...Peer Pressure In this background paper, we will be discussing advertising and how it uses peer pressure to influence our buying power in consumer science. Our experiment will address these key issues and how they work together. Our presentation is focused on the tactics used in successful advertising of a product using commercials to influence consumers. A consumer is a person who purchases goods or services for personal, family, and business use. Consumers have a choice to pick and choose what products they would like to use or buy. Consumers play a vital role in our economy. The more people spend, the greater success of the company, the more jobs created and the more tax revenue for our government. (Consumer Dictionary.com). This consumer can be persuaded by advertisements of products. Advertising is about selling a product and the how this is done is by using by bright colors, sentimental values, sex appeal, brand name, jingle tunes, slogans, low involvement, high involvement, celebrity endorsements and humor, in commercials. Humor is a common method used by advertisers to create an interest in their product. This method seems to be wonderful for getting consumers attention, it works really well. People like funny situations they tend to relax and pay attention when something can invoke their sense of humor. This puts them in a good mood, creates a more comfortable atmosphere and a more positive image for the company or product. This makes the product easier to remember...
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...Consequences To Conformity, Compliance and Obedience Pertaining to Social Pressure Social Influence and Groups "Social influence is the process by which the actions of an individual or group affect the behavior of others" (Feldman, 2013). Many people know from their own experiences the undeniable pain, as well as changes in behavior, that is experienced by submitting to these type pressures, that otherwise, never would have resulted. Social pressures cause people to conform, comply, and obey. Furthermore, these actions and behaviors can have severe negative affects to our personal relationships, which will be address in the following paragraphs. Conformity: Following What Others Do Conformity can be defined as a change in behavior and attitudes that happens because of a need to follow other people (Feldman, 2013). Frequently, people conform to peers and social pressure because of their psychological need to be accepted. Everyone wants to feel loved and accepted. However, when this acceptance comes at the dangerous cost of conforming to social groups, changes occur that are sometimes not thought out and/or unexpected (Encyclopedia for Marriage and Family, 2003). For example, many times people lose their individuality and will not grow as a person because they do not feel they can voice their own thoughts and opinions. This is for fear that in so doing, they will go against their peer groups and become unaccepted. This type conformity usually begins during adolescents...
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...The departmental meeting that I attended is a general scheduled meeting that occurs every Thursday at a specific time, like clockwork. Within this group meeting, several entities from the branch come together to discuss a multitude of topics; ranging from the past weeks performances, issues that have come up, how the issue was resolved, and future business. Generally, there are eight people involved with this process; evenly divided among gender. However, there is a variance of age groups as well as ethnicity. The general purposes of the meetings reflect the company’s core values with regards to the relationship with the group’s purpose, mission, and overall goal. It is through my observation, which I gained great insight with regards to the flow of the meeting and the overall behavioral influence that individual attitudes have upon the impact of the group's effectiveness. The purpose of the weekly meetings is to raise awareness with regards to how the group is doing individually and as a team through constructive criticism. It is through these meeting that the group is enabled to discuss a variety of issues that may arise throughout the week while providing feedback with regards to lessons learned and how they can provide better customer service while employing the company’s core values. The mission of the group meetings enables the team to engage and discuss an array of items that include ways to enhance our job performance while focusing on the self “individual” and...
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...because you didn’t want to appear to be the only unsupportive member of the team? Conversely, have you ever been a manager who has had to force a team through change when clearly the team was hesitant and not expressing their true opinions? or have you ever been in a situation where you have a team school project and all of you just agree with a certain suggestion because you just want the meeting to be done as soon as possible? The answer to these questions is groupthink. Along with this, the only thing that can help managers combat the groupthink effects is staying aware of the number of key indicators, or symptoms that this mentality presents. The four main symptoms of groupthink are: illusion of invulnerability, self censorship, direct pressure and an illusion of unanimity. One of the most dangerous symptoms of groupthink is the illusion of invulnerability, in which the entire group believes to have unlimited power and confidence. A degree of confidence among a group making tough decisions is important, but when that confidence becomes over-inflated and unfounded, the group may rush into choices that they aren't prepared for. What happens usually is that even if the plan seems to be risky, the group, in its cohesive behavior, believes to have the key to a guaranteed success. A...
