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1. Give a description of either a risk-taking behavior you engaged in as an adolescent or an example from a media source (such as a movie or newspaper article).  A risk-behavior that I engage as an adolescent was drinking, me and my friends would drink, we started our first year of high school, when we went to my friend’s house since her parents were working, we didn’t drink that much back then because we were scared that our parents would smell it and punish us, one of our friends got the alcohol from other friends. 2. How would Gardner and his Rational Choice Theory explain why you (or your source) engaged in the risk-taking behavior? Make sure not to generalize, but to relate it specifically to your example.  Gardner and his Rational Choice Theory proposes that “adolescents engage in more risk-taking behavior than adults because in adolescence the advantages of engaging in risk taking outweigh the disadvantages.” According to Gardner, I engaged in this behavior because as adolescents, we engage in more risk-taking behaviors than adults because we don’t really see the disadvantages to it, like an adult who has more responsibilities would. This relates to my example because we did it as teens, we were freshmen in high school and the only responsibility that we had was school, we also saw this behavior in some of our family members and seen that nothing bad happened to them (as far as we know), we thought it was safe and wanted to see why people like to drink so much, we wanted to see the “hype” behind alcohol. 3. How would Apter explain your example of risk-taking? Make sure to include terms such as safety, danger, and trauma zones, as well as protective and fallacious frames when answering this question.  Apter’ theory proposes that “young and old seek out and enjoy situations on the dangerous edge of things.” Apter would explain my example to feel arousal and adrenaline because the more I wasn’t caught by my parents, the more I engaged in this behavior, the feeling of independence and risk I felt whenever I got away was exciting at that moment This behavior can be applied to safety, danger and trauma zones. Safety because we, at first, were not sure if we wanted to do it anymore, when we first saw the bottle, we got too scared to do it, this could mean that we knew we shouldn’t be doing that in the first place. The danger zone would be when

we started drinking. And trauma zone was that we had no experience with alcohol, and we didn’t know if one of us would have a reaction to it and what we would do if something went wrong. I think I had two protective frames, people in my family and seeing them drinking when I was a child and nothing bad would happen to them (as far as I could see) and knowing that I had my friends doing this with me and I felt little bit more relax. For fallacious frame, in my example is that while I was with my friends, there was not much we could do if something happened to me or any of them. 4. How might Lyng use the concept of “edgework” to explain risk- taking behavior? Again, make sure not to generalize, but relate it specifically to your example.  Lyng defines the concept of “edgework” as “the process of negotiating the boundary between chaos and order.” He explains “the experience produces a sense of self-realization, self-actualization or self-determination”, this relates to my personal experience because while I was scared of doing it and getting caught, which he describes as fear being often felt before engaging in edgework, I felt some type of freedom when I was drinking, I felt control over my situation and this new experience that I was going through with my friends. 5. Finally, outline two interventions to reduce reckless behavior and hypothetically apply them to your example. In other words, how could have the interventions been applied to your scenario? What do you think would have been the likelihood of success?  One intervention that I can think of is adults trying to set an example to their young children, like I mentioned, me and my friends grew up seeing our families drinking so we had that curiosity from a young age to try and see why adults like it so much. Another intervention is schools teaching them how to prevent alcohol consumption and the consequences of starting drinking at such a young age. I think the likelihood of success depends on the person, for me personally, it would have work if people at school or in my family talked about the consequences of drinking and why engaging in this behavior is wrong at such an age.

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