Peer Pressure

Your Peers are...

• people about your own age
• your parents
• your teachers
• your baby cousin

When people your age try to influence you to believe or act like them it is called?

•  communictaion
• peer pressure
• friendship
• negotiation

Peer Pressure can be...

• Positive
• Negative
• Neither
•  Postive or Negative

Why do some kids give into peer pressure?

• Because they want to be liked, to fit in.
• Because they worry that other kids might make fun of them if they don't go along with the group
• Because they are curious to try something new that others are doing.
• All of the above

Peer Pressure can influence which of the following:

• clothing styles
• hairstyles
• taste in music
• all of the above

All of the following are examples of body language that can make someone feel excluded EXCEPT

• hugs
• eye-rolling
• pointing and giggling
• turning away

Kids can pressure each other without even speaking

• True
• False

Which is a method used to pressure another person?

• Smile
• Say they are not cool if they don't do it or name call
• be nice to them
• none of these

You are the captain for the kickball team. Your friend tells you not to pick Stan. Stan is always picked last and is not yet good at kickball.  You feel bad but you know your friend will make fun of you if you pick Stan. This is an example of .....

• Positvie Peer Pressure
• Negative Peer Pressure

A friend encourages you to try out for the basketball team. This is which type of pressure?

• Positive Pressure
• Negative Pressure