During final exams week, Maria is only getting 2 or 3 hours of sleep each night due to staying up late preparing for exams.  What change in Maria’s sleep cycle might we predict for a few nights when she gets back to her normal amount of nightly sleep?

In one stage of sleep, the sleeper is farther away from waking consciousness than in any other stage.  This deepest stage of sleep defined by very low EEG activity and indicated by slow delta waves is __________ sleep.

The structure in the forebrain that relays sensory information to the appropriate sensory areas in the brain and is also thought to integrate sensory information is the:

When asked to describe the image below, most people identify it as a circle.  The perceptual principle that accounts for our visual perceptual organization of this image is the principle of: 

Abnormally high activity at dopamine receptor sites has been related to:

Which of the following regarding sleep deprivation is FALSE?

Which of the following regarding REM sleep is FALSE?

During a full night’s sleep for a young adult, REM sleep makes up about __________ of all sleep.

Consider the following brain image.   What region of the brain is believed to be most involved in critical thinking, decision making, and other higher-order thought processes?

Mary falls asleep after a long day at work and an evening of college classes. About an hour and a half after she falls asleep, her brain activity increases to resemble that of an awake person, and she enters a period of vivid dreams. She is most likely entering __________ sleep.