In life, we all go through different developmental stages as human beings. Many psychologists believe in different theories of development such as Watson’s classical conditioning, Skinner’s operant conditioning, Bandura’s social cognitive theory, and much more. Grease covered multiple developmental stages. The basis of Grease, is a group of kids in high school, from the 1950s, who experimented with relationship/friendships and tried to enjoy their last year of school together before they all drifted to college. It’s a classic rock and roll musical. This movie, along with many others, are great examples of displaying developmental psychology. Although the casts are at the same age during the whole movie, they went through different psychological experiences. Although many of their experiences were different, some of the cast members went through the same thing. It was interesting watching Grease from a different perspective, a psychological perspective rather than one who simply likes and enjoys the movie. There are probably many different developmental psychological stages the characters in Grease go through. The main characters this paper will go over are Danny and Sandy, but will cover a couple more members from Grease, like Frenchy, Marty, Putzie, and Doody, and how they went through …show more content…
emotional development, intimacy versus isolation, cognitive development, and identity versus role confusion. Emotional Development Emotional Development is a huge part in the development of a child through late adolescent years. Without going through this phase in life, it could affect a person’s social well-being, feelings towards others, and how they handle different situations. In Grease, the film showed emotional development in Sandy and Frenchy. It showed Sandy when she moved to Rydell and was trying to find where she belonged in this new place. At first, she seemed unsure whether or not it was with the Pink Ladies. She eventually became good friends with them. Frenchy’s emotional development side came out when she would discuss school. She started out by wanting to drop out of high school and attend beauty school. Shortly after, she realized it was a big mistake and decided she wanted to go back to high school. She had the dream of what she wanted to do but lacked the drive and motivation to achieve it. Intimacy versus Isolation Intimacy versus isolation is part of the psychosocial conflict, according to Erikson. The Developmental Psychology books say, “A person must achieve a sense of individual identity before being able to commit himself to a shared identity with another person.” (p. 354). When this is related back to the movie, Danny and Sandy come to mind. They both craved to be with each other but were unable to because neither knew who they wanted to be yet. Throughout nearly the entire movie, Danny had a double personality when it came to Sandy. He wanted to be with her when it was just the two of them, but anytime anyone came around he was completely different. Part of this is due to Sandy being raised differently, so who she always thought she wanted to be was not the same as who she wanted to be later on. It was not until the end of the movie that Sandy finally chose her identity. Once she did, Danny was able to understand his identity which led to them being together. Cognitive Development Although there are four stages of Piaget’s cognitive development, only one was shown in the movie; formal operational stage. The book defines this stage as, “Adolescents who reach the formal operational stage are able to think more abstractly and hypothetically than school-age children.” (p. 49) This stage applied to Marty, Putzie, and Doody. Throughout the entire movie, the guys work on Kenickie’s car. In order to work on a car without damaging it, you must be able to think thoroughly and logically. The same thing goes for Marty. There is one point in the movie that she says, “I have to study for that dumb Algebra test tomorrow!” In order to do Algebra, again, you have to be able to think thoroughly and logically. Identity versus Role Confusion The fourth and final point is identity versus role confusion.
This goes back to Danny and Sandy. Their relationship was extremely confusing and dramatic. Danny wanted to be with Sandy but didn’t want to lose his bad boy reputation. He knew, though, that if he didn’t try to change a little that he might lose Sandy. While Sandy obviously wanted to be with Danny too, she wasn’t confident in going against her parent’s morals and the way she was raised. The Pink Ladies had a huge influence on Sandy considering they were her only friends at her new school. By the end of the movie, she conformed to the way Danny, the guys, along with the Pink Ladies, dressed and
behaved. There are many different stages of development we experience throughout our lives. Grease was a great movie to watch that demonstrates just how many stages we can go through during one period of our life. Even though the cast members were all the same age and very close friends, they were all going through some personal psychological stage but each in a different way. After this paper, it might not be possible to watch TV or a movie the same way again. Playing psychologists while watching an ordinary movie was a different experience. It put things in a whole new perspective. While the main characters of Grease, and this paper, were Danny and Sandy, it also discussed Frenchy, Marty, Putzie, and Doody, and how they went through emotional development, intimacy versus isolation, cognitive development, and identity versus role confusion.
The biopsychosocial theory that I chose to apply is Erikson’s Theory of Psychosocial Development. Erikson’s theory places more emphasis on social than sexual influences in development of children. The theory proposes that there are eight stages of development which last until birth to old age. Erikson also argued that we all consistently move through each stage methodically and don’t skip stages (Rogers,
It is inevitable, children and adults constantly evolve and the evolution of this population requires an ongoing scientific investigation (Eberbach & Crowley, 2009). The scientific investigation of the evolution of children and adults is described as developmental psychology. Developmental psychologists establish theories of developmental trajectories, interpersonal, intrapersonal, emotional, and cognitive processing. Moreover, developmental psychologists endeavor to provide descriptive and expository research to enhance client and professional development (Machery, 2011).
