Myth #21 People can Learn information like new languages while asleep – Flashcards
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Sleep assisted learning
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learning new material while asleep
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Hypnopaedia
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aka sleep assisted learning
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Survey results about % that believe in sleep assisted learning (SAL)
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68% of undergraduates
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Clockwork Orange
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Anthony Burgess's 1962 Brilliant but terrifying novel later made into a film where gov official attempt unsuccessfully to use sleep assisted learning techniques to transform the main character from a psychopath to a respectable member of society
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SAL stems from
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finding that people sometimes incorporate external stimuli into their dreams (from 10-50% of participants in studies did this)but they don't wake up remembering the stimuli
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Audiotaped stimuli: foreign language vs. control irrelevant stimuli test results
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investigators expose sailors to morse code while asleep- mastered it 3 weeks faster than those that were not exposed to it
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Critical explanations that were not ruled out for SAL
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tape recording may have awakened the subjects, brain waves were not monitored, probably work because the participants wake up or learn it while they are trying to fall asleep
