Stand By Me Psychology

Growing up the movie, Stand by me, was kind of a staple in our family. My grandfather, mother and uncles often quoted movie lines. My grandfather said, if you want to learn how to be a good friend watch the friendship between Chris and Gordy in Stand by Me. So it was only natural for me to go to this movie when looking for examples of psychological concepts. Even though I thought I knew the movie like the back of my hand, I rewatched the movie in order to explain specific scenes with psychological concepts. I will discuss those concepts and scenes in this essay.
The very first scene of the movie begins with the main character and narrator of the movie, Gordy, returning to the main scene of the movie. This is an example of encoding specificity. The memory tends to improve when it is surrounded by information that occurred when the memory was first formed. In this case it was Gordy’s childhood town. Gordy returned to the to the main scene of the story, the town where he grew up. In doing so, his childhood memories came back to him. His childhood memories are also autobiographical memories, memories of his life and childhood, that came back to

This theory proposes that some people are motivated by their need for affiliation, the need to be liked by others. Chris and Gordy were talking about school, Gordy tells Chris that he’s not his father and to stop telling him what to do. Chris replies to Gordy: “Wish the hell I was your dad. You wouldn't be goin' around talkin' about takin' these stupid shop courses if I was. It's like God gave you something, man, all those stories you can make up. And He said, "This is what we got for ya, kid. Try not to lose it." Chris was a good friend and told him to stop talking about taking shop classes just to be with his friends. He was telling him that it’s more important to achieve than to be liked and held back with your