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Psychological Techniques In The Movie 'Autonomy'

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Next, the psychological terminology that can be found in the movie is autonomy. Autonomy refers to self-determination whereby people experience self-direction and personal authorization in the regulation of one’s behavior. In other words, people are free to make decision whether to engage or not to engage in the activity without others control. For example, in the movie Leigh Anne is being autonomous when she picks Michael up as she sees Michael walking down the road on the cold freezing rain. Although they drive away after passing Michael, but Leigh Anne then asks Sean to turn the car around and she decided to takes him back in their car and brings him home as Michael has no other place to stay. She offers him to stay for the night at their …show more content…

One of the scene from the movie shows that Leigh Anne uses controlling motivating style in order to motivate Michael to give his best for the game. As Michael had a big protective instinct and get high scores in the subject, Leigh Anne uses the opportunity to motivate Michael by providing explanatory rationales to him so that he can do better in the game. He walks right in the field during practice and influencing him that the team is just like his family and so he needs to protect one another on the field. Michael finally realizes that he needs to play really well in the game as he believes that he belongs on the field with his team. It simply shows that Leigh Anne was able to influence Michael as he is able to understand his position and his football ‘family’ roles in the field by using controlling motivating style and eventually he was not able to get hang off the game after Leigh Anne explained to him how to play in the field. Negative reinforcers are one of the psychological terminologies that can be found from the movie in which will decrease the future probability of the desired

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