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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. 

Research on hypnosis indicates that:

Which of the following regarding REM sleep is FALSE?

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.

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

According to Freud, dreams:

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

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.

Which of the following statements about sleepwalking is FALSE?

Research conducted by psychologist Linda Bartoschuk found significantly lower rates of obesity, reduction in cardiovascular disease, and decreased chances of substance addiction in: