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    Joey Hernandez Boston ENGL 1301.6020 2 November 2012 The most beautiful thing on the earth… Sleep. Procrastination‚ the biggest downfall of the students across the educational world‚ many people joke on the subject‚ such as high schools throughout America claim to have a “procrastinators unite club” the joke being that the club is always uniting tomorrow. Every student has procrastinated at one point in their studies‚ whether it is last minute cramming for a big test or writing an explanatory

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    each night is seven to eight hours. Many people have trouble getting this amount of sleep. Between work‚ family obligations‚ and household chores‚ too often a person gets only a few hours of sleep a night. What effect does sleep deprivation have on people? Sleep deprivation has a definite effect on learning‚ memory‚ and the ability to think clearly. If a person is not able to get a full night’s sleep after learning something new‚ he will not remember the new knowledge well. He will not fully assimilate

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    Unit 1 Sensory Impairment

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    first step in supporting people with a sensory impairment appropriately is to identify them. Local authorities should put in place a process to understand the prevalence of sensory loss in their populations to inform commissioning and market shaping functions. They should also have in place systems to record the number of people known to them. In identifying people with sensory impairment it is important to have in mind that: • There is a high prevalence of sensory loss amongst older people. • People

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    Three reasons for believing in the accuracy or inaccuracy of sensory information is perception‚ interpretation‚ and knowledge. Perception is our sensory experience of the world around us and involves both the recognition of environmental stimuli and actions in response to these stimuli (Bagley‚ 2004). Through the perceptual process‚ we gain information about properties and elements of the environment that are critical to our survival. Perception not only creates our experience of the world around

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    Unit 31 Sensory loss

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    Level 3 unit 31 Understand sensory loss 1 Understand the factors that impact on an individual with sensory loss 1.2 analyse how societal attitudes and beliefs impact on individuals with sensory loss Any type of sensory loss can cause people to experience the ways in which society treats them differently. People often believe that any type of sensory loss also reduces people’s capacity to understand. Individuals may feel a loss of independence‚ as carers‚ family members‚ or members of the

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    Chapter 16: Sensory‚ Motor and Integrative Systems 1. Sensory Modalities: touch‚ pain‚ vision and hearing a. General Senses: both‚ somatic and visceral i. Somatic: tactile‚ Thermal‚ Pain‚ Proprioceptive ii. Visceral: internal organs b. Special Senses: Smell‚ Taste‚ Vision‚ Hearing‚ Equilibrium‚ Balance 2. Process of Sensation c. Stimulation of a sensory receptor d. Transduction of the stimulus e. Generation of nerve impulses

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    Running head: Sleep Deprivation‚ Disorders and Drugs Sleep Deprivation‚ Disorders and Drugs Axia College of University of Phoenix There was a time when I was not getting sleep; it affected almost every aspect of my being and definitely my personality. Reading the text written by Pinel‚ I realize many of the descriptions of sleeplessness fit those very memorable‚ yet miserable days. My opinion on my reaction to sleeplessness concurred fairly well with the text‚ though I did not consider myself

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    Another physiological process that sleep deprivation can affect is the plasticity of the hippocampus. When applied in stressful environments‚ the amount of glucocorticoid production increases (McEwen‚ 1999). This increase in stress hormones correlates to the atrophy or the shrinkage of the hippocampal region. While this correlation is strongly related‚ other factors do in fact play a part in hippocampal atrophy. For example‚ the amount of dentate gyrus neurons in the brain could also have an effect

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    The effects of Sleep Deprivation What is Sleep Deprivation? Physiological Effects 2.1 Diabetes 2.2 Effects on the Brain 2.3 Effects on the healing process 2.4 Attention and working memory 2.5 Impairment of ability. 2.6 Microsleeps 2.7 Weight gain/loss Sleep apnea Mental illness School Counteracting the effects of sleep deprivation Longest period without sleep Main Body Discussion How does sleep deprivation affect Your Mental and Physical Health? How to Recover from missed

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    ready to sleep. Sleep deprivation is a condition that occurs if one doesn’t get enough sleep. However‚ the sleep deprivation affects college students‚ and the rate becomes higher when the final exams approach. Also‚ social life‚ jobs and relationships with friends are more important than sleep. Accidents‚ losing concentration‚ and becoming more stressful are various problems due to sleep deprivation. Sleep deprivation affects college students firstly in accidents. Sleep deprivation has become a big problem

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