The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Stephen Covey authored the book‚ The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People‚ to offer his expert‚ professional‚ and personal insight of seven habits‚ or traits‚ exhibited by effective people. While outlining the seven habits‚ he emphasizes that each previous habit is the building block for the next. He also shows how all the habits are tied together to effectively transition through the growth stages of dependence to independence to interdependence to become
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Abstract For the purposes of this observation the child observed will be referred to as Jake. The differences in time spent with Jake by students of the University of Alaska Southeast student housing community were observed and recorded for this study. Jake was observed for increments of two hours daily for one week. During this observation the amount of time individuals spent carrying‚ playing‚ or interacting with Jake was recorded as well as the individual ’s age and gender. Individuals who spent
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Sleep Disorders Sleep disorders are a part of more than 40 million American ’s lives. It is estimated that 60 percent of adults have sleep problems at least a few nights a week and as a result more than 40 percent of adults experience mild to severe daytime sleepiness. Children also experience sleep troubles‚ with 69 percent of kids presenting problems several nights a week. There are many variations of sleep disorders‚ including parasomnias. A parasomnia is a disturbance in the sleep
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Joshua Hammer Jessica Worthington PSY 101-232 21 June‚ 2013 Sleeping Disorder A sleeping disorder that was discussed in Module 7 was Narcolepsy. Many people around the world are affected by this disorder a person with such disorder may go an entire day feeling the urge to sleep and always feeling fatigued. Narcolepsy is defined as a “Chronic disorder that is marked by excessive sleepiness‚ usually in the form of sleep attacks or short periods of sleep throughout the day. The sleep attacks
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Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about sleep disorders. Central Idea: Today I want to inform you on sleep disorders. First I will talk about insomnia. Second I will talk about sleep apnea‚ and finally I will talk about narcolepsy. Introduction Attention Getter: Do you know that awesome feeling when you get into bed‚ fall right to sleep‚ stay asleep all night‚ and wake up feeling refreshed? Well‚ me neither. I. According to The Institute of Medicine of The National Academies
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explanations for insomnia and/or narcolepsy. (8 marks + 16 marks) Explanations of narcolepsy are in majority biological. Scientists have discovered that narcoleptics often are lacking in hypocretin which is a chemical in the brain that control sleep and wakefulness. A lack of this chemical may explain the sudden attacks of sleep. Sakurai (2007) highlighted how there are about 10‚000-20‚000 hypocretin-producing cells in a normal hypothalamus‚ but people with narcolepsy have a significantly lower amount
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healthy lifestyle. When you have a sleeping disorder this can be hard to achieve when it is impossible to get 8 hours of sleep‚ which is the average sleep an adult needs to receive. The three main sleeping disorders are Insomnia‚ sleep apnea‚ and narcolepsy. Insomnia. Insomnia has a very broad spectrum of a definition ranging from lack of sleep quality to the lack of sleep quantity. There are three different types of insomnia talking about the time frames. Transient‚ lasting only a couple of days
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together is that they disrupt in one or more parts of out sleep cycle."(Zimbardo pg.98) The three types of sleep disorders are: insomnia‚ narcolepsy and sleep apnea. These disorders make a night’s sleep sometimes hard
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nightmare even though you’re awake. Now imagine the inability to sleep altogether‚ the nightmares of your actions haunt your dreams to the point where you can no longer sleep at all. All of the scenarios stated are symptoms of a condition called narcolepsy‚ a disease in which sleep becomes a difficult task to complete‚ causing unrest‚ excessive daytime sleepiness‚ hallucinations‚ sleepwalking‚ and many other dangerous symptoms. These characteristics match that of Lady MacBeth from William Shakespeare’s
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supports the theory that hypnosis involves:| A)|dissociation.| B)|psychological dependence.| C)|role-playing.| D)|hypnogogic sensations.| 12.|The experience of insomnia following discontinued use of a psychoactive drug best illustrates:| A)|narcolepsy.| B)|withdrawal.| C)|REM rebound.| D)|dissociation.| E)|sleep apnea.| 13.|Which of the following psychoactive drugs produces the quickest and most powerful rush of euphoria?| A)|alcohol| B)|marijuana| C)|cocaine|
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