Unfortunate Events Psychology

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A Series of Unfortunate Events is a movie about three orphan’s journey after their parents die in a tragic fire that destroys their home and all of their belongings. The children are sent to live with one of their distant relatives, who turns out to be the evil Count Olaf who is desperately trying to get the children’s large inheritance left by their parents. Throughout the movie the children work together to escape Count and his evil plots to live with another relative, yet somehow Count Olaf is always trailing behind. Throughout this movie are many accurate displays of key psychological principles. Throughout the movie the children show off their various levels of cognitive development. Sunny, the baby is always biting things and putting them in her mouth. One scene shows her hanging off of a table by her mouth. In many times where the children are trying to escape Count, Sunny helps out by biting something. When Count …show more content…

In both scenes where the kids are trying to escape death, they work together in a very short amount of time to make it out alive. This exemplifies the psychology principles of both social facilitation and superordinate goals. Social facilitation comes into play when the kids work better to invent something to escape whenever their lives are dependent on what they are inventing. The kids sympathetic nervous system causes their adrenaline rates to increase, pupils to dilate, digestion to cease, etc., which all helps them to work better to get out of the harmful situation. The kids have a superordinate goal of not dying, so all of them working together to achieve the goal was very important. Violet brought forth her skill to invent things, Klaus brought forth his knowledge from the many books he reads, and Sunny brought forth her biting. All of these factors were essential to achieving the orphans goal of death

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