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This assignment requires Level 3 Writing Guidelines. Write a paper of approximately 800-1000 word paper Social-Cognitive Theory relates to a motion picture movie ? For example, in the movie Mr. Holland’s Opus, cognitive learning is used to teach the students. Cognitive theory is learning through observation. In the movie, the instructor demonstrated and had a student model the demonstration to prove learning had occurred. Make sure in your reference you give the complete and correct name of the movie so that instructor can locate it and review the movie as well. The movie should be used as one of the 3 references for this paper. Structure your paper as follows: • Introduction: identify the movie and theory( 1 Paragraph)
• Body: Briefly summarize the movie and theory, and explain how the theory is used in the movie. Also explain any other theories that may be relevant. You should provide specific examples to support your assertion that your selected theory does apply to this movie.
• Conclusion: summarize the information presented in your paper and draw any final conclusions related to the theories s Theories of P Don't miss this! The word "personality is used to describe the sum total of the Type of Theory physical, mental, emotional, andut De social characteristics of an individual. Though personality socal-Cogtiveneto theorists may disagree on what factors are most influential in the development of one's personality, all theorists believe that personality is the result of mental processes and social interactions. In order to get a better understanding, let's look at a case and determine how this person's personality would be explained by each theory At age 8, Monica was molested by her mother's boyfriend and, as a result, was taken from her mother and put into foster care. For four years, she believed her foster parents to be her grandparents. When one of them died, she was sent back into the care of the state system until she turned 18, got married, and became a stay-at-home mother. The government offered her free tuition to any college in the state, but she declined. At the age of 22, she ended up getting divorced and losing physical custody of her daughter due to her violent nature. Psychodynamic Theory According to Freud's stages of psychosexual development, Monica's violent nature can be attributed to unresolved conflicts of the anal stage. Psychoanalytic theorists might assert that during this stage, Monica's parents were too lenient when they were potty training her leading to an anal-expulsive personality in adulthood. Humanistic Theory Recalling Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, we might say that Monica, at one point in her life, had fulfilled the need for "Love and Belonging but due to an unfulfilled deficiency (such as need for love in an unhappy marriage), a maladjustment was produced causing her to regress down the hierarchy. Enlarpe Carl Rogers, on the other hand, would attribute Monica's lack of ambition and her unstable familial situation to her upbringing since she did not receive unconditional parental love as a child Social-Cognitive Theory A social-cognitive theorist might explain that Monica's unsuccessful marriage is due to the fact that she did not have an opportunity to learn what a healthy relationship looked like. With the information we are given about Monica, we know that her mother also had an unsuccessful love relationship and a disconnected parental relationship. We also know that her foster parents put her back into the state system also suggesting a role model for yet another disconnected parental relationship. Without knowing more information about Monica, it is hard to say for sure exactly what her personality traits are attributed to. However, by looking at the example above, we can see how each type of personality theory compares and contrasts with one another. With which theory do you agree most?
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Introduction: In this paper we will be analyzing the movie 'Mean Girls' using 'Social-Cognitive' theory. Social-Cognitive theory is widely based on the foundations laid by Albert Bandura's theories of social learning. In this school of theory, the problems are viewed as arising from either observing misbehavior or as arising from not getting the opportunity to learn healthy behavior. The movie Psycho was directed by Mark Waters, written by Tina Fey, in 2004, and based on Rosalind Wiseman's book Queen Bees and Wannabes. The movie centers on high school female behaviors and their effects. It tells the story of a girl called Cady (played by Lindsay Lohan).
Albert Bandura and his theory of Social Learning: The Social-Cognitive view is based on Albert Bandura's theory of social learning and his later groundbreaking experiment with Ross, on Bobo Dolls. Albert Bandura's theory of social learning tries to view behavior as a consequence of observational and imitational learning. Albert says that the person being observed and imitated are called as models. He says people, especially children, observe and imitate behaviors similar to their models (parents, peers, adults).
