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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,

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