Movies enact realistic social situations and serve as social learning tools, especially animated ones that are being consumed by both young and adult audiences. The movie that will be discussed in this paper is "Kung Fu Panda".
First theory that will be introduced in this paper analyzes social groups, which exist when two or more persons interact with one another, share common goals, are interdependent to some extent and recognize that they belong to a group, as defined by Paulus (1989). The group presented in "Kung Fu Panda" movie is "The awesome five" – warriors who live in training temple and follow common goal of being the best defendants to their land and eventually making it to become "the dragon warrior" – a desired respectful
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And second dimension is the one employed to the "real" situation in the movie, where the members of the group experienced "contact hypothesis" – an increased contact with the "outsider" Panda, a process described in study of Pettigrew (1981).
Since this contact proceeded under certain conditions, it served to correct he stereotype activated and helped recategorize Panda from "out-group" to "in-group". The conditions working for decreasing prejudice (e.g., (Aronson, Bridgeman, &Geffner, 1978; Schwarzwald, Amir, &Crain, 1992) contain equality in social status ("the awesome five" and Panda were elevated to the same status during those events), the contact between them involved dependence and interdependence (they were told by authority that only cooperation will help them all together defeat the evil warrior and they had to train all together), the contact permitted them to know each other as individuals (they communicated quite a lot and got to know personal traits of each other), there were norms favoring group equality (once the master insisted on Panda being the dragon warrior – he received the status of equal), they might have viewed one another as typical of their respective group, but we will never know that for sure.
The idea of recategorization
Pandas might be one of the most dangerously endangered animals in the world right now, but the good news is that there are plenty of them to be found in new game Big Panda videi slot. The developers of the game – Amatic – like always have stayed true to the Chinese origins of pandas by setting the 5 reels and 50 paylines against bamboo, known for being the favourite food of these delightful creatures. Right in the middle of the bamboo is a 20-window grid packed with stacked symbols offering multiple wins on single spins.
In addition I’m gonna talk about they’re Appearance. The giant panda is black and white it has a black circle around its eye. Giant pandas are like bears in a smaller size, and body shape. They can also stand on there back legs. The pandas can be up to 5- 6ft tall almost as tall as me. They can weigh around 220- 250lbs. But the males can weigh 350lbs . The male pandas always weigh more because they eat a lot more. The female Pandas don’t eat as much as the males do.The question is why are the pandas fur black and white. So up to date the reason is actually unknown. But they said that the color helps them camouflage for the giant pandas in their natural environment.Until now, every 2-3 years the female panda have 1-2 baby cubs. The cubs usually weigh only 5 ounces at birth. They are every tiny but they need to be taken care .
Recently, the class watched the movie “Dan in Real Life” and many people would be surprised just how much of this movie relates to what the class is currently learning about. For example, there is the use of nonverbal communication, the use of interpersonal communication, and the use of many other types of communications that are all found throughout the movie.
For most people, movies are made for entertainment. However, there are also movies that go beyond merely entertaining its audience. There are films that have been created making use of psychological principles, which enrich the movie-viewing experience of audiences. This paper will focus on the movie Shrek, which was released in 2001, directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson.
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