Hands of Stone is a 2016 film, directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz. The film is a biopic based on Panamian boxing legend, Robert Duran, played by Edgar Ramirez. The film shows his rise from a poor street boxer to a feared amateur known for his free spirit and early knockouts. In his quest for greatness he meets the love of his life, Felicidad (Ana de Armas), illustrious boxing coach Ray Arcel (Robert Di Nero), and goes head to head with American champion Sugar Ray Leonard (Usher Raymond). Through the lens of basic needs theory, an individual's motivation is determined by how well a situation fits the individual's needs (Fraser-Thomas, 2017). More specifically in the domains of autonomy, competence, and relatedness. Throughout the film, Duran experiences …show more content…
Autonomy involves feeling ownership over behaviour in such a way that one's actions stem from a sense of perceived choice & internal control (Fraser-Thomas, 2017). Autonomy exhibits a positive relationship with motivation, so when feelings of autonomy are low, motivation levels will decline accordingly. It can understood that in the first fight with Leonard, Duran seeks and initiates the fight on his own free will. During this fight when Felicidad, Ray, and what Duran perceives as all of Panama is supporting him, his perceived autonomy is at an all time high and as a result so is his motivation. He goes on to dominate Leonard and give him his first defeat to become world champion. The second fight is a completely different dynamic. Since Eleta agrees to the fight without Duran's permission, he feels violated. He is completely stripped of his autonomy because he no longer possesses a sense of perceived choice and internal control. Furthermore when Leonard begins insulting him at the press conference and his wife winks at Leonard, he begins to feel a loss of control and that everyone is turning against him. Finally during the fight when he tells Ray he thinks the size of the ring is rigged he displays a complete lack of autonomy. It leads to him forfeiting the match and displays that without autonomy, motivation will be very low or even completely
1.) Bowlby's attachment theory stresses the importance of a secure attachment between an infant and his or her mother. If the caregiver, most likely the mother, makes the infant feel like he or she is well-taken care of, then the child learns that they can trust that the mother will always be around and will be there when or if the child ever needs someone to depend on. This is achieved in four distinct ways (Myers, 2009). The infant needs to have a secure base with the child. The child needs to know that if he or she becomes afraid, they will always have someone to go back to. This secure base also needs to be a safe haven where the child can be comforted upon feeling afraid. The child will also always try to stay near the caregiver in order to feel this safe haven, and any separation will cause distress because of being away from their secure base and safe haven. All of these factors come into play in the article "Ghosts in the nursery: A psychoanalytic approach to the problems of impaired infant-mother relationships" (Fraiberg et al 1975). By lacking these specific features, the infant going into the program were deprived of the necessary mechanisms that Bowlby asserted were essential to forming a well-rounded secure person.
The angry boxer quoted “ All my life I’d have to fight for everything”. There were many fights outside the ring that where fueled by anger, for example because of his explosive temper he lost his wife and only daughter. You did not want to be around an angry La Motta either inside the ring or outside of the ring.
Compare and Contrast the approach to studying children’s friendships taken in the Bigelow and La Gaipa (1975) study with that taken by William Corsaro.
* Predict: Offering predictions (or hypotheses) about how a given condition or set of conditions will affect
This would fall under over generalization. I believe that me taking a small argument or incident that many times has nothing to do with myself, and turning on to negative thought about myself not being good enough for other person is something I definitely
put your opinion in e.g. I believe this perspective can help an individual who has a fear or phobia by seeing why the individual is so scared. I also think that the behaviourist perspective can help measure changes of a behaviour. On the other hand I feel that the behaviourist perspective doesn’t take in the biological perspective.
In the film, Passchendaele, we are introduced to Sergeant Michael Dunne, where he is fighting in Vimy Ridge and injured, and subsequently flown back to Canada—Calgary, Alberta. Whilst in recovery, he meets nurse Sarah Mann, and his father being German and fought with the Germans, she is thereby discriminated and dismissed. During his recuperation, Dunne is diagnosed as neurasthenic—being mentally and physically ill. Once Dunne is released from recovery, he returns to a local recruitment centre to draft soldiers, and encounters Sarah’s brother, David. His desire to join the army is not for national pride, but rather for the respect of his girlfriend’s father. Being asthmatic and seemingly unsuitable, Dunne does not recruit him, but later finds
The Edge of Seventeen, Film Conveys the Importance of School Professionals Related to Teenage Depression
The FDA plays a very prominent role in everyone’s lives whether people realize it or not. The role of the Food and Drug Administration is to put regulations in place in order to keep the population safe from disease, like ones that come from contamination of meat in slaughterhouses. The problem of contamination of meat often originates from a lack of cleanliness in slaughterhouses and stockyards, which is something that stockyards and slaughterhouses lacked much of in the book Devil in the White City.
