The document discusses modeling behavior in children. It provides three examples of how children may model behaviors they observe in others: 1) A girl learns that starting fights and crying will get her what she wants from men by observing her mother do this with her father. 2) A boy concludes that people who die get more attention, so he should die too, after seeing his parents be sadder and pay more attention to his deceased brother. 3) Young children try to understand how to get what they want by observing how others, like parents, behave toward each other and solve problems.

1. Commands

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Manu Melwin Joy
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School of Management Studies
CUSAT, Kerala, India.
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3. Commands
• Script messages can be in the
form of direct commands.
• Don’t bother me, Do what you
are told, Get lost etc.
• Most parents bombard their
parents with hundreds of
commands like these.
• Their potency as script
messages will depend on how
often they are repeated and
on the non verbal that go with
them.

4. Modeling
• Young children are
perceptive observers of the
way people behave.
• Particularly, they note how
Mother and Father relate to
each other and to other
family members using Little
Professor strategies of
reality testing, the child
continually tries out
solutions to the question: “
How do I best get what I
want around here?”.

5. Modeling
• May be, a little girl notes
that when Mother wants
something from Father, she
usually gets it by starting a
fight and then burst into
tears.
• The child ticks off the
conclusion: “To get what I
want from people,
especially men, what I need
to do is start a fight and
then burst out crying.”

6. Modeling
• Perhaps a little boy had a
brother who died. He notes
that his parents go to the
cemetery each week with
flowers. They seem sad most
of the time and to be thinking
more of the one who died
than the one who is still alive.
• The child concludes: “People
who die get all the attention.
In order to get the attention I
want from my parents, I need
to die like my brother did.”

7. Thank You

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