Observers retain a symbolic representation of the modeled behavior, which then serves as a blueprint for the behavior. Observational learning incorporates four components: attention, retention, motor, and motivational processes that help to understand why individuals imitate socially desirable behavior. When I relate this theory to myself, I realized that so many behaviors which are bothering me now are most affected by my father. He was a really root people when I was little child. He always abused my mother, even me and my brother, when he was not happy for something.
Even though advocates against child abuse work diligently every day to put an end to child abuse, it is tragic because child abuse can cause physical and emotional distress along with many other factors and child abuse can lead to developmental issues and detachment from others. In the book “A Child Called It”, Pelzer says he lived a normal and healthy life until his mother became an alcoholic, transformed into a monster, and began expressing her anger on her child at the age of four (Pelzer, 1995, Loc 1344). The physical injury or ill-treatment of a child under the age of eighteen by a person who is responsible for the child’s wellbeing under circumstances, which indicate that the child’s health or wellbeing is harmed or threatened thereby, is the definition of child physical abuse, defined by The National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect (Newton, 2001). Ethical theory is an idea that helps a person form personal standards to help them differentiate what is morally good or bad. Child abuse within any standard is morally wrong in the eyes of most people.
Pink’s time in school was hard for him. The teachers were cruel to the students, and did everything they could to hurt the children. Pink sings about the teachers in the song “Happiest Days Of Our Life” where he sings “When we grew up and went to school there were certain teachers who would hurt the children in
But more specifically in chapter 1 where her first interaction with a male figure was given. (Enter textual evidence here), in her diary she gives in great detail of her stepfather raping her and how she felt worthless when she was impregnated. After that she continues to express how even her husband and step-kids never appreciated her and treated her like a slave. It wasn’t till she met Shug and started to make her own pants, and that is when she truly felt that she had a choice and her decisions where based solely off of
Twin Behavior: Intervening 6/1/13 Twin Behavior Intervening Amee and Aaron are twins who have both witnessed their father abuse their mother on a regular basis and they have begun to fear their father and try their best not to annoy him (Argosy University, 2013). Amee and Aaron both have been showing aggressive behavior at school towards other children while playing. At a student/teacher conference the teacher recommended that Lacy, their mother, pursue an intervention program for the twin’s behavior problems (Argosy University, 2013). Children such as Amee and Aaron who have witnessed family violence within the home are at risk of having behavioral, physical and mental health issues throughout their lives (Bernard, 2003). According to
Sedaris and Sanders both describe their events with an emotional state in their lives, one being "Cyclops" which describes his father's exaggerated messages towards dangerous encounters as "Under the Influence" by Sanders causes a mournful tone as he recollects his father's alcoholism. "Under the influence" By Sanders truly sparked a dramatic scene in my head as I read his story as a kid dealing with a dramatic house hold experience. He dealt with a loving relative which happened to be his father, self destruct before his eyes as he watched helplessly. I can remember being at that age, where most things seem simple until I met my fathers other half. It was like night and day as weekdays turned into weekends and father figures turning me into an agitated and frusterated kid.
Likewise, the hardships Tom had to endure as a child toughened his soul and sharpened his mind. Abandoned by his alcoholic father, Tom lived in “a miserable tworoom tenement” (Anderson 650) with his mom and siblings. The situation went from bad to worse when his mother passed away, leaving her little children uncared for. Tom, who was just 10 years old at that time, forced himself to overcome grief and to hold himself together for the sake of his siblings. He even shoved his father off in the funeral of his mother and worked arduously to fend for his family.
Could it be possible that Gein and Dahmer were born this way? Ed Gein was born in 1906; he was the son of a violent alcoholic father and a fanatically religious mother. He grew up along side his older brother in a house ruled by their mothers puritanical preaching about the sins of lust and carnal desire. She drummed into her boys the innate immortality of the world, the evil of drink and the belief that all women (besides herself, of course) were whores. Gein’s mother decided to move her family to a farm in a desolate location, and she was sure to block any attempts her boys made to pursue friendship.
The novel ‘We need to talk about Kevin’ by Lionel Shreve depicts a young boy’s life through the perspective of his mothers’ musings of the past. As a child, Kevin displayed many abnormal tendencies and in particular, seemed to derive great joy from inflicting pain onto others. Despite the fact that Kevin did not fit in with other children throughout his childhood and adolescence and his distinctively sadistic tendencies and emotions, his mother kept her feelings in this respect hidden, keeping her sons’ unconventionalities hidden. Later in his life, Kevin partook in a school shooting, inflicting excruciatingly painful deaths upon many of his peers. Although this was not a direct consequence of any of her actions, perhaps Kevins mother was partially at fault for maintaining too much privacy and refusing for her son’s behaviour to be exposed and thus perhaps mitigated or prevented.
His mother was a single parent, left by her husband, who had kids to take care of in a society that looked down on families like theirs. She lashed out at those around her, attempting to hurt everyone else before they could hurt her. Zindel also tells us in the introduction to his play that he used parts of his sister to create the epileptic character Ruth. Taking his situation growing up, Zindel made a statement about life through his play. In difficult environments, people react differently.