Impact of Risk Taking 1
True or False: Risk taking will always have harms to it.
False
Name an example of harmful teen risk taking?
drug/substance use
risky driving
having bad friends/ peer pressure
taking risks with grades/ skipping school
Scenario: If you interrupted the teacher or other students during classtime, how does it effect others?
(Any reasonable answer may be accepted)
The other students won't learn.
They may feel disrespected
Teacher will have to spend time out of the class to calm you down or work with you or call parents.
The prefrontal cortex in the brain is responsible for impulse control and does not fully mature until about age 25. How does this affect teen risk-taking?
(Any answer close to this is correct)
Teenagers are more likely to make impulsive, emotional decisions without thinking through the consequences.
OR
Sometimes, they don’t have enough life experience to be aware of all of the possible dangers.
Other:
What item gets wet while drying?
A towel
Define "smart/healthy risk taking"
(Any close answer will be accepted)
A risk that would allow you to develop new skills, or would have a positive outcome that has minimal negative influences
What are ways that harmful risk-taking impact your self-image? (Any close answers will be acceptable)
Lowers self-esteem
Lowers your confidence
You will engage in more harmful/dangerous activities
View yourself as incapable
Explain how bullying a person affects others? (Any reasonable answers will be accepted).
The person being bullied will feel bad about themselves.
Onlookers/bystanders may feel afraid that this will happen to them too.
Emotional distress
Academic impact
Physical health issues
Social isolation
Long-term effects
Many teens often have 'unhealthy optimism'. How does this impact teen risk-taking?
1) Teens tend to think that negative outcomes will only happen to other people.
2) It doesn’t feel real to them, and so the possible negative consequences don’t stop them.
Other:
What can you catch but not throw?
a cold/sickness
List 1 positive outcome from smart/healthy risk taking:
Opens new opportunities
Make new friends
Build new skills
Builds confidence
List consequences of harmful risk taking:
Affects your health badly/may kill you
Harms relationships
Get into dangerous situations
Harms your future
Get arrested
Loss of friends, family
Loss of respect
How would harmful decision making affect your friends?
(Any acceptable answers will be accepted)
Describe 2 ways that peer pressure affect risk-taking in teens? (Any reasonable answers will be accepted)
What can run but cannot walk?
a river
List a way that smart risk taking impacts you at school?
learn new skills
gain more knowledge
take difficult classes
improve your grades
helps you get into university or college
join more extracurricular activities
make more friends
boosts confidence
List ways harmful risk taking impacts your school performance?
Lowers your GPA/grades
Suspended/expelled
Ruins chances of getting into university or college
Harms relationships with classmates/ teachers
Loss of trust
Other:
How would not doing your homework affect others? (Any acceptable answers will be accepted)
Explain how media may impact teen risk-taking?
(Any answer close to this is correct)
Social media, music, movies and television project a wide range of risky behaviors in ways that make the person glamorous or admirable, while still avoiding any negative consequences.
Other:
What bank has no money in it?
A river bank
List skills needed to help you make smart/healthy risks
Planning
Thinking of the pros and cons
Thinking before you act
Being okay to make mistakes
Support
Communication
Name things that may influence people to take harmful risks?
To fit in
Peer pressure
Boredom
Wanting to be independent/ rebel
To seem cool
No focus or direction
How could your harmful decision making affect your family? (Any acceptable answers will be accepted)
Explain ways someone's low self-esteem may impact teen risk taking:
(Any reasonable answer will be accepted)
A teen with low self-esteem may not by very assertive or have the strength/will to say 'no' to others.
They may also want to be accepted and liked and will not say no.
Other: A person with low self-esteem may
What kind of room has no windows or doors?
a mushroom