In the movie Regarding Henry, Henry Turner (Harrison Ford) is shot in the head twice when he walked into a convenience store while it was being robbed. He wakes up from a coma and has apparently lost all of his memory. After the accident he is pretty much like a child learning everything all over again. He doesn’t remember his friends, coworkers, or even who his family are and what roles they play in his life and in his family.
When he first wakes up he just kind of stares at nothing, he can’t respond or even focus on anyone it seems. After the accident he has to learn everything by observing those around him and what they are doing. He also seems to listen to the sounds, expressions, and words they make to try and make sense of what’s going on around him and what are the people doing to him.
Henry is subject to operant conditioning, classical conditioning, and conditioned response. Henry is taught by giving praise when he does something right and being corrected when he does something wrong. He is taught that if he does a certain thing like walking for example he gets praise. He is taught to associate certain things with others when they are presented like a fork for example to him means it’s time to eat because he has been given a fork before eating a few times before.
Henry adapts to his environment after the accident pretty well. He seems happy with the place he’s at and the people he’s in contact with each and every day. He starts to slowly get used to having his physical therapist, Bradley (Bill Nunn), around him as a friend and a sort of mentor for him. He begins to walk around the facility he’s at and he likes to spend time with Bradley to socialize and talk to him.
Henry suffers from retrograde amnesia due to internal bleeding in the part of the brain that controls memory. This causes him to forget completely everything he ever learned. His entire life is forgotten and he has to basically relearn who he was, only to find he didn’t like who he was and that he didn’t want to be that person. He starts to pay more attention to his daughter and his wife and starts to spend more time with them.
During the war, Henry was taken P.O.W. and spent time in a Vietnamese prison. When he returned home, Lyman said, "Henry was very different...the change was no good," (463). Henry was constantly paranoid and evidently mentally unstable as a result of his wartime trauma. When the family had exhausted all efforts to help Henry, Lyman thought of the car. Though Henry had not even looked at the car since his return, Lyman said, "I thought the car might bring back the old Henry somehow. So I bided my time and waited for my chance to interest him in the vehicle." (464)
depressed and could barely function. Henry's state of mind is so bad that one night when
Bruce has just been diagnosed with Hodgkin's Disease (which in 1956 was not curable). Henry's wife, Holly, is pregnant with their first child and he has no interest in Rochester, Minnesota in wintertime, but he goes. That's the kind of person Henry is. He's not a sweet-faced do-gooder. He's a tough, no-nonsense, individualistic competitor, but he's a loyal person who knows right from wrong and understands that people sometimes have to step out of their own box and do something for others. His wife understands that too. So he flies to Minnesota, picks up Pearson and drives him home to his family.
It is always said that war changes people. In the short story 'The Red Convertible', Louise Erdrich uses Henry to show how it affects people. In this case, the effects are psychological. You can clearly see a difference between his personalities from before he goes to war compared to his personalities after returns home from the war. Before the war, he is a care-free soul who just likes to have fun. After the war, he is very quiet and defensive, always watching his back as if waiting for someone to strike.
It appears that the war in Vietnam has still gotten into Henry. The war may be over in reality but in his mind it is still going on. This can explain all the agitations and discomfort he has such as not being able to sit still. Based on research, what Henry was experiencing was shellshock from the battlefield from the many soldiers being killed to t...
We learn that when Henry comes home from the war, he is suffering from PTSD. "It was at least three years before Henry came home. By then I guess the whole war was solved in the governments mind, but for him it would keep on going" (444). PTSD changes a person, and it doesn 't always stem from war. Henry came back a completely different person. He was quiet, and he was mean. He could never sit still, unless he was posted in front of the color TV. But even then, he was uneasy, "But it was the kind of stillness that you see in a rabbit when it freezes and before it will bolt"
After one game, Henry decides to “halfway across the lake” without a life vest, effectively attempting to commit suicide (345). Henry is so depressed of his failures that he is willing to contemplate and attempt suicide. He “want[ed] everything to be perfect” and that was what could have killed him (346). Eventually however he has a change of heart and returned to the shore, “peeled off his wet clothes” as if he was peeling off a piece of himself, a layer, before going to sleep (347). This “idea of perfection, a perfectly simple life in which every move had meaning and baseball was just the medium through which he could make that happen” has officially taken over Henry as seen in these episodes of attempted suicide and metaphorical peeling a piece of himself off. Later, Henry quits baseball due to these specific moments of failure, he allows himself to enter a compromising situation whereby he essentially gives up on
Henry (Harrison Ford) suffered injuries to his brain after being shot in the head when he went to go buy cigarettes from a local shop. When he was shot, the bullet went into his right frontal lobe; the part of the brain that is responsible for decision making and language. Henry was also shot in his subclavian artery, which brought him into cardiac arrest and eventually anoxia. Due to the bullet to the head, Henry’s loss of memory has affected his social behavior by causing him to act less educated than he used to as well as by making him feel uncomfortable around people that he knew before the accident. His work life and family life were changed due to him not being able to remember his own family, co-workers, or what to do at his own job.
