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Experiment Measuring Reaction Times In Relation To Hours of Sleep

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Experiment Measuring Reaction Times In Relation To Hours of Sleep ABSTRACT The following experiment was carried out to further test individual's reaction and neural activity. The main hypothesis is that there would be a significant difference in performance of both task, the complex task (4 piles) and the simple task (2 piles) in relation to the number of hours of sleep, the second hypothesis is that the participants will be significantly quicker in the simple task (2 piles) than in the complex task (4 piles). Our sample consisted of 21 third year psychology students in Dublin Business school of Arts. The 21 students had to complete two different tasks, a simple task and a complex task. The materials used in this experiment included: 4 deck of cards, a stopwatch, a desk and chair, instruction sheets, recording sheet and pen, 21 pieces of paper, a timer, an experimenter and a bio-feed back...

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