Sleep Duration
Young adults are generally recommended to get this many hours of sleep per night.
What is seven to nine hours?
These three environmental conditions can disrupt sleep in a college dormitory.
What are light, noise, and temperature?
This term describes practices that promote consistent, high-quality sleep.
What is sleep hygiene?
This is one cognitive skill that poor sleep can impair in college students.
What is concentration?
These are the three main pillars of sleep quality examined in this class.
What are sleep duration, environmental conditions, and behavioral habits?
These two cognitive abilities can suffer when college students do not get enough sleep.
What are attention and memory?
This hormone, influenced by light exposure, helps regulate the body's sleep-wake cycle.
What is melatonin?
This habit involves following a regular sequence of activities before going to bed.
What is a consistent bedtime routine?
This academic measure has been associated with sleep quality and consistency among college students.
What is grade point average (GPA)?
True or false: Getting enough hours of sleep guarantees good sleep quality, even when environmental disturbances occur.
What is false?
This sleep pattern is associated with better course grades than frequently changing bedtimes and wake-up times.
What is a consistent sleep schedule?
This type of morning exposure can improve nighttime sleep and next-morning alertness.
What is bright light exposure?
This relaxation technique involves deliberately controlling and slowing one's breathing before sleep.
What is controlled deep breathing?
This sleep-related process helps stabilize and retain information learned during the day.
What is memory consolidation?
When a roommate stays up late playing video games and disturbs another student's sleep, these two pillars directly interact.
What are behavioral habits and environmental conditions?
Researchers cannot establish this from a correlational study alone, even if sleep duration and academic performance are related.
What is causation?
This type of dormitory disagreement can make it difficult for roommates to maintain a comfortable sleeping environment.
What is a disagreement over room temperature?
Scrolling on a phone late at night to distract oneself from a noisy dorm can become this type of problem.
What is a sleep-disrupting coping behavior?
Staying awake all night to study can undermine these three abilities needed for academic success.
What are attention, memory, and learning?
When a roommate's late-night noise reduces another student's sleep and the student struggles to concentrate the next day, this chain of events demonstrates how the three pillars interact.
What is the relationship between behavior, the sleep environment, sleep duration, and academic performance?
SThis sleep-related factor may still hurt academic performance when a student gets eight hours of sleep but goes to bed at a different time every night.
What is sleep consistency?
These two levels of intervention may be needed when a student's healthy sleep habits are undermined by a roommate's nighttime noise and light.
What are individual-level and university-level interventions?
This gap occurs when students understand the importance of healthy sleep but struggle to consistently practice it.
What is the gap between knowledge and behavior?
This is the main reason sleep duration alone cannot fully explain a student's academic performance.
What is the interaction of sleep duration, environmental conditions, and behavioral habits?
This two-sided approach to improving college students' sleep combines changes to personal routines with improvements to dormitory conditions.
What is individual responsibility combined with institutional responsibility?