The bad side is how strict and aggressive Henry is. An example of this is when he yells at Rachel but then apologizes to her because his wife tells him to. Another example is when the people working on a case were lying and he wanted to prove that so he did not give up when they asked him to be quiet. This actually turned out good as well because it got the people to tell them they told the nurse the man was diabetic. A good example of Henry’s superego is when he did not want to leave Bradley because of how close he has gotten to him and he was worried to go home. He then realized that since he was better, leaving the hospital to go home would be the right thing to do which showed the good decision making part of his
Henry experiences conflict in his relationships with Keiko, his parents, and Ethel because his character is loyalty. His loyalty to Keiko was by looking for their Oscar's record called Alley Cats, Oscar played it for them. Keiko kept the record with her family's stuff in the basement of the Panama Hotel with other Japanese families' things. After looking for this record, he found it broken into two pieces, but he said, "I have the record. That's enough."p.178."Now I have it, I'd rather have found something broken than have it lost to me forever."p143. Henry is an embodiment of loyalty from the beginning of his life, like when his father, a traditional Chinese, told him to wear pinned a button on his school shirt that read “I am Chinese,” he obeyed. Also, when he promised his parents to go to China to finish his school as his father's dream, but in one condition. Henry said, "I know the Panama Hotel is for sale. I know who wants to buy it. And since you're an elder member of the downtown associations, I know you have some say in the matter, I want that Hotel left as is unsold."p.251. Henry is very kind and loyal husband, he loved his wife. He was beside his wife during her sickness until she passed away. For example, he promised "to care for his wife in sickness and in health."p.8. Also, he followed the tradition Chinese way symbols of the life after death as a
Henry’s remorse for the loss of life does not stand in the way of his
In Psychology there are many different learning styles. One of the more famous learning styles is operant conditioning. In operant conditioning there are two major concepts; reinforcement and punishment. By using these two concepts, behaviors can be encouraged or reduce a certain behavior. Next would be the different schedules of reinforcement that effect how often a behavior is likely to continue. Lastly the article goes on to state how behaviors can be shaped using these and other various methods.
We recommend that you stop reading the book at the end of Henry's story (p. 86). You won't want to, because the ending is very bleak and you will be looking for some respite from the story, something to encourage you. Unfortunately, the final part of the book consists of H.L. Roush's theological reflections on the story, and for the most part they aren't edifying. Best to think through the story yourself, perhaps even read it to your children, and together as a family consider what went wrong for Henry, how he might have avoided the downward spiral, and what lessons can be applied to your own circumstances.
What is Operant Conditioning? Operant conditioning is a type of associative learning, and explains why people voluntarily make changes in their behavior. (King, 2016) When people discover that certain actions cause certain consequences, they will voluntarily make changes to their behavior. In operant conditioning, there are several different ways that it occurs. Positive, negative, reinforcement, and punishment are all terms used in operant conditioning. Positive means to add a stimulus, while negative means to remove a stimulus. Reinforcement is when a connection between a stimulus an in action is strengthened by repeated sequence
Henry’s character is introduced in the movie when his cousin Mark, who is just about the same age as him, suddenly comes to stay with their family because his father had to go away on business. Mark’s mother recently passed away right in front of his eyes and he was still dealing with the repercussions of it all. Dealing with feelings of loneliness, Mark immediately developed a close bond with Henry. He found Henry to be adventurous and nice but was not aware of who Henry really was and what he was experiencing. At first, Henry seemed like a decent young boy who enjoyed experimenting with new things. On ...