1. Psychoanalytic perspective
1.1. Defense Mechanism: Reaction Formation
1.1.1. Forming an emotional reaction or attitude that is the opposite of one's threatening or unacceptable actual thoughts.
1.1.1.1. Throughout the movie John Bender was constantly rude to Claire. He would push her to admit things she did not want to admit and made her feel uncomfortable. His rudeness to Claire was to compensate the true feelings he had for Claire. In the end of the movie he accepts his feelings for Claire.
2. Humanistic Perspective
2.1. Growth Promoting Enviornment: Empathy
2.1.1. Empathy is ones ability to recognize perceive and directly experience the emotions of others.
2.1.1.1. When Claire starts telling the group about her home life and how her parents use her to get back at each other John Bender makes fun of her and makes her feel bad about herself. He compares their lives and says that her life is not that bad compared to others.
3. Social Cognitive Perspective
3.1. Reciprocal Determination
3.1.1. Interaction of personal trait, our environment, and our behaviors.
3.1.1.1. Personal factors: He believes that her wont active anything in life and thinks down on himself. Behavior: He is rude and mean to other people. He makes other people feel bad about themselves. He is very rebellious. Environmental factors: His family is not very supportive of him he is left to do things on his own.
4. Social- Emotional Develpoment
4.1. Adolescent Egocentrism: Invincibility Fable
4.1.1. Belief that one is invincible and can never be hurt, Regardless of what happens to others, belief no harm will come to them.
4.1.1.1. John Bender smoked weed and kept it in his locker at school. He would talk back to the principle. He believed or did not care that he would get in trouble.
4.2. Baumrind's Parenting Styles: Neglectful
4.2.1. Parents set few rules, does not monitor, and offers little active support.
4.2.1.1. John Benders dad is not nice to him and fights with him. He also gave his son a pack of cigarettes and told him to "smoke up son". John Bender's father also burned him with a cigarette. Other than that John Bender is left on his own with no guidance from anyone.
5. Social Psych
5.1. Prejudice
5.1.1. An unjustifiable and usually negative attitude towards a group and it's members. Usually involves stereotyped beliefs, negative feelings and predisposition to discriminatory action.
5.1.1.1. John Bender stereotyped Claire and her friends for being perfect and following each other. He assumed that her life was easy and that being "popular" and having attention was something that Claire liked when she really doesn't.
5.2. Attitudes
5.2.1. The feelings, often based on our beliefs that predispose us to respond in a particular way to objects, people, and events.
5.2.1.1. Bender believed that he was worthless and that he did not matter at his school and that no body would miss him. His response for thinking he didn't matter was to make himself known, He acted out, went against the authorities and broke the rules. He wanted to make himself feel like he mattered in some sort of way.
5.3. Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE)
5.3.1. The tendency, when analyzing another's behavior, to over estimate the influence of personal traits and underestimate the effects of the situation.
5.3.1.1. Bender thought that everyone else's lives were perfect because they were able to keep their home lives at home. For example he assumed Claire's home life was not that bad and that her father did everything for her, but then he found out that her home life was not as perfect as he thought.