1. Psychoanalytic Perspective
1.1. Defense Mechanism: Denial
1.1.1. The Defense Mechanism denial is shown when one doesn't want to admit the obvious truth or they are unable to face the reality of the situation. According to Freud, Defense Mechanisms are used when one's superego and id are in conflict and in order to fix this conflict our ego comes up with defense mechanisms.
1.1.1.1. Even though Claire knows that she is pristine and is a rich kid with rich parents, she doesn't want to admit it to Bender that she is a stuck up rich kid because her id of wanting to hang out with Bender is conflicting with her superego telling her not to hang out with Bender. Also, it's obvious to Bender that Claire is a virgin, but Claire doesn't want to admit the truth that she is a virgin and is in conflict because her superego is telling her that it's okay that she's a virgin, but her id is saying she's in high school and she should have sex, so in order to get rid of this conflict, she denies the fact that she is a virgin.
1.1.1.2. Bender: ...Oh, obscene finger gestures from such a pristine girl! Claire: I'm not that pristine! Bender: Are you a virgin? I'll bet you a million dollars that you are! Claire: Why don't you just shut up?
1.2. Structure of Personality: ID, Ego, Superego
1.2.1. Freud's idea that our personality is split up into 3 parts, our ID (our unacceptable unconscious drives/wants), ego (our reality principle), and our superego (our conscience and tells us the most socially acceptable thing to do)
1.2.1.1. Claire's ID causes Claire to have sexual thoughts about Bender and wants to hook up with him. Her superego is telling her that she absolutely can't date a boy like Bender because Bender is a bad kid who does bad things and a girl like her doesn't get involved with a guy like him. And in order to compromise between the ID and Superego, the ego tells her to be nice to him and to just become acquaintances with him. Her ID ultimately takes over and she hooks up with Bender.
2. Social Cognitive Perspective
2.1. Personal Control: External Locus of Control
2.1.1. External Locus of Control is when people attribute their success or failures to outside sources and their environment. These people don't usually take responsibility for their actions and blame the fate of their life on external factors.
2.1.1.1. Claire: "I'm not saying that to be conceited! I hate it! I hate having to go along with everything my friends say!...You know, you just don't understand the the pressure that they can put on you!"
2.1.1.2. Claire thinks that she is conceited because of the people she hangs out with and not because of herself. She attributes her inability to be friends with Bender or Brian based on the fact that her friends wouldn't let her be friends with them. She feels that she is not in control of who she is and she shouldn't have the blame of the fact that she is conceited put on her because that's who her friends have made her. She doesn't have an internal locus of control, she has an external locus of control.
3. Social-Emotional Development
3.1. Adolescent Egocentrism: Imaginary Audience
3.1.1. An egocentric stage where one thinks that everyone is enthusiastically looking and listening to them.
3.1.1.1. Claire: Do you know how popular I am? I am so popular. Everybody loves me at this school.
3.1.1.2. Claire thinks that the whole world revolves around her and that everyone is paying attention to her all the time. Furthermore, she believes that everyone loves her because of how she looks and acts, even though it's untrue that EVERYONE is looking/paying attention to her.
4. Moral Development
4.1. Moral Stages: Interpersonal Accord and Conformity
4.1.1. The stage where the person does things based on what's right or wrong or does things based on what the group that they're in does.
4.1.1.1. Claire talks about how she can never talk to Bender, Brian, Allison outside of detention because her group of friends would never do that (conformity). This is conflicting with the other half of the stage (interpersonal accord) because in her head she hates how she conforms with her group
4.1.1.2. Claire is conforming to her group's idea of who's cool and who they should be seen with by telling Bender, Brian and Allison that they can't be seen together. However, Claire also knows that it's wrong to conform with her friends and knows that she shouldn't just ignore Bender, Brian, Allison, she knows that being friends with them is the right thing.
5. Social
5.1. Fundamental Attribution Error
5.1.1. This occurs when one thinks another's actions is based solely on their personality and not the situation that they're in.
5.1.1.1. Claire commits the Fundamental Attribution Error because she thinks that the reason that Bender is such a rude and disgusting person is because of his personality, but the real reason as to why he is so mean is because of the environment he grew up in and the situations he was always in with his parents. The real reason why Bender is always so tense and rude to others is because his parents are rude to him.
5.2. In-group bias
5.2.1. When one gravitates towards their own group and prefer their own group as to others.
5.2.1.1. When Claire first enters the detention room she automatically allows Andy to sit at the same table with her because she knows that he is also "of her type" and is in the same social group as she is. Also, when Andy and Bender got into a fight, Claire automatically sides with Andy and not Bender because he is also a popular kid and a jock, whereas Bender is in a different group than them.
5.3. Superordinate goals
5.3.1. Where two or more people or groups must be involved to achieve a specific goal and by doing so the two groups become closer with each other and gets rid of the conflict between them.
5.3.1.1. When Bender fell through the ceiling, the other kids worked together to try and hide the fact that Bender escaped the closet and was in the room. This was the ultimate shift in the movie because this made the kids come together and get rid of all of their conflicts and become closer with each other.