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...Should Children be Exposed to Social Media? Learning Team C BCOM/275 June 18, 2012 Dr. Nicholas Sherwin Should Children be Exposed to Social Media? The most popular way to stay connected to family, friends, coworkers and classmates is via social media. Today, there are numerous sites available and with technology are readily accessible to anyone of any age. For children, becoming a member of these sites can expose them to situations and experiences that can have both a positive or negative effect. It opens the door for them to be cyber bullied or can expose them to a new form of peer pressure. Social media sites allow round the clock access to everyone so that we can all be “connected”. Is the cost of this access worth the benefits of staying “connected”? Social Media In todays world, media technology is a fundamental part of children’s lives. American children are heavily exposed to all forms of social media through many different channels of technology. Media is an instrument used as a form of communication, like a newspaper, radio, television, and the internet. Social Media is the main component of communication and is dramatically changing. Individuals can communicate with family and friends in more detail as more contents are created and shared on these social media websites. The most popular media used by children today are: the internet, cell phones, and a wide range are joining the social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace (The Future of Children...
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...Peer Pressure 1 Peer Pressure and Adolescent Candice L. Brown Liberty University Online PSYC 231 Peer Pressure 2 Abstract This topic paper I will examine how peer pressure affects adolescent in today youth culture. I discuss how peer pressure can be positive and negative influences on teens life and how to avoid this behavior influences through applying Christian values. If though peer pressure is experience by all it up to the individual to make the right choice and have self-control. I will discuss how the parent role can also influence peer pressure. This...
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...2012 Problem/Solution Essay Underage Drinking Underage drinking has been a growing problem in today’s youth. Nowadays teens and young adults are influenced by alcohol everyday. Whether it is by friends, advertisements, celebrities, or even family. Alcohol abuse amongst minors, needs to be abolished. To help end this growing problem, classes taught on drugs and alcohol, in all schools, should be required. Along with simply teaching minors, in school, the health issues and dangers of alcohol abuse, parents need to do a better job of knowing what their teens are doing. Communication, not only between parents and their children, but also between siblings and friends, has a great impact on the decisions they will make. When it comes to peer pressure, minors must realize what is best for their safety and choose wisely who their friends are. Required classes, strictly on the use of drugs and alcohol, taught in schools, would have an enormous impact on teens. With it being a required course, students would have no choice but to attend. Not only would they be learning the health issues of these substances, they would be being tested and graded on their knowledge of the subjects. This would force teens to listen to and take into consideration, the risk of substance abuse. Being in the classroom and learning with other people of the same age group could help students create positive, drug and alcohol free, friendships. Having friends who have the same understanding of the risks of drinking...
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...Hills “Seventeen” by Kristy Swartout “You’re seventeen and you think you’re special”. When you think of being Seventeen you think about how you’re on the cusp of being an adult. “The age between getting your driver’s license and being able to buy cigarettes” But at the same time life can still be very mystifying, without a doubt you’ll have questions about who you are and what the meaning of life is. “Seventeen” by Kristy Swartout is a poem about what a confusing time it can be when you’re seventeen. In the following I will specifically discuss the influence of peer pressure and questions that religion can bring to a young person as well as my response to the poem. “Image is important” says Swartout as it is with most teenagers, she wants to “fit in” so she begins to experiment with smoking along with her friends, but she’s not sure that she even likes smoking. She thinks in order to fit in with her peer group she must be like them or resemble them enough to be accepted. She talks about going to church and listening to the priest talk about someone named Jesus and God; she wonders “why are there starving children in Africa” if there is a God. She imagines if there is a God would He or She care what she wore to church? Her mother reminds her that church is not a fashion show, but then why does she spend twenty hours in her bedroom closet contemplating on what to wear to church? Swartout writes about her science class and how you would never raise your hand because...
