Assigned Article: Sensation-Seeking, Risk-Taking, and Reckless Behavior by J.J. Haugaard

Answer the following questions:

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).
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.
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.
4. How might Lyng use the concept of "edgework" to explain the risk-taking behavior? Again, make sure not to generalize, but relate it specifically to your example.
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?