Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Speidi!

This infamous couple has been in the headlines for everything from Heidi's many plastic surgerys to her and Spencer's many break ups. They started dating during the show The Hills, a drama filled show of their lives.

The social-culture perspective is very clear from this show. They are influenced by their up class California lifestyle and all their materialistic friends. 

Speidi strives to shock and rise above everyones expectations, which shows the humanistic aspect of psychology. Heidi loves to show off her huge diamond ring Spencer gave to her. They both also love to show off their new modern mansion they purchased. They are obsessed with spending and out doing everyone else, and making sure everyone knows this.

From the cognitive view, Heidi and Spencer think that fame and fortune will bring happiness to their lives. They go on reality shows so people will know who they are.

For Speidi, seeing theirselves in headlines makes their brains release endorphines which make them happy for a certain amount of time. Then they want that feeling again so they do something else to show up in the news. Spencer used to go to bars and hit on women, while they were married, probably because he has too many hormones. This is the biological perspective.

If you look at the behavioral perspective you'll find that Speidi gets paid to be on television shows and what not, rewarding them for doing it. At one point Heidi was thinking of doing a shoot for playboy, she found this appealing because of all the attention from males and the money she would receive.

Heidi doesn't get the attention from Spencer that she would like so she likes to show off her body to prove she is worth the attention. This shows the psychodynamic perspective.


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