Sleep Deprivation among college students is common. Persuasive speech about convincing college students to get more sufficient amount of sleep and take it more seriously. Public speaking 1315

1. “We use Thomas Edison Light Bulb
to Invade the Night”
-Russell Foster

3. Study or Sleep

4. That ONE
person
who Keeps
you up?

5. Reality
Psychosocial Demands

6. College Students
There is an Issue

7. “Most college students
are sleep deprived, as
70.6% of students
report obtaining less
than 8 hours of sleep”

8. What happens
when sleep?

9. Educate

10. Pineal
Gland
Melatonin

11. Why you
Should Sleep?

12. Effect on Memory

13. Guru of the college sleep crusade is James Maas
*48 years taught more than 65,000 students in Cornell University’s
most popular class — a sleep focused version of introductory
psychology.
*Maas experimented on his students, asking them to wear sleep-
monitoring headbands and showing them magnetic resonance images of
the brains of sleep-deprived college students. “You can see that nothing
is going on in their brains,” Maas said. “Literally nothing.”

14. Foster view on sleep, “if you don’t sleep essentially
you never get there”

15. This study purpose is to Test the impact of
sleep on students’ memory, learning, and potential
academic performance
Some Students “pull all nighters in Hope to improve grades”

16. Second Group: Non-Sleep
Deprived
Results: Improvement over the
Next 4 days
First Group: sleep deprived for
30hrs. With 2 day recovery
Results: NO significant
improvement
Groups Rated Themselves: Despite sleep Deprived performing worse,
sleep-deprived subjects felt they had better concentration, effort, and
performance than did non-sleep-deprived subjects
Visual Discrimination

17. Investigating if improvement correlated
with time or time spent in sleep?

18. Second Group: 12-hour period that
included sleep.
Result: After a night of sleep, subjects’ performance
improved by 18%. Subjects tested at 10 pm initially,
then retested after sleep, also had a significant
improvement in performance
First Group:
12-hour period of wakefulness
Result: Subjects tested at 10 am and then retested at
10 pm without sleep showed no significant change in
performance.
Motor Task
“The Data from this Research suggest that sleep, and not just time, is required for learning and memory consolidation. It may be possible
that there is a window for potential learning that requires sleep, and that this opportunity for learning may not be salvaged even after
sleep is recovered.”

19. Drowsy Driving
*“Sleep-related accidents represent up to 20% of all traffic accidents
in industrial societies”- Pierre published 2006
* 32% “100,000 car accidents in the U.S are reported due to sleep”
–Foster filmed 2013

20. Lack of Adequate sleep Affects your
Mood & Stress
An article called More Slumber Time Means Better Performance in Class states, “
“When you find depression, even when you find anxiety, when you scratch the surface 80 to 90
percent of the time you find a sleep problem as well,” said University of Delaware psychologist Brad
Wolgast.

21. So what
should I do?

22. Get your Body Ready for
Slumber
1. Chamomile Tea?
2. Lower the light in your
bedroom
3. Turn off your phones &
computers

23. Solution: Just turn OFF
the Lights at Night

24. Crave Caffeine (Stimulants)
Stay away after 12p.m

25. Wine helps Sleep
Already Messed up your Circadian Rhythms
Wrong “According to circadian neuroscientist
Russell Foster Alcohol sedates you and Mimics biological
sleep” Harm Memory consolidation!

26. 1. Educated you on Sleep
2. How sleep effects Mental Health
3. The correct way to approach the sleeping issue

27. Think Twice Next time

28.  Add Sleepto your Agenda!
*make it happen treat it as a goal
it’s not any less important than your
things to do in the Day