Boy With The Striped Pajamas Psychology

In class we watched the movie “The Boy with the Striped Pajamas”. The movie focused on two younger boys, who both had behaviors that were related to the three domains of development, which are biosocial, cognitive, and psychosocial. There were behaviors were related to the biosocial domain and one being child abuse. Child abuse is “deliberate action that is harmful to a child’s physical, emotional or sexual well-being” (Berger, 2014, pg.236). In the movie Bruno was walking through the woods and came across what he considered was a farm with the fence around it. Bruno walks toward the fence and there was Shmuel siting on the ground with a white and light blue stripped long sleeve shirt and pant that has a lot dirt marks on them, a number on

Then there were behaviors connected to reaction time, reaction time is “the time it takes to respond to a stimulus, either physically (with reflexive movement such as eye blink) or cognitively (with a thought)” (Berger, 2014, pg.319). In the movie, Bruno has his satchel and goes to the kitchen where there are treats on the table, Bruno puts some in his satchel, Maria comes in and asks Bruno what he is doing. While the two were having their conversation his mom walks in and asks him “what are you doing with your satchel”, he tells her “Herr Litz gave us some books and I was going to go read”. His mom then asked to see them and Bruno says no, she then says “I just want to see what books he have given you”. Bruno looks down, and says “I told a lie” and tell his mom he has adventure books. Another time would be when Bruno is walking through the house and sees Shmuel, Bruno asks Shmuel ‘what are you doing here” and Shmuel replies “they wanted someone with tiny fingers to clean all

After a few days go by without seeing Shmuel after the incident, Bruno finally sees Shmuel and Shmuel is sitting with his head down and lifts it up and it reveals that Shmuel has a bruise on the side of his eye. Bruno then says “I don’t understand, I saw a film about the camp and they looked so nice, sits down and then says Gretel and everyone were saying these things and the soldier was so scary, I been coming here for days but you were never here, I thought maybe we weren’t friends any more, Shmuel I’m very sorry for what I did, were still friends aren’t we?”. This behavior showed that Bruno understood what he did was wrong and him lying and his action caused this to happen to Shmuel so he apologized. Another would be family function; family function is “the way a family works to meet the needs of its members” (Berger, 2014, pg.374). The mother didn’t want Bruno and Gretel to live in the house anymore due to everything that was going on. Bruno’s dad is setting down at his desk and has the children sitting in to chairs in front of the desk, Bruno’s