Section 3 Lesson 4 MC

What social media platform was used for the experiment?

• Facebook-like

• Snapchat-like

• Instagram-like

• Twitter-like

(Group research) what purpose does the hippocampus have in the brain?

• short-term memory

• visual comprehension

• long-term memory

• reading fluency

When the teens saw their own submitted photos with lots of “likes”, what two reactions did they notice happened in the brain?

• Reward circuitry engagement

• The prefrontal cortex thickened

• Activation in visual attention regions

• The hippocampus was activating strongly 

(Group Research) What part of the brain controls your balance?

• hippocampus

• nucleas accumbus

• prefrontal cortex

• cerebellum

What indicator did they notice about the teens and the photos they chose to like?

• It was their own photos

• The photos had a lot of likes already

• They avoided negative photos 

• They knew the person in the photo 

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Read the claim below. Would this be classified as a negative or positive claim?

The health care system underperforms in the following areas: doctor to patient ratio, time in waiting rooms, and financial obligations to patients.

• positive

• negative

• neither

• not a claim

Read the following sentence from the text. “Teens react differently to information when they believe it has been endorsed by many or few of their peers, even if these peers are strangers.”

In what context is the word “endorsed” being used?

• Removed

• Approve

• Not like

• Think carefully about

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