Review Of The Movie 'Mean Girls'

Mean girls: The movie mean girls ties in with educational psychology in many aspects. It is about a girl named candy who has been home schooled her entire life, until she moves. By time she moves she is in high school. She has very little social skills, after a few bad days in a row she becomes self motivated to fit in. This movie also shows diversity in the schools, with ethnicity as well as with race. Cady has a hard time fitting in with the other people from her school, and quickly be age to get bullied. She started becoming motivated to fit in With these three girls who call them selfs “The plastics.”.At first The motivation was extrinsic, because what seemed to be the only two nice people in the schools were rewarding her with friendship,
but then she started feeling self motivated to change and be like the girls in “The plastics.” Cady towards the end of the film get’s self motivated to learn math and get better again, due to her falling out with school.

Another way the movie mean girls ties to educational psychology is the videos its and cultures that are shown in the movie. This movie takes place at a high school who has many different students. Cady who is a white girl who moved to this state from Africa, makes friends with a gay male and another female. Through out the movie she comes into contact with a few more people (Spanish male mathlete) who are ethnically diverse. When the movie has scenes that take place in the classroom they appear too be all treated equality.

Mean girls has many things during the film that tie into educational psychology, this is only two of them. Motivation is a common theme in the movie, weather it is extrinsic motivation or intrinsic motivation. Diversity is seen a lot in the film as well there are many differently race’s, ethnicities and gender’s shared.