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External And Internal Factors That Affect A Person 's Behavior

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When analyzing an individual, it is evident that there are external and internal factors that impact a humans’ behavior. The three basic elements of the multidimensional approach is the person dimension, environmental dimension, and time dimension; within each of the basic elements exists multiple dimensions, such as physical environment, culture, biological, spiritual, event time, and communities (Hutchsion, p. 10, 2012). By understanding of the multidimensional approach, I can analyze an individual in a movie and how multiple factors can affect a person’s behavior. For this assignment, I chose to analyze the main character’s brother, Dicky, in the film The Fighter. After viewing the movie, I could comprehend how the brother’s behavior was influenced by the person dimension and the environment dimension. Cognition and Emotion During Dicky’s time in prison for larceny, arrest, and impersonating a police officer, his behavior in the jail is influenced by his cognition and emotions. According to our textbook, cognition is explained as a persons’ “conscious or preconscious thinking process” (Hutchison, p. 112, 2012). Since the viewers of the film cannot hear Dicky’s thoughts, it is assumed that his behavior illustrates his thoughts while in jail. 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). Once Dickey watches the documentary that was

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