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?

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

When a person performs perceptual tasks like viewing and appreciating works of art in a museum, she is likely processing the perceptions more in her __________, whereas when a person performs language or mathematical tasks, she is likely depending more on her __________.

A TV news reporter states, “A new major university study has just found that playing violent video games causes children to be more disruptive in the classroom compared to children who are not allowed to play violent video games.” Being a wise consumer of research conclusions, the single most important thing you should do next is to:

Sleep patterns change across the life-span in that:

According to the activation-synthesis theory proposed by Hobson & McCarley, dreams:

The results of an experiment indicate that going without sleep has a significant negative effect on memory abilities as measured by a memory test.  In this experiment, sleep deprivation is the __________, whereas performance on a memory test is the __________.

A patient tells her analyst about a dream she had. The dream was about a little girl who wanted to buy a candy bar with money that her mother had given her. However, she was afraid to buy the candy because her mother had scolded her for doing so in the past. The analyst replied that dream meant that she had a strong unconscious desire for sexual gratification while fearing what others might think of this desire. According to Sigmund Freud, what the patient reported is the __________ content of the dream, whereas the analyst’s interpretation reveals the __________ content of the dream.

Two names closely associated with the behaviorist perspective are:

Which of the following help in defending humans against disease? A. immunoglobulins (antibodies)B. lysosomesC. peroxisomesD. All of the choices help defend against disease.