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Inside Out Analysis Paper

Decent Essays

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.
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