By: Christine Ro
Published: BBC, 9 October 2018, http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20181009-how-sleep-helps-with-emotional-recovery-and-trauma
Level of Difficulty:** (This an easy Level
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BEFORE YOU READ
·
The benefits of a
good night’s sleep https://www.ted.com/talks/shai_marcu_the_benefits_of_a_good_night_s_sleep?language=en
·
How sleep affects
memory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0Rd--E2uZU
QUESTIONS
1.
Since napless children are notoriously bad tempered we can conclude that
naps must be ….
2.
It has been proven
that sleep is, in fact, invaluable because…
3.
We understand from
the research mentioned in the text that the more……the ….. events are remembered
4.
The reason for the
above is that these memories…
5.
What was the
result of Bollinger’s experiment? What conclusion can be drawn from this
experiment?
6.
What conclusion
can be drawn from the portion of the experiment involving LPP?
7.
REM sleep helps
people to become better at evaluating emotions due to the fact that….
8.
Without the
prefrontal cortex to provide control, we would…
9.
Upsetting
experiences turn up in dreams so that they…
10. Read the example taken from Spencer’s research. What
was the result of the research?
11. What conclusion can be drawn from the experiment
described above?
12. Why are
children and the elderly more in need of naps for emotional processing?
13. The types of
memories seem to vary throughout life for psychological reasons / for physical
reasons / for practical reasons / for educational reasons.
14. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ0cMTX2KIU
How could sleep help people with this
problem?
15. How did
experts come up with the idea of sleeplessness to help treat depression? Why does
sleeplessness work?
16. What is the
reason for the advice given to people with a mutation of the BDNF gene?
WRITING TASK
Write a 100 to 150
word summary of the text.
WHEN THE GOING
GETS TOUGH, HAVE A NAP; KEY AND TEACHERS’ NOTES
This text has
given me the opportunity to write certain types of questions, mainly those that
require the student to draw conclusions, state reasons and results. I hope they
find it useful.
1.
Doing something to process emotions
2.
It plays a key
role in encoding information based on experiences from the day
3.
The amygdale is
activated, the better
4.
These memories
are processed for longer and reiterated
more than more trivial memories
5. Children
who slept were better able to control their emotional responses / Sleep
is particularly good at transforming emotional memory
6. Sleep
helps with both crystallising emotional information – and with controlling how
it makes us feel
7. The
stress hormone noradrenaline is absent during REM sleep
8. We
would not keep calm and would just react to things immediately
9. Can
be contextualized against more settled
memories and the sting can be removed
10. Kids
are really emotional without naps, and they’re hypersensitive to emotional
stimuli (because they haven’t
consolidated the emotional baggage from earlier that day).
11. The
amount of SWS activity during sleep affects how emotional memories are
transformed.
12. Children have
a less developed hippocampus and the elderly could have a
similar degeneration of hippocampus storage with ageing
13. For
practical reasons
14. It
might help with reminding them that they’ve eliminated their fear
15. The natural biological response following
intense trauma is that we have insomnia / REM sleep deprivation harms the
brain’s ability to consolidate emotional memories
16. It would minimise
the amount of REM sleep
