Talk:Motivation and emotion/Book/2010/Sleep and emotion

Hey there!

Nice to see you are making progress on your TB chapter! I see you have quoted my boy Ekman in your theory. Might I suggest you make his name into a link to my TB page?
Cheers!--MichelleK 00:43, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

Love your work! MichelleK 22:12, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Chapter feedback

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Overall Overall, this is a very solid, well researched and well written chapter. Theory Overall, this chapter demonstrates a very good understanding of relevant theory. Excellent overview of emotion. The overview of sleep was somewhat technical and neurological (more explanation or links to explainations of the technical terms could have been helpful). No particularly connnection between REM/NREM sleep and emotion is offered. The Relationship between Sleep and Emotion - An Overview - Excellent - brings the topics together into clear focus. Research Overall, this chapter does an excellent job of focusing on relevant research findings. Where research findings are discussed it would be helpful to also mention the size of the effects (e.g, amygdala being 3 times more active). Citation for claims of collective sleep deprivation would be helpful e.g., "suboptimal sleep levels are now considered the norm" Written expression Overall, the chapter was well written and presented. There was some minor, but regular grammar issues. Effective use was made of highlight boxes. Images were useful adjuncts to the text. Some inter-wiki links were added. The introduction could have benefited from clearly establishing some focus questions of interest. The chapter summary was very well written - a rich, but succint summary of the key content. Some of the feature boxes seemed to just re-quote the text. Avoid one sentence paragraphs. Spelling, grammar and proofreading welbeing -> well-being Check use of ownership apostrophes e.g., individuals vs. individual's; also check use of its vs it's; also note Study's -> Studies Did you mean "volitation" or perhaps "volition"? (regardless, the term could have done with explanation) APA style APA was generally very good, particularly for citations. APA was not used to caption and refer to figures/tables.

Multimedia presentation feedback

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Overall 7 Overview Overall, this is a solid CR-level presentation. It effectively summarises the chapter, but could have benefitted from slowing down and more expressively concentrating on fewer key points. The slides and animations were clear. What is REM/NREM? (Explain) Audio Take a bit more pause between slides Use a bit more expressiveness (the presentation improved in this respect towards the end). There was sometimes a knocking noise against the microphone Key findings were useful. Content 7 Conclusion Audio 7 Video Meta-data 6 Licensing

-- Jtneill - Talk - c 13:34, 13 December 2010 (UTC)