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...to adolescence in general. • Examine the impact of physical changes and perceptions of such changes. Discuss the results of this reflection with your Learning Team. Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which your team describes the biological, psychological, and social development aspects of adolescence. Address the following in your assignment: • Describe what it feels like to be an adolescent. • Identify specific changes that tend to be the most striking and have the greatest effect on personality. • Explain how these changes relate to factual material reported in the text. • Describe any differences between males and females. • Identify the issues the group agrees and disagrees on and why. Include a minimum of two peer-reviewed resources. Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines. Option 2: Adolescent Self-Portrait Presentation Reflect on your adolescence or the adolescence of someone you knew. Address the following in your reflection: • Identify specific areas of concern you, or the person you knew, faced. • Relate these concerns to adolescence in general. • Examine the impact of physical changes and perceptions of such changes. Discuss the results of this reflection with your Learning Team. Create a 12- to 15- slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation in which your Learning Team describes the biological, psychological, and social development of adolescence. Address the following...
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...PEER PRESSURE Heather Bucklew College Composition 2 1310C Professor Jeffery Kosse Peer pressure is an ongoing and worsening issue for the younger generation. It has long lasting effects as it affects academics and causes children to mature before their time and often leads to depression. Classes for Peer Pressure would be helpful with kids in school as it would help children learn to recognize the issues and in the process teach them to communicate in a better way. I believe that Classes that are clearly the way to combat the trend. Teaching kids to talk in respectful manner to everyone would be the focus of the classes. I believe that this would be helpful for some people because not everyone realizes the power of words and that some people might take what you say the wrong way, feeling pressured to do something that goes against what they believe and desire. There are studies that say that 30 percent of teens are offered drugs during their middle and high school years. Another study states that 50 percent of teenagers feel like they have been pressured to have sex in their relationship. I believe that peer pressure classes would bring the issues to the front and show the students that they are not alone and that it is ok to say no if you do not want to participate and do what you are being pressured to do. The classes would teach the students that it is ok to be their own person, they don’t have to do everything that their friends...
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...Arizona State University Draft – Please do not cite or circulate without permission of the authors March 2013 2 Relative Performance Evaluation and Target Setting ABSTRACT It is well known that compensation contracts can improve risk sharing by incorporating information about peer performance ex post, i.e., once the performance of a unit as well as its peers is observed. In this study, we examine whether peer performance is also used ex ante, i.e., when setting performance targets at the beginning of a period. We analyze data on 2008– 2010 performance targets from 354 units of a national agency responsible for reintegration of the long-term unemployed into the labor market. We find evidence that a target for a performance measure is strongly positively associated with past peer performance on the same measure as well as past peer performance on a different measure. Thus, performance targets are lower whenever past peer performance is weak on at least one of its dimensions. We also find that the relative weights on different measures of peer performance are proportional to their capacity to filter out common risks. We conclude that using information about past peer performance improves risk sharing and alleviates adverse incentive effects associated with setting targets based on a unit’s own past performance. Keywords: Relative performance evaluation; target setting; target ratcheting; multi-tasking. Data availability: Data used in this study is...
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...INTRODUCTION Dealing with peer pressure situations is a real occurrence in almost every aspect of child developments. As children start growing up, interacting with other teenagers of their age, they are subjected to many such situations and many of them ultimately crumble. INTRODUCTION Dealing with peer pressure situations is a real occurrence in almost every aspect of child developments. As children start growing up, interacting with other teenagers of their age, they are subjected to many such situations and many of them ultimately crumble. PEER PRESSURE SITUATIONS PEER PRESSURE SITUATIONS CONCLUSION Nowadays, the teenagers are young naïve beings they need the support of parents, school and goods environment because they act, behave and think easily influence by other person. CONCLUSION Nowadays, the teenagers are young naïve beings they need the support of parents, school and goods environment because they act, behave and think easily influence by other person. CENTRAL IDEA The factors of peer pressure situations are taking illegal things, teenagers think themselves are accountable for their action and strain some feel from friends and schools mates to act, behave, think and look a certain way. CENTRAL IDEA The factors of peer pressure situations are taking illegal things, teenagers think themselves are accountable for their action and strain some feel from friends and schools mates to act, behave, think and look a certain way. MAIN POINT * Taking illegal...
