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Behavioral Studies Standards and Benchmarks
Behavioral Studies Standard 1:
Understands that group and cultural influences contribute to human development, identity, and behavior
Level III (Grade 6-8)
- Understands that each culture has distinctive patterns of behavior that are usually practiced by most of the people who grow up in it
- Understands that technology, especially in transportation and communication, is increasingly important in spreading ideas, values, and behavior patterns within a society and among different societies
- Understands that various factors (e.g., wants and needs, talents, interests, influence of family and peers and media) affect decisions that individuals make
Level IV (Grade 9-12)
- Understands that cultural beliefs strongly influence the values and behavior of the people who grow up in the culture, often without their being fully aware of it, and that people have different responses to these influences
- Understands that heredity, culture, and personal experience interact in shaping human behavior, and that the relative importance of these influences is not clear in most circumstances
Behavioral Studies Standard 2:
Understands various meanings of social group, general implications of group membership, and different ways that groups function
Level III (Grade 6-8)
- Understands that affiliation with a group can increase the power of members through pooled resources and concerted action
- Understands that people sometimes react to all members of a group as though they were the same and perceive in their behavior only those qualities that fit preconceptions of the group (i.e., stereotyping) which leads to uncritical judgments (e.g., showing blind respect for members of some groups and equally blind disrespect for members of other groups)
- Understands that a variety of factors (e.g., belief systems, learned behavior patterns) contribute to the ways in which groups respond differently to their physical and social environments and to the wants and needs of their members
- Understands how language, literature, the arts, architecture, other artifacts, traditions, beliefs, values, and behaviors contribute to the development and transmission of culture
Level IV (Grade 9-12)
- Understands that while a group may act, hold beliefs, and/or present itself as a cohesive whole, individual members may hold widely varying beliefs, so the behavior of a group may not be predictable from an understanding of each of its members
- Understands that groups have patterns for preserving and transmitting culture even as they adapt to environmental and/or social change
- Understands that social groups may have patterns of behavior, values, beliefs, and attitudes that can help or hinder cross-cultural understanding
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Selected Standards and Benchmarks
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