Big Chill

In the film we viewed in developmental psychology a group of college friends were reunited for a not so happy occasion, the death of one of their close friends. The group of friends attended the University of Michigan and is of the baby boomers generation they would currently in the movie be experiencing forms of adulthood. A cognitive shift during this age range of 15-65 would be flexibility. In the characters of Harold Cooper and Sam Weber we see this hands on in the film. Harold is an owner of a small shoe sales company and Sam is a famous television actor. Throughout the film Harold is seen going on morning runs but spends a great deal stretching in some scenes. This would be important as his flexibility has sense decreased in his older adulthood. As for Sam, his television show was of him playing the character of JT Lancer, a private eye. In the show Sam performs a stunt where he jumps into a car through the convertible roof and is asked to perform this trick when he is at Harold's for the weekend. He agrees to attempt it but looks skeptical; limbering up for his stunt he rears back and fails flying over the door of the car and landing in the seat. This would also have us come to assume that adulthood flexibility is lacking.

Another development that comes during adulthood is the presence of the "big 5" one factor of the "big 5" is openness or how open with one's feelings people become. At this stage of life men start to become more open with people of the opposite sex as noticed with Nick and Chloe's relationship. Throughout the movie they are seen sharing personal stories and eventually they both develop feelings for each other and decide to fix the cabin in woods. Also a level of openness is noticed with Sarah Cooper and how she shares why she is crying at the dinner table with everyone after we find her crying in shower. She shares that she feels there should have been a place for Alex (their recently