Download Psychological Concepts in Elf

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Psychological Concepts in Elf
Answer the following questions as watch the movie.
1. Rank Buddy on each of the Big Five (1 being low ranking, 10 being high ranking). Explain your choice.
Openness (Curious, Flexible, Artistic, Unconventional)
Conscientiousness (Diligent, Disciplined, Organized, Punctual, Dependable)
Extraversion (Outgoing, Sociable, Upbeat, Friendly, Assertive)
Agreeableness (Sympathetic, Trusting, Cooperative, Modest, Straightforward)
Neuroticism (Anxious, Hostile, Self-Conscious, Insecure, Vulnerable)
2. What is one example of Buddy being dominated by his id (primitive, instinctive, pleasure principle)?
3. What is one example of Buddy being dominated by his superego (morals)?
4. Explain how at least three of the following defense mechanisms were illustrated in the movie.
Denial
Denial is the refusal to accept reality or fact, acting as if a painful event, thought or feeling did not exist.
Regression
Regression is the reversion to an earlier stage of development in the face of unacceptable thoughts or impulses.
Projection
Projection is the misattribution of a person’s undesired thoughts, feelings or impulses onto another person who
does not have those thoughts, feelings or impulses.
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Reaction Formation
Reaction Formation is the converting of unwanted or dangerous thoughts, feelings or impulses into their opposites.
Repression
Repression is the unconscious blocking of unacceptable thoughts, feelings and impulses.
Displacement
Displacement is the redirecting of thoughts feelings and impulses directed at one person or object, but taken out
upon another person or object.
Intellectualization
Intellectualization is the overemphasis on thinking when confronted with an unacceptable impulse, situation or
behavior without employing any emotions whatsoever to help mediate and place the thoughts into an emotional,
human context.
Rationalization
Rationalization is putting something into a different light or offering a different explanation for one’s perceptions or
behaviors in the face of a changing reality.
Sublimation
Sublimation is simply the channeling of unacceptable impulses, thoughts and emotions into more acceptable ones.
5. Identify any illustrations of fixation at the following psychosexual stages.
Oral
Anal
Phallic
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6. Provide an example of someone in the movie displaying an inferiority complex/overcompensation.
7. Identify an example from the movie supporting Mischel’s theory (personality is not stable and consistent over time,
but varies by situation).
8. Describe Buddy’s self-concept (his mental picture of himself).
9. Describe what reaching self-actualization (reaching one’s full potential; doing what one was put on this Earth to do)
would look like for Buddy.
10. Imagine Rorschach showed Buddy the following inkblot. What might he say he sees and why?
11. Identify one example of classical conditioning in the movie. Fill in the chart below.
UCS (unconditioned stimulus;
e.g., food)
UCR (unconditioned response;
e.g., salivation)
CS (conditioned stimulus; e.g.,
bell)
CR (conditioned response; e.g.,
salivation)
Was there any evidence of
stimulus generalization? If so,
describe. If not, explain how it
might occur.
Was there any evidence of
stimulus discrimination? If so,
describe. If not, explain how it
might occur.
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Was there any evidence of
extinction? If so, describe. If not,
explain how it might occur.
Was there any evidence of
spontaneous recovery? If so,
describe. If not, explain how it
might occur.
12. Provide one example of Skinner’s principle of reinforcement (organisms tend to repeat those responses that are
followed by favorable consequences) from the movie.
13. Identify as many examples as you can of the following schedules of reinforcement in the movie.
Fixed-Interval Schedule (FI): a schedule of reinforcement in which a specific interval of time must elapse before a
response will yield reinforcement
Variable-Interval Schedule (VI): a schedule of reinforcement in which a variable amount of time must elapse before
a response will yield reinforcement
Fixed-Ratio Schedule (FR): a schedule of reinforcement in which reinforcement occurs only after a fixed number of
responses have been performed.
Variable-Ratio Schedule (VR): a schedule of reinforcement in which reinforcement is delivered after a variable
number of responses have been performed
14. Use the chart below to identify as many examples as you can of positive and negative punishment and positive and
negative reinforcement from the movie.
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Positive reinforcement:
Behavior
Consequence
Added (or)
Subtracted
Strengthened (or)
Weakened
Positive punishment:
Behavior
Consequence
Added (or)
Subtracted
Strengthened (or)
Weakened
Negative reinforcement:
Behavior
Consequence
Added (or)
Subtracted
Strengthened (or)
Weakened
Negative punishment:
Behavior
Consequence
Added (or)
Subtracted
Strengthened (or)
Weakened
15. Did you notice any conditioned taste aversions in the movie? If so, describe. If not, how might one have been
created?
16. Describe one example of observational learning in the movie.