Decision Making
Student Learning Objectives:
1. Identify 2 ways people make decisions.
2. List & demonstrate steps in making an active decision.
3. Recognize that although feelings affect decisions, people can decide not to act on a feeling.
1. Identify 2 ways people make decisions.
2. List & demonstrate steps in making an active decision.
3. Recognize that although feelings affect decisions, people can decide not to act on a feeling.
Ways People Make Decisions
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1. Active Decisions:
2. Passive Decisions:
- Involve conscious thought
- Involve a choice between at least two alternatives, where one can know or guess some of the consequences of each alternative.
2. Passive Decisions:
- Where a person has a choice, but allows someone else to make the decision.
Active or Passive Decisions
Each of these could be Active or Passive. If you choose, active...if you allow someone else to choose, passive
- What do you want to eat for a snack: an apple or a chocolate bar?
- Do you want: a cat or a dog?
- Which game system do you want: a Playstation Four or XBox One?
Each of these could be Active or Passive. If you choose, active...if you allow someone else to choose, passive
Do your feelings affect your decisions?
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- Are you mad?
- Scared?
- Hurt?
- Happy?
- Sad?
- Jealous?
- Want to fit in?
Peer Pressure
What is Peer Pressure?
What types of activities do you associate peer pressure with? (There are no wrong answers.)
- the pressure that you feel to behave in a certain way because your friends or people in your group expect it. (University of Cambridge, 2014)
What types of activities do you associate peer pressure with? (There are no wrong answers.)