www.elsevier.com/locate/smrv CLINICAL REVIEW Sleep loss‚ learning capacity and academic performance Giuseppe Curcioa‚Â Michele Ferraraa‚b‚ Luigi De Gennaroa a Department of Psychology‚ University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’‚ Rome‚ Italy Department of Internal Medicine and Public Health‚ University of L’Aquila‚ Rome‚ Italy b KEYWORDS Sleep deprivation; Learning; Memory; Academic performance; Neurocognitive functioning; Adolescents; Prefrontal cortex Summary At a time when
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Video Games Have Negative Effects Video games are addicting too many people around the world. These video games play a huge role in people’s lives‚ and today over 50% of all people play some type of video game. With this large amount of gamers‚ there are so many that are negatively impacted in numerous ways. Although there are few benefits with video games such as; educational purposes‚ improving social skills‚ and stress relief‚ there are more bad things including academic failure‚ social isolation
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to the Academic Performance of Students in the Statistics Course in Psychology ` ´ JOAN GUARDIA∗ ‚ MONTSERRAT FREIXA‚ MARIBEL PERO‚ JAUME TURBANY‚ ANTONIO COSCULLUELA‚ MAITE BARRIOS ` and XAVIER RIFA Dept. de Metodologia de les Ci` ncies del Comportament‚ Facultat de Psicologia‚ Divisi´ de e o Ci` ncies de la Salut (IV)‚ Universitat de Barcelona‚ Passeig de la Vall d’Hebron‚ 171‚ 08035 e Barcelona‚ Spain Abstract. Many studies have examined the factors that influence academic performance
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Gender Differences in Students’ Academic Performance Students with urban and suburban backgrounds consistently outperformed students from rural and small-town areas. Parental education levels correlated with academic success. Considering the background of the study’s female participants one could reasonably expect women to outperform men. However‚ in spite of the higher indicators of success possessed by women‚ this expectation was not fulfilled. Data and background predictions did not match up
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Matthew Wills Dr. Toby Beeny English 1000 April 17‚ 2013 Do Video Games Improve Cognition? In today’s society‚ video games are becoming ever more popular and the more popularity video games receive‚ the more research that will be done on the topic. Many years ago you may have heard of Pac-Man‚ Donkey Kong‚ and of course the “classic” Super Mario. Today we have better technology and millions of different games out there that can put gamers in tough situations and can lure them to play for hours
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“THE EFFECT OF STUDY HABITS OF SELECTED MARINE STUDENT TO THEIR ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE” A Research Paper Presented to the College of Arts Department In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Course English Presented To Sir. Joel E. Payapa‚ Ed.D Presented By Cercado‚ Joshua Kim T. Daniel‚ John Daniel M. De Guzman‚ John Odilon T. March 15‚ 2013 Chapter 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND Introduction The extent of student’s learning in academics may be determined
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St. Mary’s Academy of Carmen Carmen‚ Cagayan de Oro City PAASCU Accredited “Computer Gaming Effects to the Academic Performance among High school students” A Research paper presented to Ms. Malou B. Cagalitan In partial fulfillment of the requirements in English 10 Valerie G. Maurin 10-Charity February 27‚ 2012 Outline I. Introduction A. Significance of the Study B. Objectives of the Study 1. Objective 1 2. Objective 2 3. Objective 3 C. Scope and
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The Good and Bad Effects of Video Games Video and computer games‚ like many popular‚ entertaining and addicting kid activities‚ are looked down upon by many parents as time-wasters‚ and worse‚ parents think that these games rot the brain. Also‚ violent video games are readily blamed by the media and some experts as the reason why some youth become violent or commit extreme anti-social behavior. But many scientists and psychologists find that video games actually have many benefits – the main one
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by academic performance. Over the years‚ the importance of students doing well in school has become the common concern of parent‚ legislators‚ teachers‚ counselors and psychologist. According to Bell (2002)‚ parents devote a lot of resources to their children ’s education because they believe that good academic performance will provide a stable future for them. Also‚ Wilkins (2001) opined that many educational authorities have sought to find out reasons for the downward trend in the academic performance
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The Positive and Negative Effects of Video Games http://www.raisesmartkid.com/3-to-6-years-old/4-articles/34-the-good-and-bad-effects-of-video-games Is playing video games good or bad for you? It can be both. Video games are frowned upon by parents as time-wasters‚ and worse‚ some education experts think that these games corrupt the brain. Violent video games are easily blamed by the media and some experts as the reason why some young people become violent or commit extreme anti-social behavior
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