3 COLLECTIONS OF ARTICLES RELATED TO RECENT SLEEP STUDIES

This week’s Psychology Update presents three collections of articles related to recent sleep studies.  Each collection highlights several aspects of normal sleep, problematic sleep (and repair), and other sleep related phenomena.  View these collections as resources in the popular press to be used with the class topic of sleep as well as a starting point for students who wish to further investigate the phenomena related to sleep.

ARTICLE #1

TITLE

Time Guide to Sleep:  The Science of Sleep

SOURCE

Time Magazine Collection Guides

LINK TO RESOURCE

http://time.com/collection/guide-to-sleep/

ARTICLE #2

TITLE

How To Get A Better Night’s Sleep

SOURCE

New York Times

LINK TO RESOURCE

https://www.nytimes.com/well/guides/how-to-sleep

ARTICLE #3

TITLE

The Scientist:  Sleep articles collection

SOURCE

The Scientist (article collection)

LINK TO RESOURCE

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.list/tagNo/424/tags/sleep/

(Tiny URL)  https://tinyurl.com/la3nwdp

CLASS DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

•What is sleep?

•How and why do Psychologists study sleep?

•What is considered “normal” for infants, children, teens, adults, and elderly?

•What are the various sleep disorders?   Causes?  Therapies?

•Have a class discussion on the functions of sleep and dreaming (REM states).