Five nights of sleep restriction cause lower quiz performance in a simulated classroom among adolescents¶
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q3 i3 Adolescents performed worse on educational-film quizzes after 5 nights of 6.5-hour sleep restriction than after 5 nights of 10-hour healthy sleep, with a large effect size. → Beebe 2010
Evidence¶
Beebe 2010¶
Beebe, D. W., Rose, D., & Amin, R. (2010). Attention, Learning, and Arousal of Experimentally Sleep-Restricted Adolescents in a Simulated Classroom. The Journal of Adolescent Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2010.03.005
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Counterbalanced within-subject sleep manipulation of 16 healthy adolescents (5 nights 6.5 vs 10 hours in bed), assessed Saturday mornings in a simulated classroom with 12-item quizzes after 30-minute educational films, intelligence covaried. Quiz scores were worse after sleep restriction: "F(2,15)=4.6, p=.05, ηp2=.25".
"Compared to the HD condition, while in the SD condition participants performed worse on the quizzes, F(2,15)=4.6, p=.05, ηp2=.25"
Discussion¶
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Five nights of sleep restriction cause lower quiz performance in a simulated classroom among adolescents |
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Five nights of sleep restriction cause lower quiz performance in a simulated classroom among adolescents |
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2010 |
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