If one was to achieve autonomy then they would have a feeling of confidence, but if those that don’t achieve autonomy doubt their own abilities and have a sense of inadequacy (Cherry, 2011). The effects of autonomy can also come back and haunt a person an adult, even if they achieved it as a child. One of the most common scenarios would be when someone works for a company and their boss does not allow them to take pride in their work or make decision by themselves (Inglish). This lack in autonomy that is forced upon them is one of the most common reasons why a person leaves their job (Inglish).
The principles and theories of Social Psychology are important and useful in assessing behaviors in situations. These social psychological principles and their applications can be seen in fictional films which can also be attributed to everyday life. One such film that holds certain social psychological perspectives is Will Gluck’s 2010 production of Easy A. A film about high school student Olive Penderghast and how a sudden change in popularity and financial status, after an unintentional rumor about how she supposedly lost her virginity to a college guy spread through the entire her school. The film draws on the behavioral connections of pronounced hussy Olive Penderghast and her English class’s assigned reading of The Scarlet Letter.
“I am a fat boy at heart, so it is challenging going on diets”, the athlete complains to me. I ask what his favorite dishes are, and as he let me know what they are his mouth was nearly watering. His most important conflict or dilemma is that Adrian purposely forfeiting fights. His opponent’s manager or promoter proposes large amounts of money to throw a match. “The money is very tempting and can change my life very much, but my love of boxing takes over temptation”, the pro boxer admits to me. He also said in a chill way that he does not worry about those situations that much any more because he has camaraderie for himself. “It happens to many other boxers like myself all the time so it is something I get used to”, he states. Adrian has not been on the top of his game lately, but he is clairvoyant to his bright future in his career. My personal interview with professional boxer Adrian Dub is just the beginning of why image, family, and money affect boxers that choose to forfeit
A psychological theory that can contribute to the explanation of David Snow and why he murdered and sexually assaulted individuals would be Freud’s psychoanalytic theory. According to Freud, one is more likely to abide criminal behaviour when there is disruption during childhood psychosexual development (Brookman, 2005a). In addition to development interruption, having a weak conscious will coincide with the likelihood of criminal behaviour (Brookman, 2005a). The mind is comprised of the Id, Ego and Superego, and when there is a conflict of these three efforts to make decisions results in a weaker ability to make sufficient judgement (Brookman, 2005a). The Ego is supposed to reflect adequate judgement through learning upon poor urges that lead
Among the most common human behaviors, crying is one of the most important ones. There are many reasons an infant will cry. Among the most common are: hunger, a dirty diaper, the need to be held, tired, too hot or cold, too much or too little stimulation and being sick. Crying is a basic human behavior that is carried from infancy into adulthood. Crying allows someone else to know that there is something wrong that could potentially harm a human. Think of crying as an fire alarm. A fire alarm alerts people to get out, that there is danger near. The same works for crying, it's the way the body communicates with others to raise a red flag. Let’s take a look at some of these reasons and compare them between infancy and into
Following high school graduation, it was pertinent to attend university if I hoped to have a chance at pursuing a career in neuroscience. Initially, I had dreams of studying biology to one day become a neurosurgeon, which is why I chose to attend a school with an excellent pre-medical program such as Loyola University Chicago. However, my career plans soon changed when my great aunt was diagnosed with dementia almost a year later. At the beginning of her diagnosis, there was barely a difference between her behavior then and that of several months ago. As time went on, she began to ask me more and more questions every time she saw me until it came to a point where she had no recollection of who I was; several months later, she could no longer recognize her husband. She passed away shortly after and it was almost a relief that she would no longer be suffering to live through life day by day confused by everyone