Ellie Harris AP Psychology Mrs. Cox February 3, 2017 Inside Out Analysis Paper Developmental stages Riley starts out as a baby and slowly begins to grow in the movie. She moves from being a toddler and child into an adolescent/teenager. Finally at the end of the movie puberty is jokingly mentioned. Universal Emotions There are five universal emotions shown in the movie. Riley and her parents all experience joy, sadness, anger, disgust, and fear. The emotions are displayed in the form of colorful characters in their brain. Forgetting While Joy and Sadness attempt to make it back to headquarters, they are near a large pit in Riley's brain. Here memories go and disappear. This represents Riley forgetting events in her life that are not very important to her …show more content…
The train comes to the headquarters at times, here we see the emotions and thoughts connecting. Riley's emotions effect how how she views her thought. Also, another example is sadness touching the memories making Riley think they are sad instead of the original happy thoughts. Sleep and long term memory While Riley sleeps her memories from the day are moved into her long term memory storage. (the memories are created using Riley's limbic system, visual system and her usage of hearing, emotion and language.) Long term memory Riley stores her memories on a shelf. This represents her long term memories. They are placed on the shelf so that Riley can refer to them at other times. Short term memory Rileys short term memory are the memories that don't last as long. This would be Riley's knowledge of her cognitive functions. Like Riley's reasoning skills and learning skills. Explicit memories and Implicit Rileys explicit memories store facts and events the need conscious awareness. Rileys explicit memory could be an experience that made her scared of clowns. Her implicit maybe her actual fear of the clown. Flashbulb
Clair begins her memory by expressing how she viewed time then compared to now, she saw time in “summers”. School and worries don’t phase children, they are free to see the world as a place they are not a part of it. This helps argue the point that everything is so abstract and far away to a child, almost as if they are not truly there. Memories of
In conclusion, Riley’s reactions to her experiences led her to be generally downtrodden with no attempt to raise her attitude. Instead of taking positive outlooks on the events in her life, Riley had the most pessimistic thought process on each incident. This pertains to cognitive psychology because of the way Riley interpreted situations in different ways based on her current emotions in the movie. Although this is all about a character in a movie, this ABC technique is something one could use when assessing a situation to prevent an unnecessary
Morrison uses the voices of two people, lost from each other in remembrance, and brings them together by juxtaposing memory against memory until finally their recollections converge in the same episode. After a sexual encounter, Sethe and Paul D reflect on their shared experiences in slavery at the Sweet Home plantation. It is against this backdrop that both characters struggle to tackle their feelings of inadequacy. Although Sethe and Paul D share their memories, there is only so much that they are willing to divulge since "[s]aying more might push them both to a place they couldn't get back from" (Morrison 72). While Paul's coping mechanism is to place all of his painful memories in the tobacco tin buried in his chest, Sethe's coping mechanism is prevention. The characterizations of Sethe, Paul D, and Sethe's daughter Denver continue through the use of flashbacks. By juxtaposing memory with scenes from the present, Morrison offers a better understanding of Denver and her reaction to Paul D. Lonely and troubled, she finds solace inside her own small world and connection to the memories her mother has shared with her regarding her birth. Denver feeds her hunger through these memories as well as through perfume and the boxwood arbor. It is in this first trimester that Morrison begins to connect imagery with the retrieval of past events. For all, the baby ghost acts as a catalyst for remembering the past.
She has the ability to retain memories that requires for the short period of time. For example, she is asked by the teacher to tell her parents that there will be a meeting then when she comes home, she immediately informed her parents.
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The memories don’t hit as hard as she believes, but maybe that is because they aren’t the memories she is there to see.
Russon’s definition of memory is not subjected to one main idea, but rather an intertwining of related ideas pertaining to experience. He views memory as, “What we experience as the determinateness of objects that communicates to us what we can and cannot do,” (Russon 41). To emphasize, we experience our world through interactions with the world’s objects. The contact made with these objects provides an identity for them that later communicates to us about ourselves. Russon present this idea of memory based on two types of memory, implicit and explicit. Implicit memory are memories that we remember in part, while explicit memory are those that we remember completely. An example that Russon gives in another instance that connects to this is the idea of him terminating his lease and having a few weeks remaining is inscribed in everything within his apartment. Each object represents the identity of the future commitment of moving whether pervasively or occasionally. However Russon thinks that for us to remember there are certain aspects that needs to be involve.
