Perceptual Barriers In Mean Girls

In the movie, Mean Girls, it started with a girl named Cady who came from Africa, and used to be home schooled. Her first day in North Shore High School started bad, because she had difficulty making friends. The first people she meets are Janice and Damian. Janice, and Damian introduce the whole school to Cady including a group of girls that are known as the plastics. The plastics are a group of girls who are well known, and they like to express negatively opinions about everyone in school, and they write it down in a book which belongs to Regina George the main girl of the plastics called the burn book. Janice has a great crush on Regina, but hates her because she does not like her back, so uses Cady to join the plastics to know what Regina George thinks about her, and breaks the plastics apart. Perceptual barriers are internal barriers that occurs within a person’s mind, when he or she believes that the …show more content…
Regina's defensive behavior occurred after finding out that Cady was behind everything that was happening. She found out that Cady lied to her about the chocolate bars that would make her lose weight, and also about Cady trying to go out with Aaron after their break up. Regina's reaction towards that created more drama, and affected the whole school. Regina defended herself by using the burn book and used it against Cady and the rest of the plastic girls. The burn book is a book the plastics girls used to write offensive opinions about everyone in school, and all the plastic girls were guilty about it. Regina used her energy in defending herself by writing mean thoughts about herself in the book, and gave it to the principal of North Shore High School and making him think that the book belong to Cady and the rest of the plastic girls. The book and the negative opinions about everyone in school spread like powder, and put all students against each