investigated the effects of naturalistic stressors on measure of immunity. Measures of natural killer cells (NK) were taken from blood samples of 75 medical students 1 month before their finals (low stress) as well as during their exams (high stress). These students also completed a questionnaire on negative life events and social isolation. It was found that NK
Rosie Anaya, a student in college wrote an essay last year about the physiological problems that affect our college students called, The Best Kept Secret on Campus. These problems can range from anxiety to depression to acute bipolar disorder. She talks about the staggering numbers of students with these problems and the lack of help from the universities. In this essay she states that a 2008 study found that “62% of students have experienced feelings of hopelessness, nearly 90% have felt overwhelmed or emotionally exhausted, nearly 50% have been so depressed they have trouble functioning, 15% have been formally diagnosed with depression and almost 10% contemplated suicide. These numbers are surprisingly high; however a vast majority of students are not receiving the help they need to deal with these major disabilities.
Procedural memory-the deep slow-wave stages happens in the last two hours of sleep, declarative-the same as procedural, but falls during the first two hours of sleep. He states that when we learn new skills after 24 hours of not sleeping, in a week the information will diminish. Kotler blames educators in encouraging the sleeplessness. The article also looks at the eating habits of the college students. A survey at Tufts University finds found that 50 percent of students are lots of fat and over 7o percent ate a significant amount of saturated fats.
This essay is Regarding research methods one in psychology. The Stroop Effect in essence is name a color word written on an opposing color. Comparison of Reaction Times for the Stroop Colour Word Task Catherine Gorman Edith Cowan University Joondalup WA Abstract The Stroop colour word task has fascinated psychologists for many years, ever since JR Stroop discovered the phenomenon in 1935, showing interference between conflicting cognitive processes relating to attention. This experiment was designed to examine the Stroop colour word task, to ascertain that it takes longer to say the incongruent colour word (naming the colour, not the written word itself) as opposed to the nonsense colour word. Eight participants volunteered to participate in this experiment.
Gender Differences in Distress and Jealousy for Different Types of Infidelity Melissa M. Alonso University of Oregon Abstract This study investigated the gender differences in jealousy and distress for different types of infidelity. The study consisted of 726 participants of which 61.2% were females and 38.8% were males. Students from a psychology 303 class at the University of Oregon, myself included, recruited people from convenience. Participants were surveyed regarding hypothetical relationship infidelity situations (sexual vs. emotional) and reported distress and jealousy responses. The results showed a significant main effect of gender.
In a more narrow and specific research, the National Institution of Mental Health reported that suicide was the third leading cause of death among youth ages 15 to 24 in 2007 (NIMH 2007). In 2011, the American College Health Association (ACHA) performed the National College Health Assessment (NCHA), which was a nationwide survey of college students at two or four year institutions, and found that about 30% of them testified having felt so depressed at some point in the past year that they find it difficult to
Outline and evaluate research into STM and LTM. 12 Marks One key study into STM was researched by Peterson and Lloyd to 24 students that went to their university. Whereby an experimenter said a constant syllable to the participant followed by a 3 digit number – and immediately after hearing the syllable the participant had to count backwards in 3’s or 4’s until told to stop. Then the participant was asked to recall the syllable. They found that participants remembered about 90% when there was only a second interval; but this dropped to 2% when an 18 second interval was emplaced.
Christopher Duffy “Discuss how stress can affect the mature student and how one can reduce the impact of it” Applied writing May 2009-02-18 Introduction This essay will focus on the causes and effect of stress in the mature student as well as examining ways of identifying and combating stress. It will discuss exactly what, if anything makes the lives of mature students more stressful than other students. Results of a recent study published in a British journal of educational taking over 2 year period on 134 university students found that “mature students achieved a higher final degree GPA compared to younger under graduates, with female mature students significantly out performing their counter parts in each assessment” (shared). These results would indicate that a mature student feels less stressed than a younger one, however a results are based solely on academic success in can be assumed that this is due to maturity levels and a greater understanding of what they want, it is hard to learn anything on the students state of mind during this period. According to figures published by the HEA (Higher Education Authority) 9.4% of third level students are mature students (2008).
Then students were experimented with a test that would go towards their grade and extra credit if they volunteered students that volunteered there were 129 from the list and 60 of students were chosen, had to think out loud and they were split up into three groups based on the performance of their three previous 70 question exam. And the 20 “A” students scored greater than 90, “C” students had averages of 70-76 and “F” students scored an average of 60 and each group was consisted of 12 females and 8 males. Then they tested “M” students which were allowed as much time to complete the exam, which was still 70 questions. They students who did the exam said it was an ease with the instruction they had on the exam. With the A, C, And F
Insufficient sleep has become an epidemic among college students. After conducting a research in which I questioned 15 college students, I discovered that 12 out of the 15 students had admitted to feeling depressed or having felt symptoms of depression. These same students admitted to only having a maximum of 6 hours of sleep per night. The correlation between the two is uncanny. Think back to your college years and the relentless nights spent studying and working on college assignments.