Memories are works of fiction, selective representations of experiences actual or imagined. They provide a framework for creating meaning in one's own life as well as in the lives of others. In Toni Morrison's novel Beloved, memory is a dangerous and debilitating faculty of human consciousness. Sethe endures the tyranny of the self imposed prison of memory. She expresses an insatiable obsession with her memories, with the past. Sethe is compelled to explore and explain an overwhelming sense of yearning, longing, thirst for something beyond herself, her daughter, her Beloved. Though Beloved becomes a physical manifestation of these memories, her will is essentially defined by and tied to the
For Pereira, those memories etched in memory, relate to caring for her mother as she is ravaged by the effects of dementia. Those permanent
What is the definition of mixed emotions? When you see your mother-in-law backing off a cliff in your new car. Emotions are a natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one’s circumstances, mood, or relationships with others. The main areas involved with emotions are structures that interconnect intensively but none of them are solely responsible for any individual emotional state. The amygdala and hippocampus are two structures responsible for the control of affective activities such as friendship, love, affection, fear, rage, and aggression. When prompted it signal a reaction to fear and anxiety, making the brain get ready for flight or fight. The Hippocampus is known for the configuration of long-term memory, but when the destroyed the retention of memory is inadequate. Riley’s has five of the six primary emotions, sadness which is responsible for connection, for example when we see someone sad we may begin to feel empathetic and want to show some compassion. Disgust keeps Riley safe from being “poisoned” which includes consuming things she does not like such as broccoli. Fear keeps her safe by conceptualizing the worst case scenarios in every possible outcome. Anger protects her from others and thus allowing her to become a better hockey player, Happiness (Joy) ensures that Riley is happy.
The film centers around Joel Barish, a shy, boring man and his love interest Clementine, who differs from Joel with her spontaneous and carefree personality. Through the idea of unrestrained technology, the film offers an alternative universe to the viewers where memories are no longer permanent. A company called Lacuna (appropriately named, as the literal meaning of lacuna refers to a gap or hole) offers the service of intentional and calculated memory loss. As the movie unfolds, Clementine and Joel’s relationship fails and they separate. Apparently too heartbroken
The part of Louise Owen's memory that is affected by her condition is her long term memory. I say this because long-term memory is the memories that are stored to remember. Louise was able to recall memories from long ago because her condition affects her long term memory, which is where she is able to remember those events. Louise's ability to recall all her memories old and new is remarkable and she was able to through her long-term memory .
Each emotion has a different job on Riley’s mind. The job for fear was to keep her safe. Fear also focuses on things that are going wrong such as problems. While disgust avoided Riley from getting physically and socially poison. Furthermore, the emotion of anger is in charge of making things fair. Finally joy is the emotion of being happy. Joy tries to cheer up Riley and keeps the other emotions under control in order to make Riley’s life go smooth. During the movie they also showed many memories Riley’s had while
The movie Inside Out directed by Pete Doctor and Ronnie del Carmen shows the inner-workings of a young girl named Riley’s mind, depicting her emotions as individual characters that use a control bored to control her emotions, thoughts, and actions. The film starts at Riley’s birth and we’re initially introduced to Joy, then Sadness, after which we meet Anger, Fear, and Disgust. Riley’s life is filled with happy memories and moments until her family packs up and moves from Minnesota to San Fransisco. Not long after the move Joy and Sadness get sucked up into the tube that takes memories to the long-term memory bank and they have to work to find their way back. And in the end when Joy and Sadness return back to headquarters it is Sadness who ends up saving the day.
Cognitive development focuses on the development of a child in terms of their ability to think and reason, or the construction of their thought processes. Memory is a main concept that plays a crucial role in cognitive development. Memories form the basis of an individual, help to guide one’s thoughts and decisions and influence an individual’s emotional reactions (Bauer & Pathman, 2008). The core memories in the movie are a prominent theme in which are central to Riley’s development. Riley’s personality is made up of all the core memories that she had experienced over her childhood. When Riley’s world began to crumble around her because of her family moving, her