4. Life through the eyes of a young girl, living in a war
torn country.
A hungry, bitter existence, attributed by many to
enemy troops.
Left to fend for herself, the girl has to take
extraordinary measures to survive.
Choices holding dire consequences are made
during the war, many influenced by personal
sentiment.
SUMMARY
6. SCHEMA
The little girl had a
framework formed of
the enemy army, based
on experiences and
triggered by certain
cues which brought up
certain attitudes
7. EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE
OF SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
The decisions the girl made
pertaining the theft of the food was
based off of the basic instinct of
survival. She needed food in order
to survive.
8. COST-BENEFIT MODEL
The other war victims
would not help the little
girl because the cost of
helping is much more
than the benefit they
would gain from it.
They determined that it
wasn’t worth helping
the girl as they would
be killed by the soldiers
if they tried anything.
9. FEAR BASED APPEAL
The commander intended to use the girl’s
public execution as a deterrent against any
such occurrences in the future. This would work
by inciting fear into the onlooking war victims
10. DISPOSITIONAL ATTRIBUTION
The commander immediately imposed that the
reason the little girl stole is because she was
intrinsically a bad person, not because of her
hunger.
