Embarrassed? Blame Your Brain?

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

• playing volleyball

• spending time with friends

• being involved in music

• keeping things neat and organized

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

• cortex

• factual

• essential

• opinion

This system is where fight or flight reactions to stress or fear take place.

• limbic systel

• muscular system

• skeletol system

• digestive system

Our brains react to ____in the same way

• muscular and anger system

• physical pain and social rejection

• hot food and swimming

• academic and traffic problems

A feeling of ___ is even more intense than a feeling of embarrassment.

• frustration

• joy

• cofusion

• humiliation

Which of these is NOT a response to embarrassment?

• red face

• big smile

• heart pounds

• stomach is upset

What genre is Embarrassed? Blame Your Brain?

• historical fiction

• Informational text

• video

• biography

The article states that social pain also makes us___?

• nicer

• older

• taller

• meaner

To make something stronger or more intense

• purifier

• amplifier

• humiliation

• cortex

To create and develop something.

• retaliate

• amplify

• generate

• contemplate