How Others Affect My Health Choices
9th Grade · Health · 75 min· Standard 2
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Learning Objective
I can examine how family, friends, and media can affect my health choices.
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Stereotypes of adolescents often portray them as badly behaved, irresponsible, and rude, but this doesn't account for context.
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Adolescents often engage in risky behaviors like smoking, drinking alcohol, and dangerous driving when they are with their friends.
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Adolescents are hypersensitive to social exclusion and may change who they are to fit in with their peers.
