Dwight Schrute is a character from the television show, “The Office.” The show simply follows the daily lives of the people who work for a paper company, Dunder Mifflin at their branch in Scranton, PA branch. All of the workers know they’re being filmed, but don’t find out until the very end that they are actually going to be a part of a TV. Show (it’s like a show within a show). Dwight is the top salesman at the Scranton Branch and a few daily struggles. For example, he is never given a real opportunity to become manager, in which he actually deserves. Also, his desk is next to a salesman, Jim Halpert, who is always playing pranks on Dwight for his own entertainment, and he is fighting a constant struggle of finding a woman who can bear his
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From the beginning, Dwight tries to plan ways to attack Jim and get him fired because he believes that will solve the problem. Everything Jim does to Dwight, he immediately runs to Michael Scott, the manager, to tell on Jim; almost as if he was a little child tattle telling. From a behaviorist’s point of view, I think Dwight has learned this response of telling on Jim because he had a brother and a sister. Telling on his siblings when they did something to him has become a learned response, or a habit because once he tells on them they get punished. Social cognitive learning theorists would analyze those actions in the sense that Dwight is anticipating Jim to get punished when he tells on him, but in the end it never happens. Therefore he eventually gives up on that method of trying to get Jim in …show more content…
Towards the start of the show, he has a low sense of self-efficacy because he hasn’t had much success with his relationships in past, and hasn’t been able to reproduce. Gradually, as his relationship with Angela, an accountant at the branch, grows, he gains a higher sense of self-efficacy and eventually becomes successful in having a child. This desire for having a lot of children can also be considered a learned behavior from a behaviorist’s point of view because that’s what his parents did. When owning and working on a farm, one generally needs and wants to have lots of children, especially boys, to tend to the farm. His parents had multiple children, most likely for that reason, so he learned that behavior and wanted children of his
From the beginning, Dwight tries to plan ways to attack Jim and get him fired because he believes that will solve the problem. Everything Jim does to Dwight, he immediately runs to Michael Scott, the manager, to tell on Jim; almost as if he was a little child tattle telling. From a behaviorist’s point of view, I think Dwight has learned this response of telling on Jim because he had a brother and a sister. Telling on his siblings when they did something to him has become a learned response, or a habit because once he tells on them they get punished. Social cognitive learning theorists would analyze those actions in the sense that Dwight is anticipating Jim to get punished when he tells on him, but in the end it never happens. Therefore he eventually gives up on that method of trying to get Jim in …show more content…
Towards the start of the show, he has a low sense of self-efficacy because he hasn’t had much success with his relationships in past, and hasn’t been able to reproduce. Gradually, as his relationship with Angela, an accountant at the branch, grows, he gains a higher sense of self-efficacy and eventually becomes successful in having a child. This desire for having a lot of children can also be considered a learned behavior from a behaviorist’s point of view because that’s what his parents did. When owning and working on a farm, one generally needs and wants to have lots of children, especially boys, to tend to the farm. His parents had multiple children, most likely for that reason, so he learned that behavior and wanted children of his