Do you respond to your students in such a fashion when they ask a
question Ed?
Joan
[email protected]
Pollak, Edward wrote:
Carla Grayson asked, "I'm looking for some information about
sleepwalking. A question from one of my students: If sleeping is
defined as being nonreactive to the environment, how are sleepwalkers
able to engage in complex tasks (e.g., driving)?"
Where did you ever get the idea that sleeping involves "being
nonreactive to the environment"? Mothers routinely react to the cries
of their babies while being unreactive to other stimuli of similar
intensity. They are clearly monitoring their environments while
sleeping. Similarly, people routinely incorporate environmental
stimuli into their dreams. They are clearly reacting to environmental
stimuli.
You might be able to say that sleep is accompanied by reduced
sensitivity to environmental stimuli, or highly selective
responsiveness. But to say it involves "nonreactivity" is just plain
wrong.
Ed
/Edward I. Pollak, Ph.D./
/Department of Psychology/
/West Chester// University of Pennsylvania/
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