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...Teenagers in Today’s Society: Situations and Decisions Adolescents throughout the decades, past and present, have all felt the social pressure to fit into a certain clique. They all feel that urge to associate themselves with the popular group and will try anything to meet those standards of today’s society. Teenage social conformity and lack of individuality is an issue in Joyce Carol Oates’ story, “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” Oates demonstrates throughout her story that an adolescent’s sense of approval from their peers could lead them into making rash and carless decisions. Many people believe they need to dress and behave in a certain manner if they want to be liked by their peers. Unfortunately, today’s society is all about paying attention to how someone dresses instead of how they present themselves. Some girls do not realize that dressing in a sexy way could make them seem vulnerable to some individuals. Oates’ story stated that Connie “wore a pull-over jersey blouse that looked one way when she was at home and another way when she was away from home.” Connie did attract attention from boys her age with her altered clothing but she also attracted negative attention from an older man named Arnold. Adolescents strive for other’s attention so they can achieve that level of being wanted. There is evidence of this in the story when Connie is at a drive-in with her friends. She is intrigued by what...
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... Abstract Around the world we are finding that most adolescent are experiencing drugs and alcohol. Adolescent who are experiencing the use of drugs has been a factor for decades. This has become a major trend in this world as of today. This paper will discuss the standpoint of adolescent alcohol and drugs. This paper will also identify and inform you on the common predictors of adolescent substance abuse. In addition, this paper will review ways on how substance abuse can lead to become a negative behavior from the adolescent micro, mezzo, and macro system. This paper will focus on how peer, family characteristic, and individual and factors connection with substance abuse in adolescents. It also will demonstrate a relationship that links to factors in at risk youth. However, researchers has shown that most adolescent and at risk teens are influence by drugs and alcohol because of their peers, family and individual characteristic. Introduction Society today has a huge trend on Alcohol and drugs among adolescent. This has become a huge impact on at risk teens. However, adolescent may reflect on drugs because of plethora circumstances. Adolescent may believe that alcohol and drugs may help them to cope better with their problems. According to McWhirter, Alcohol and other drug involvement and use among adolescents have been a society and public problem for decades (McWhirter, McWhirter, McWhirter & McWhirter, 2013) In addition, with new technology and social media expanding...
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...1. Why do all organizations need to rely on groups and teams to achieve their goals and gaina competitive advantage? A group = two or more people who work together to achieve certain goals or meet certain needs.A team = a group of people work together to achieve a specific common goal or objective.Because of the sheer dynamics of either a group or a team and how they function within anorganization, these units can help an organization gain an advantage over their competitors, serve asperformance enhancers, provide increased customer service, encourage more innovated work by theemployees, and serve as motivators for all members of the groups and teams. Each of these itemscan result in an increased advantage over the competitor 6. Why do some groups have very low levels of cohesiveness? Group size is one factor, with members of small groups more motivated and committed than members of large groups. A group with low cohesiveness might just be too large. Second, in forming groups, managers need to select members who have a diversity in knowledge, skills, and experience. Managers need to make sure that diversity is effectively managed, because if it is not, it may lead to 5. Discuss the reasons why too much conformity can hurt groups and their organizations.Too much conformity can result in conforming to norms even when they are dysfunctional which will ultimately hurt the organization and their end goals. Too much conformity also throws offthe balance of conformity...
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