In the theory of social learning, learning takes place in 2 steps -
1. Children observe and encode the targeted behavior from their models, irrespective of gender appropriateness.
2. Then at a later time, they imitate the observed behavior in the same situation.
This learning is dependent on the following factors:
1. Child is likely to imitate and observe people whom it perceives as similar to him/her.
2. The imitation is reinforced or extinguished by reinforcements (rewards, punishments, etc.).
3. The learning will also be dependent on the observed consequences of the targeted behavior (if the behavior is observed as rewarding, it will be copied)
Albert Bandura, later on, did a groundbreaking experiment with Ross, labelled as "Bobo doll experiment" which aimed at proving his theory of social learning. The experiment comprised of adult actors acting aggressively towards the Bobo doll in front of couple of children. Later, when children were given Bobo dolls they also acted in a similar fashion as the adult actors.
These theories are able to demonstrate and explain why certain habits or personality emerge in people and it tries to explain behavior through observational learning. They emphasize the role of social interactions, observational learning and imitation, which can cause both healthy, as well as, abnormal behavior in later stages of life. The Social-Cognitive school tries to find out about these abnormal behaviors using these theories.
Summary of 'Mean Girls': Cady after being home schooled, joins a nearby high school and befriends 2 girls who help her around and warn her about a notorious clique called the "plastics". Plastics is led by rich and spoiled Regina, airheaded Karen and insecure Gretchen. Plastics take interest in Cady and invites her over, this causes her 2 friends to hath a plan to bring the clique down using Cady as their infiltrator. Cady comes across Regina's book of gossips, rumors, etc. about everyone in the school and Cady feeling unethical decides to forego the plan. Cady falls in love with Regina's Ex, which causes Regina to become jealous. As time goes by Cady starts to become completely like Regina and becomes atrocious against Regina and abandons her 2 original friends. Finally, after a huge fiasco, breakout of war, etc. Cady realizes her mistakes and takes on the blame and returns back to her original personality. Cady makes amends with her 2 friends and Plastics disband to find their own places in the school where they fit in.
Socio-Cognitive analysis of the movie: The Socio-Cognitive view of the movie is illustrated as Cady learning and becoming Regina, the leader of plastics. Cady exemplifies the Social Learning Theory in the movie by imitating the same behavior of the "Plastics". She imitates the same behavior that she might have loathed once. She starts to spread gossip and rumors, treats people in utter disdain, make them do chores that she feels is for lackeys, and discriminates others on the basis of coolness, wealth, looks, etc. This same behavior is shown by Regina in the starting part of movie. Cady was isolated and lonely when Plastics took her in and Cady felt accepted with them. As time went on her observation of their behavior as well as the wanting of her of fitting in made her imitate their behavior. The movie also shows the example of learned aggressive behavior that the clique shows through targeting of social relationships, and reputation damaging acts. The behaviors in the movie is shown to be accepted and encouraged on by the members of clique which act as reinforcement for Cady as well as Regina.
Conclusion: It can be safely said that the Socio-Cognitive theory is strongly related to the movie ‘Mean Girls’. The information gathered from the movie is in line with that of Albert Bandura's theory of Social learning. The given information concludes the fact that the movie draws its ideas from the Socio-Cognitive School. The change observed in Cady's personality from that of a normal girl to aggressive and dominant girl by observing and imitating the clique is the best example of Social learning theory. The movie shows transformation of Cady to fit into whatever environment she found herself by learning through observation and imitation of the behavior which was reinforced on by the clique members.
REFERENCES
[1] - Robert A. Baron. (2001). Psychology - Fifth Edition. New Delhi, India: Pearson Education Inc. and Dorling Kindersley Publishing Inc.
[2] - James C. Coleman. (1969). Abnormal Psychology and Modern Life - Third Edition. Scott, Foresman and Company.
[3] - Lorne Michaels and Tony Shimkin (Producer) & Mark Waters (Director). 2004. Mean Girls [Motion Picture]. United States: Paramount Pictures.