Long-Term Memory In The Movie 'Inside Out'

Joy and Sadness lands in Riley’s Long Term Memory and Joy frantically tries to find a way back to headquarters, while Anger Fear and Disgust ties to take care of Riley emotionally. One by one, Riley’s personality land slowly crumbles away. Fearing for the worst, Joy and Sadness ventures into different parts of Riley’s mind from Imagination Land to the Subconscious. Afterwards, Joy accidentally falls into the Memory Dump and see precious memories fading away, finally, realizing Riley is truly

In the movie, Beth does not have infantile amnesia. She clearly details the sexual abuse she suffered when she was an infant. Normally, individuals develop memory of skills learned. This is referred to as implicit memory. A person begins to learn the alphabet and numbers as a young child. They do not remember the learning aspect, but they are able to recall the information they learned. Explicit memory is the ability to remember factual information regarding events in the lives of a person. Beth appears to have explicit memory of her sexual abuse. This is quite unusual. It may be that the abuse continued for such a lengthy period that it became a permanent part of her mind. She may have been told about the abuse she suffered at

Two men, Richard Atkinson and Richard Shiffrin theorized a model that stated that there are sensory, short term, and long term memories (McLeod, 2007). Sensory memories are made when someone simply feels something that stimulates one of the 5 senses. These sensations last for merely a moment but some may turn into perceptions (Berger, 2004). Sensory memories have the potential to improve up until age 10. The kind of memory is working, or short term memory, and they are confined to lasting less than a minute, and are mostly comprised of things that are heard. The movie Inside Out does little in its depiction of short term memories. They are simply contained within headquarters and are not major effects in Riley’s life. Explored more in depth are the functions of long term memories. In Inside Out the character of Joy dedicates her life to the creation of Riley’s long term memories. Long term memories, after they are made, are depicted as being whisked away to a labyrinth of storage shelves. This depiction is slightly similar to how our own brains work and store memories in the frontal lobe (Costandi, 2009). Long term memory plays a key role in the brain’s growth and development, because it is how we remember knowledge that is learned throughout our lives. As mentioned previously, memories enter Riley’s brain through an endless network of pipes. This can

The first point to be discussed is posthypnotic amnesia. The article “Hypnosis, Memory and Amnesia” by John Kihlstrom states that “posthypnotic amnesia is a functional amnesia, an abnormal amount of forgetting which is attributable to psychological factors rather than to brain insult, injury or disease.” Posthypnotic amnesia does not occur unless it has been specifically suggested to the subject. It can be seen as more of a temporary state of amnesia, for the amnesia can be reversed and the subject is able to remember events with out any trouble. In the movie Get Out, there is a scene where the main character, Chris Washington, gets out of bed in the middle of the night to get some fresh air. When he is on his way back up to the bedroom he

Do you ever look at someone and wonder, "What is going on inside their head?" This is the first question asked in animated film, Inside Out, and its director Pete Docter’s mind after noticing his daughter’s personality changing as she grew up. Using his daughter as inspiration, Pete Docter pitched the idea to Pixar studios where it was picked up immediately for production in 2009. He consulted with numerous child psychologists to create the movie about 11 year old girl, Riley Anderson, moving from Minnesota to San Francisco and her personified emotions to guide her through. Because Pixar’s movies are family friendly, the film’s crew cleverly used color and creative mise en scene to tell the elaborate story between Riley’s mind, the world around her, and other character’s personality traits.

In an article about displaced refugees, Euan McKirdy states, “The U.N.'s refugee agency reports that the number of displaced people is at its highest ever -- surpassing even post-World War II numbers, when the world was struggling to come to terms with the most devastating event in history.” (McKirdy). A major step in the universal Refugee experience is fleeing from a country of origin and finding a new home. Ha, the main character in the book “Inside Out and Back Again” by Thanhha Lai, is a fleeing refugee who also has to struggle with this. Refugees , just like Ha have to struggle with fleeing what they once knew as home, and finding a new home in a new country.

There are 6 valid emotions; in the movie, Inside Out 5 of them are personified. Joy was the lead emotion in Inside Out however; you find that all the emotions are important through her narration. She states that, Disgust keeps Riley safe by pointing out the “gross” in everything, Anger keeps her safe by protecting her from others and improves her hockey skills, Fear keeps her safe by imaging the worst scenarios possible, Sadness keeps her safe by helping her to adjust to situations, and Joy keeps her happy. In the film Joy was clearly in charge, she narrated the film and at ‘Headquarters’ she gave everyone their assignments when Riley woke up. Joy kept all the emotions in check; she looked for ways for the other emotions to reveal themselves

When the film begins, the emotion of Joy is controlling the control panel inside Riley’s mind. Her goal is to make sure that Riley is always happy. But by the end of the film, everyone learns that there is much, much more to being happy. In fact, at the end of the movie, when Joy lets the others control, mostly Sadness, Riley seems to have a deeper form of happiness.

