of transportation issues.
Important public policy issues have arisen in our modern 24-hour society, where it is crucial to weigh the value of sleep versus wakefulness. Scientific knowledge about sleep is currently insufficient to resolve the political and academic debates raging about how much and when people should sleep. These issues affect almost everybody, from the shift worker to the international traveler, from the physician to the policy maker, from the anthropologist to the student preparing for an exam.