Taking It to the Net

1. Media portrayals of adolescents' peer interactions often involve negative instances of peer pressure, including drinking and smoking, delinquency, and drug use. What would you and your friends say to a reporter from the campus newspaper to illustrate the positive side of peer pressure and influence?

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/6729/peer.htm

http://www.cfc-efc.ca

2. Having stressed the importance of adolescence as a period of transition from childhood to adulthood forms of behavior, your adolescent psychology instructor assigns as a paper topic the emergence of romantic relationships. How would you describe adolescence as a transition from immature to adulthood forms of romantic relationships?

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/6729/relatio2.htm

http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/n/x/nxd10/adolesce.htm (Click on Adolescents in Transition)