The movie I watched for my paper is called Inside Out. This movie presents the development of an 11-year-old girl named Riley and about how her memories were being formed prior to a life change. Riley lived in Minnesota and loved playing on her hockey team with her best friends, and she was growing up in what she saw as a perfect life. Little did she know that her life would be turned upside down when Riley was forced to drop everything she loved in Minnesota and move to San Francisco with her family. Although Riley isn’t the main character of the movie, Pixar does a good job of portraying the things that make Riley who she is; and that is her emotions. Happiness, Sadness, Fear, Anger, and Disgust work together to help Riley act as

Once Joy and Sadness disappear into the outskirts of Riley’s mind the other emotions are left with the roll of running Riley’s memories. The emotions began to panic and feel hopeless without Joy. Joy from the beginning was in charge and kept everything functioning properly. The ambiguity of how the emotions function, feel and act when it comes to Riley is shown during this moment of despair. Not having Joy around was almost a requirement for Riley to evolve and have a new outlook when it comes to negative situations.

Emotions are not only represented in Riley, but shown in her parents, classmates, strangers and even animals to show everyone has different ways of expressing thoughts. For example when Riley wasn’t talking to her parents at the dinner table both her parents handle the situation differently since emotions are different with gender. Riley’s mother clearly saw how distressed she was and tried to shed some light on the situation, while the father rarely paid attention and felt lost in the conversation. When Riley kept sassing back her father, the dad showed anger using his voice, while the mother did not because men are more likely to express their anger than women. Another example in the film explains multiple emotions can happen all at once instead of just having one emotion being expressed and sadness is not just feeling unhappy, but also feeling compassion and empathy. Short-Term and Long-Term Memory are shown in the film by storing the Long-Term Memories we have in our brain and remembering them for a long time, like the gum commerical song Riley remembers since the lyrics are in a jingle. The Short-Term Memory we theoretically throw them away since we only store brief information. Cognitive is represented throughout the film because each emotion acts on reasoning and perceiving the situation Riley is in. Developmental Psychology is heavily explained in the movie through Riley because she deals with all three subjects of Diversity-Universality, Stability-Change, and Nature-Nurture. The move caused her to force happiness for her parents, lose friendships, losing family bondment, and show unusual signs of losing interest in hockey. Lastly, personality is represented by the islands in the movie such as goofball island and family island. Each island represents Riley’s personality and shows how unique she is because everyone is

In the movie “Inside out” we discover how all the emotions try to steer the way to control the little girl “Riley” mind but one specific character by the name of “Joy” is basically the one in charge of them all and tries to take on more of the responsibility in situations. Throughout the movie something happens to Riley and her emotions start to really change and Joy doesn’t want to accept what is actually going on that Riley core memories are starting to fade away. As part of responding to the transgressions, Joy starts to discuss the situation with all the other emotions as to why things are failing to work and make Riley happy. As the movie comes along she realizes all her core memories are tearing down and her emotions are all over the

In the “headquatrers” of Riley’s brain, there is a shelf that holds many of the new memories that she makes every day. This shelf can be seen as her short-term memory. It stays there only for a time after which it gets sent down to long-term memory. Long-term memory is illustrated in this movie as a maze of shelves containing balls that represent a specific memory. This illustration is very similar to the concept of “files” that the brain holds in order to store and easily retrieve memories that we discussed in lesson eight.

Disney Pixar latest offering ‘Inside out’ (2015) tells the story of 11 years old Riley and how her idyllic and happy life which suddenly changes when she moves to san Francisco with her family. The movie which runs as two connecting stories, one with Riley’s day to day life and the other being Riley’s basic emotions that we see living in her conscious mind. The emotions: joy, Fear, Anger, disgust, and sadness all live in headquarters and play a significant role in Riley’s life, memories and actions. Directed by Peter Doctor, Pixar went above and beyond even their normal level of investment in the depth of the character development and the story to accurately portray how the emotions work within us. Working with psychiatrist, Neuroscientist and psychologists for over 4 years to develop the film which although it was not intended during its conception is hoped

Memories, especially long-term have the ability to change over time. This happens my different emotions being triggered as well as when we evolve and experience new things. In the movie, when Riley recalled a memory of playing hockey back home, this started as a happy story she was tell but soon changed when sadness touches this memory. The memory then became blue and made her cry. Memories including experiences, information and sometimes people can also be forgotten if they aren’t recalled on a regular basis. This falls under the concept, elaborative rehearsal, which is the working- memory process in which information is actively reviewed and related to information already in long-term memory. This process is to keep important memories from