I am a big fan of the film Mask, a psychological film starring Cher, Eric Stoltz and Laura Dern. Although, I had watched the film previously, I decided to re-watch it recently for old time’s sake. Additionally, I wanted to know more about the film and so I started looking for information on the internet. I stumbled onto a site that gave an in depth analysis of the film. Although it is a fairly old film, the story will move one to tears. It’s so inspiring and empowering to anyone who is facing any difficulty in life. It makes ones problems to seem so small compared to the character in the movie.
At first glance, Pixar’s Inside Out seems to be your standard coming of age film. The film follows an 11-year-old girl, Riley who is forced to make a move from Minnesota to San Francisco with her parents. However, a deeper look at the film reveals how accurate it is to developmental psychology. The center of the story isn’t Riley and her family, but Riley’s primary emotions –Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, and Disgust. The five emotions are personified as characters that control her mind as she transitions from childhood to adolescence and deals with the challenge of adjusting to a new place. Inside Out uses Riley and her emotions function as a demonstration of the relationship between emotion and cognition. In doing so, the film reveals several important questions about developmental psychology. Such as, how do emotions color our memories of the past and what is
Not many children’s movies show children how the brain develops, stores memories and works in day to day life, but Inside Out does just that. Within this hour and a half movie the psychology topics of long term memory, short term memory, emotions, and development is all include. Although it is very clear Inside Out indulges on these psychological topics throughout the movie, memory and emotions take the spotlight. Developmental psychology may not be as obvious, but is still in several of the scenes in Inside Out.
Adolescents can be depicted as being rebellious, risk takers, and foolish. Many T.V. shows and movies give these labels to teens, and this is why most people picture adolescents as this way. Movies depict a person’s adolescence years as being out of control and daredevils. For an example the film, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off by John Hughes, portrays the main character, Ferris Bueller, as a troubled teen who skips school all the time without getting caught by the principal or his parents. The film illustrates the typical stereotype of what people believe of adolescents, however that does not mean all adolescents are like that. According to Sarah-Jayne Blakemore, “adolescence is defined as the period of life that starts with the biological, hormonal,
Child development is a very important in today’s psychology. That is why it is not surprising that so much research has been developed on that topic. In the article “Transforming the Debate About Child Care and Maternal Employment” the author, Louise B. Silverstein, presents a very interesting point of view on the history as well as the future of psychological research on child care and influence of maternal employment on child development.
In this semester, we are learn a lot of knowledge about ourselves, start from an infant to early adulthood. We know that, some of our behavior are development since we are infants such as intimacy with others. Other than that, we learned that most of our emotional development are more likely same as stated in Erik Erikson’s psychosocial development stages. In this report, we are using Bandura Social Learning Theory, Treisman’s Filter Model of attention, and information processing theory to explain the cognitive development in our group member and using Erik Erikson’s intimacy versus isolation theory to discuss the emotional development in relation with friendship and family.
In this essay I intend to discuss two psychological theories of development; The psychodynamic approach and the behavioural approach. In order to do this, I will outline each theory and explain how it accounts for psychological development, health and behaviour of the individual. In addition to this, I will explain how an understanding of these theories relates to care and would help a care professional to support an individual in a care setting.
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Developmental theories are broken up into two perspectives; Life-course, and Latent Trait. These perspectives may answer questions on why juveniles have grown to lead a destructive life-style and why others grow out of their delinquency. Latent trait explains that some tendencies we are may be born with and how important it is to be there for our children. Our parenting skills do have a profound effect on how our children may lack self control or have an impulsive behavior.
The child I chose to write about for this assignment is two year old Danjuma from Wayne, Ohio. He is the youngest of three children and attends an Early Head Start Program two days a week. The child’s parents have jobs; when the mother is working her sister takes care of Danjuma. The family has financial problems but don’t qualify for any type of public assistance.
Our egg, Don-egg Trump, was raised for seven days under a permissive parenting style. This means that we, as parents, made little demands of Don-egg and mostly gave in to any resistance he showed. Don-egg was also not punished for any misdeeds.
Shaffer, D., Kipp, K., Wood, E., & Willoughby, T. (2010). Developmental psychology childhood and adolescence. (3rd ed.). USA: Thomson Wadsworth
The various aspects of child development encompass physical growth, emotional and psychological changes, and social adjustments. A great many determinants influence patterns of development and change.