Social Emotional Learning and the Brain

Where does brain activity occur when people care about each other and want to be friends?

• Temporal Lobe

• Occipital Lobe

• Frontal Lobe

• Parietal Lobe

True or False: Dopamine, Noradrenaline and oxytocin are all released when we start new relationships.

• False

• True

What in our brain allows us to understand others?

• Supramarginal gyrus

• Anterior Insula and putamen

• Mirror neurons

• medial prefrontal cortex

True of False: These areas of the brain are important for self-awareness: Anterior cingulate, posterior cingulate, medial prefrontal cortex, the insula, and the orbital prefrontal cortex.

• True

• False

Which lobe helps regulate our emotions?

• Temporal

• Frontal

• Occipital

• Limbic

Which part of the brain helps us interpret social signals to understand the intentions and emotional/mental state of others? 

• Cerebellum

• Posterior superior temporal sulcus

• Medial prefrontal cortex

• Inferior parietal lobe

True or False: These hormones dopamine, noradrenaline, oxytocin, endorphins and serotonin are released when students start to view their peers as teammates or friends.

• True

• False

What part if the brain heavily influences our decision making?

• Ventrolateral

• The Ventromedial

• Orbitofrontal

• Prefrontal Cortex

Which part of the prefrontal cortex is involved with goal-appropriate responses that deal with decision-making?

• orbitofrontal

• ventromedial

• ventrolateral

• Nucleus accumbens

True or False: It is important to understand the brain's purpose in Social Emotional Learning?

• False

• True