Quote Originally Posted by loka View Post
sorry for DP, but I actually remembered my old Psych professor in my Learning and Behavior class last year that sleep will always aid in memory. Have you ever sleep deprived yourself for 2 days? I have. It's not pretty and normally, you shouldn't do it especially if your wanting to remember things.

Someone in that class did a small study that if you study for a test all night with no sleep so you can remember the information, you only remember the last thing you read and failed. If you study all evening with sufficient sleep (6-8 hours) they did much better on the test.
or... the people with sleep deprivation.. simply don't have enough energy left to focus on the test... was all the variable controlled? how did you record the data? Quantitative observeration? Qualitative observation? ... too many confounding variables usually screw over your psychological experiments.. I would know.. I can't even do the stroop effect experiment without realizing there are atleast one or two variables that simple cannot be controlled..

By the way people that study all night long.. and plans to do major cramming only means that they are born procrastinators.. whereas the people that studied earlier knows how to plan ahead and are most likely the better students.. (remember I am only generalizing) Study materials could also be different per student as well Loka..



Also Anex.. have you seen MRI scans or any brain scans in particular? I noticed that we use a lot more then 10%... but certain brain damages could really mess up your ability to use the full potential of your brain...

Also Anex read up on split personalities, it has some very interesting case studies.. I don't remember the specific case study... but the gist of the case study was this... (for the sake of easier explanation we'll call one of the personality Eva Black and the other personality Eva White)

oh wait.. eva..

eve?

oh shit.. my memory somehow triggered and I magically found the case study O.O

http://www.holah.karoo.net/thigpenstudy.htm

and I'm not really back yet.. happen to stumble on to your post since today is the start of a four day weekend.. and replied to your post because I find it very interesting and not the same old crap like in the other sections