Consider the following brain image.   What region of the brain is believed to be most involved in a wide variety of functions including motivation for food, water and sex, memory encoding, and fear responses?  This area is also believed to house the primary reward centers in the brain. 

Which of the following regarding REM sleep is FALSE?

Which of the following regarding sleep deprivation is FALSE?

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

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: 

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:

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.

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?

The part of the neuron that transmits outgoing messages either to another neuron or to a muscle or gland is the:

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.