risky business Flashcards
What are risks?
A behaviour or action with an unknown outcome
- uncertainty about the consequences
Positive risks?
Positive risks can lead to positive outcomes for groups and individuals. Most people take these risks because they are in a controlled environment.
Why people take risks?
-Lack of experience
-Lack of prior knowledge about unsafe practices
-Impressing peers
-Attention seeking
-Depression
-Peer pressure
-Rebelling against authority
-To maintain a friendship or relationship
-Poor role modelling (especially by parents)
-Responding to challenges or a dare
Peoples perception of risks fluctuate according to…
- Previous knowledge or experience
- Level of skill in relation to the activity
- Self-confidence
- Self-esteem
- Influence of peers and peer group
- Influence of drugs at the time a decision is made
- Amount of supervision available by adults or instructors during the activity.
Factors influencing risk-taking behaviours
- personal values
- peer influences
- perceived beliefs
Consequences of risks can potentially change your..
- Health and physical safety
- Well-being
- Wealth
- Property or the environment
Categories of drugs?
- Hallucinogens
- Stimulants
- Depressants
What are Stimulants?
These speed up the functions of the central nervous system
What are Hallucinogens?
These affect the way we see, hear, feel and smell
What are Depressants?
These slow down the functions of the central nervous system.
Factors which contribute to drug use, alcohol consumption and smoking/vaping.
- Mental health
- peer pressure
- family
- social interactions
- stress/depression/anxiety
- impulses
- media
- advertising/marketing
Risks associated with alcohol consumption
- addictive
- neuro transmitters relay information slower
- causes stretching of the heart
- liver malfunctions
- cause cancers
- change the brains structures
- increase dopamine in the brain
- creates drowsiness
- mood swings
- weaken immune system
ANALYZING INFLUENCES
- INTERNAL INFLUENCES
- MARKETING ADVERTISING
- CULTURE AND MEDIA
- PEER PRESSURE
