Embarrassed? Blame Your Brain

This text selection is mostly about________?

• why teenagers are so sensitive to social pressure

• the benefits of embarrassment

• why embarrassment hurts

According to the passage, sometimes in middle school ____becomes a top priority.

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• making friends

• spending time with other kids

• making TikToks

Something that is so important to you that you can't do with out it is ___?

• evident

• similar

• essential

This system is where fight or flight reactions to stress and fear take place. (see the diagram)

• the dACC system

• the limbic system

• the digestive system

Our brains react to ____in the same way

• physical pain and social rejection

• joy and frustration

• exercise and sleep

Read this sentence from paragraph 9 of “Embarrassed? Blame Your Brain”

Activity in one system can amplify or cancel out activity in another.

Amplify and cancel out are antonyms.

What is the meaning of the word amplify as used in
this sentence?

• strengthen/ make stronger

• end

• take away

What genre is the selection, "Embarrassed? Blame Your Brain?"

• Argumentative

• Informative

• historical fiction

In “Embarrassed? Blame Your Brain,” the section “Embarrassment Has an Unfair Advantage” is organized to show the —

• the ways teens can overcome negative thoughts

• positive and negative impacts of social pain

• types of positive feelings teen experience

Which activity deactivates your internal alarm?

• taking slow deep breaths

• yelling

• sleeping

Something that is so important that you can't live without it is.......?

• trivial

• inessential

• essential