Multidimensional Analysis of Dicky’s Behavior in THE FIGHTER
In the multidimensional approach, there are three basic elements that impact a person’s behavior, which are the person, environment, and time dimensions. Within each of the basic elements exists multiple dimensions, such as physical environment, biological, event time, and communities (Hutchsion, p. 10, 2012). The multidimensional approach can be used to analyze an individual in a movie by how certain factors can affect a person’s behavior. For this assignment, Dicky from the film The Fighter, will be analyzed on how the person and environment dimension impacts his behavior.
Cognition and Emotion
When Dicky was sentenced to prison for larceny and impersonating a police officer, his behavior in the jail was influenced by his cognition and emotions. Jean Piaget’s cognition theory is relevant in Dicky’s situation as he undergoes assimilation, which means “responding to experiences based on existing schemata” (Hutchison, p. 113, 2012). The assimilation starts once Dicky heard the townspeople’s views about him and seen how his son witnessed his trial. At that moment he began to realize that he must change his ways in order to fulfill the supportive brother role for Mickey and the father role for his son. Dicky then turns the television off and states, “that’s my son, he’s crying, he needs, me and I am fucking …show more content…
That moment is when Dicky’s original feelings of pride in being a returning inmate alters, and then Dicky begins to formulate a recovery plan by making changes within himself. Through the emotion dimension, the psychoanalytic theory is the idea is that “we experience positive
In the multidimensional approach, there are three basic elements that impact a person’s behavior, which are the person, environment, and time dimensions. Within each of the basic elements exists multiple dimensions, such as physical environment, biological, event time, and communities (Hutchsion, p. 10, 2012). The multidimensional approach can be used to analyze an individual in a movie by how certain factors can affect a person’s behavior. For this assignment, Dicky from the film The Fighter, will be analyzed on how the person and environment dimension impacts his behavior.
Cognition and Emotion
When Dicky was sentenced to prison for larceny and impersonating a police officer, his behavior in the jail was influenced by his cognition and emotions. Jean Piaget’s cognition theory is relevant in Dicky’s situation as he undergoes assimilation, which means “responding to experiences based on existing schemata” (Hutchison, p. 113, 2012). The assimilation starts once Dicky heard the townspeople’s views about him and seen how his son witnessed his trial. At that moment he began to realize that he must change his ways in order to fulfill the supportive brother role for Mickey and the father role for his son. Dicky then turns the television off and states, “that’s my son, he’s crying, he needs, me and I am fucking …show more content…
That moment is when Dicky’s original feelings of pride in being a returning inmate alters, and then Dicky begins to formulate a recovery plan by making changes within himself. Through the emotion dimension, the psychoanalytic theory is the idea is that “we experience positive