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Worksheets"This is your brain on Instagram" Reading Quiz
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
According to TED, when are the reward centers in our brains are most active? (Paragraph 9)
When you're going to the bathroom
When we're going out on a date
When we're talking about ourselves
When you're getting ready to comment on a picture
What is the title of the article we read today?
Social Media: The Effects of Likes and Comments
Social Media: This is Your Brain
This is Your Brain On Instagram: Effects of Social Media on the Brain
This is Your Brain on the Internet: Effects of Watching Youtube
Who is the author of the article "This Is Your Brain on Instagram: Effects of Social Media on the Brain"?
Kelly McSweeney
Mrs. Adams
Kellie O'Brien
Kamar McKnight
In paragraph 1, the author includes that Statista reports that the average person spends how many minutes on social media each day?
1000
135
200
453
Paragraph 2 starts a new section in this article. What is that section's header?
Comparing Two Mediums
Purpose of Comparing Yourself
Psychological Meanings: Social Media
Psychology: Comparison Is the Thief of Joy
Paragraph 5 starts another new section. What is the header for that section?
Psychology Making Your Brain Chemistry
Physiology: Brain Chemistry Leaves Us Craving More “Likes”
Physiological Reasons for Chemistry
Psychological Advances in Social Media
Paragraph 7 starts another new section. What is the header for this (last) section?
Side Effects of Sleeping Too Much
Side Effects of Using Your Brain
Side Effects of Social Media on the Brain
Social Effect of Media and School
In paragraph 2, the author mentions the acronym "FOMO" in parentheses. What does it stand for?
Fear of missing out
Filling out my options
First of many outs
Fear of making options
In paragraph 4, why does Psychologist Hunt suggest that the reason for feeling depressed after spending too much time on social media boils down to comparison?
Whenever you visit your old curated posts and see that you didn't get many likes or comments, it makes you feel like you aren't enough.
When viewing inappropriate sites online, you are more likely to be upset from the negative effect they have on you.
When you look at other people's profiles, you are more likely to think that you are better than them.
When looking at someone else’s curated life online, it’s easy to see their perfect pictures and assume their lives are better than yours.
In paragraph 5, the author states that neuroscientists are finding that positive social media interactions (such as a like on your post) trigger the same chemical reaction in your brain caused by which activities?
Prescriptions and love
Gambling and recreational drugs
Alcohol and rollercoasters
School and friends
Paragraph 6 says that according to a Harvard Researcher, when you get a social media notification, your brain sends a chemical messenger called dopamine, which makes you feel good. According to the article, what things are associated with dopamine?
School, work, assignments, tardy slips, quizzes
Parents, siblings, friends, family members
Food, exercise, love, gambling, drugs, and social media.
Arguments, losing, failing, yelling, depression, and social media.
Paragraph 7 says, "A TED video explains that social media makes us bad at multitasking and causes phantom vibration syndrome." What is phantom vibration syndrome?
When you pick up your phone after it goes off.
When you feel like your phone is buzzing even though it’s not.
When you forget to turn your phone on silent.
When you feel like your phone is listening to what you are saying even though you aren't using it.
How are brain scans of social media addicts similar to those of drug-dependent brains? (Paragraph 8)
There is a clear change in the regions of the brain that control emotions, attention and decision making.
There is a clear change that is seen whenever someone picks up their phone to like someone else's picture.
There is a clear similarity that doesn't change if someone if happy, sad, neutral, or studying really hard.
There is a clear emotional and social trigger that makes you see and feel things that may not even exist.
Using context clues and the definitions from the article to help you answer this; What is a psychologist?
a person who studies the human organs and how they work, with a focus on bodily functions and receptors
a scientist who studies the human mind and how it works, with a focus on why we behavior
a person with a degree in psychological operations
a scientist who runs tests on people who need help after using too much social media
Using context clues and the definitions from the article to help you answer this; What is a neuroscientist?
a person who talks to people about their poor behaviors and prescribes medicine to overcome daily challenges
a scientist who studies internal organ function and how we operate when presented with force
a person who studies the way that society changes based on nuances of social media
a scientist who studies brain structure and how it controls our bodies, emotions, and thoughts
