Forced Choice Activity Peer Pressure

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Forced Choice ActivityPeer Pressure

• Mr. Mader

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Forced Choice Activity

• Gather in the center of the room.
• I will give you some forced choice decisions to
  make.
• Indicate your choice by moving to the right or
  left side of the room.

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Forced Choice

• Would you rather visit Italy or Paris?
• Left Italy Right Paris
• If you had the choice between a job that pays
  well in a big city that has bad air pollution, or
  a lesser paying job in the beautiful countryside
  where the nearest town was 35 miles away would
  you take the city job or the country job?
• Left City Right Country

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Forced Choice

• Would you rather be, president of the Ford Motor
  Company or a United States Senator?
• Left Ford Right Senator
• Would you rather spend your Saturday afternoon
  with a group of friends or you best friend?
• Left Best Friend Right Group of Friends

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Forced Choice

• Your Grandmother is coming to visit and she asks
  you to choose between going to the ballet or the
  symphony with her.
• Left Ballet Right Symphony

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Forced Choice

• Which can you tolerate better, a classroom that
  is 10 degrees too cold or 10 degrees too hot?
• Left Hot Right Cold
• Would you rather go to a basketball game or a
  hockey game?
• Left Hockey Right Basketball

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Forced Choice

• Would you rather live in a historic older house
  or a modern contemporary house?
• Left Older Right Modern 
• Would you rather go to a semi-formal dance or a
  beach party dance?
• Left Beach Party Right Semi Formal

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Forced Choice

• Would you rather receive flowers or candy on
  Valentines day?
• Left Flowers Right Candy
• Would you rather have money in the bank or money
  in your pocket?
• Left pocket Right Bank

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Forced Choice

• Would you rather be leader or a follower?
• Left Leader Right Follower

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Activity Closure

• Honestly raise your hand if one of your decisions
  was influenced by another person.
• How does it feel to be alone on one side of the
  room.
• What role could peer pressure play in decision
  making

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Peer Pressure

• The influence that people your age have on you to
  think and act like them.
• Negative or Positive

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Ways to handle negative influences

• Avoid the situation-
• If you know in advance a situation could be
  unhealthy or dangerous, just try and avoid the
  situation.
• Rely on your values-
• Think of the word H.E.L.P. Healthful, Ethical,
  Legal and acceptable to your Parents.

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Ways to handle negative influences

• Focus on the issue-
• Dont exchange insults focus on why you are
  saying NO.
• Walk away-
• If a peer becomes angry or abusive, walk away and
  avoid future contact.