Embarrassed? Blame Your Brain

Embarrassment is when you feel silly or ashamed for something you or somebody else does.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Embarrassed? Blame Your Brain is an example of what type of text?

• Short Story

• Poetry

• Realistic Fiction

• Informational

According to the text, teenagers naturally develop a strong and sometimes overwhelming fear of embarrassment because-

• they do not want to grow up

• changes in brain activity transform how they see the world

• they are being selfish

• fitting in is no longer important

Scientists have actual evidence that teens start to react more strongly to social problems.

• TRUE

• FALSE

In Cyberball experiments comparing children to teens, teens activated brain systems related to pain and sadness____________ ____________ than young kids.

• more strongly

• less strongly

"It's All in Your Head" and "Words Do Hurt Like Sticks and Stones" are both examples of ___________ found in the text.

• Critical Vocabulary Words

• Graphs

• Subheadings

• Sidebars

Something so important that you can't live without is called-

• essential

• amplify

• generate

• humiliation

To make something stronger and more intense-

• essential

• amplify

• generate

• humiliation

A feeling even more intense than a feeling of embarrassment-

• generate

• essential

• amplify

• humiliation

To create and develop something-

• humiliation

• generate

• amplify

• essential