Psychology Entry 1

In my social science culminating performance task I investigated the question of do student’s hours of sleep affect their overall performance in their daily lives. In the end, the results showed that 75 percent of the class got less than 8 hours of sleep, the recommended average for young adults. Looking at this from a psychological perspective, what are some of the reasons for this lack of sleep in the general student classroom. One of these reasons includes the entertainment humans have at our disposal, at any given time we have access to the biggest source of entertainment, the internet. Keeping this in mind, its hard for some students to put down their phone and start the process of going to sleep. The endless supply of entertainment that is the internet triggers the release of dopamine, at this point it is easy to choose to stay up and be on our phones, however teenagers pay the price the next day.