“ teens need adequate sleep and REM sleep to rebuild long term memory for learning and , focus attention for driving and maintaining health and fighting obesity.”
The answer would be - slang words and phrases. American and British English often differ greatly in such words as: highway (AmE) = motorway (BrE), or cookie (AmE) = biscuit (BrE), or diaper (AmE) = nappy (BrE), etc.
This sentence means a character had decided upon a certain action for a problem in their head. however other characters (the peers in this example) bestowed an act of kindness or "did something nice" for this other characters in hopes that he/she would change their mind. A good example would be if you upset your parent by acting up and they said no to a sleepover. you would do chores or act kindly towards them in order to try to get them to change their mind and say yes.