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Practice dictation & shadowing on the Cambridge IELTS 16 Academic Listening Part 3 Test 2.
Cambridge IELTS 16 Academic Listening Test 2 Part 3
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Speaker 1 (1)
So, Luke, for our next psychology assignment, we have to do something on sleep and dreams.
Speaker 2 (2)
Right. I've just read an article suggesting why we tend to forget most of our dreams soon after we wake up.
Speaker 2 (3)
I mean, most of my dreams aren't that interesting anyway.
Speaker 2 (4)
But what it said was that if we remembered everything, we might get mixed up about what actually happened and what we dreamed.
Speaker 2 (5)
So it's a sort of protection. I hadn't heard that idea before.
Speaker 2 (6)
I'd always assumed that it was just that we didn't have room in our memories for all that stuff.
Speaker 1 (7)
Me too. What do you think about the idea that our dreams may predict the future?
Speaker 2 (8)
It's a belief that you get all over the world.
Speaker 1 (9)
Yeah. Lots of people have a story of it happening to them.
Speaker 1 (10)
But the explanation I’ve read is that for each dream that comes true, we have thousands that don’t, but we don't notice those. We don't even remember them.
Speaker 1 (11)
We just remember the ones where something in the real world, like a view or an action, happens to trigger a dream memory.
Speaker 2 (12)
Right. So it's just a coincidence, really.
Speaker 2 (13)
Something else I read about is what they call segmented sleeping.
Speaker 2 (14)
That’s a theory that hundreds of years ago, people used to get up in the middle of the night and have a chat or something to eat, then go back to bed. So I tried it myself.
Speaker 1 (15)
Why?
Speaker 2 (16)
Well, it's meant to make you more creative.
Speaker 2 (17)
I don't know why, but I gave it up after a week.
Speaker 2 (18)
It just didn't fit in with my lifestyle.
Speaker 1 (19)
But most pre-school children have a short sleep in the day, don't they?
Speaker 1 (20)
There was an experiment some students did here last term to see at what age kids should stop having naps, but they didn't really find an answer.
Speaker 1 (21)
They spent a lot of time working out the most appropriate methodology, but the results didn't seem to show any obvious patterns.
Speaker 2 (22)
Right. Anyway, let's think about our assignment.
Speaker 2 (23)
Last time, I had problems with the final stage, where we had to describe and justify how successful we thought we'd been.
Speaker 2 (24)
I struggled a bit with the action plan too.
Speaker 1 (25)
I was okay with the planning, but I got marked down for the self-assessment as well.
Speaker 1 (26)
And I had big problems with the statistical stuff, that's where I really lost marks.
Speaker 2 (27)
Right.
Speaker 1 (28)
So shall we plan what we have to do for this assignment?
Speaker 2 (29)
Okay.
Speaker 1 (30)
First, we have to decide on our research question.
Speaker 1 (31)
So how about is there a relationship between hours of sleep and number of dreams?
Speaker 2 (32)
Okay. Then we need to think about who we'll do the study on, about 12 people?
Speaker 1 (33)
Right. And shall we use other psychology students?
Speaker 2 (34)
Let's use people from a different department. What about history?
Speaker 1 (35)
Yes. They might have interesting dreams. Or literature students?
Speaker 2 (36)
I don't really know any.
Speaker 1 (37)
Okay. Forget that idea. Then we have to think about our methodology.
Speaker 1 (38)
So we could use observation, but that doesn't seem appropriate.
Speaker 2 (39)
No. It needs to be self-reporting, I think. And we could ask them to answer questions online.
Speaker 1 (40)
But in this case, paper might be better as they'll be doing it straight after they wake up.
Speaker 1 (41)
In fact, while they're still half asleep.
Speaker 2 (42)
Right. And we'll have to check the ethical guidelines for this sort of research.
Speaker 1 (43)
Because our experiment involves humans, so there are special regulations.
Speaker 2 (44)
Yes. I had a look at those for another assignment I did.
Speaker 2 (45)
There's a whole section on risk assessment, and another section on making sure they aren't put under any unnecessary stress.
Speaker 1 (46)
Let's hope they don't have any bad dreams.
Speaker 2 (47)
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (48)
Then when we've collected all our data, we have to analyse it and calculate the correlation between our two variables.
Speaker 1 (49)
That's time sleeping and number of dreams, and then present our results visually in a graph.
Speaker 2 (50)
Right. And the final thing is to think about our research and evaluate it. So that seems quite straightforward.
Speaker 1 (51)
Yeah. So..