Jonathan Roth
10/2/07
Pysch. 114
Prof. Traci
1.
The main research question is to see the relationship between sleep deprivation
and the eating habits of humans. They wanted to see if sleep deprivation was a factor in
what type of food you eat. They also wanted to know what type of food was chosen in
accordance with their sleep deprivation.
2.
When Wells and Cruess (2006) say “There is a negative association between
amount of REM sleep and cortisol levels and a positive association between cortisol
levels and calories consumed,” (p. 80) they mean the negative association is when the
amount of REM sleep goes down then the amount of cortisol levels goes down, vice
versa. In the positive association, the amount of cortisol levels goes up, and then the
amount of calories consumed goes down, vice versa.
3.
One of the hypotheses that Wells and Cruess gave was that the sample group
would consume different amounts of calories after the night of partial sleep. They
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