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Decision Making
Scenario
It’s Friday night and your friends are getting
together for pizza and a movie. When you get
there, the movie is playing in the background,
your friends tell you to help yourself to pizza,
and on the counter, is a bowl for red fruit
punch. You reach for the ladle and realize it
smells o. You ask your friend what it is and
they say, “punch” and start laughing, telling
you to have some. You think the punch has
alcohol in it and really don’t want any. What
do you do next?
ALCOHOL AND YOUR DEVELOPING
CEREBRAL CORTEX
Step 1
Define the problem.
Step 2
Create a pro’s and con’s list.
Good things that will happen if I drink the punch
I won’t make my friend upset
Bad things that could happen if I drink the punch.
If there’s alcohol in it, I could get sick
Cerebral Cortex
EX:
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Decision Making
ALCOHOL AND YOUR DEVELOPING
CEREBRAL CORTEX
Step 3
Eectively communicate your decision
Use the skills you learned in your last unit!
Step 4
Share the conversation you would
have by writing it out below in full sentences.
Think about what would happen if your friend
continued to pressure you. Is there someone
who you could trust to talk with?
Cerebral Cortex