When dissecting the movie Inside Out a variety of psychological concepts are discovered within the story line of the children’s animation. The concepts that come to mind after watching the film are emotions, false memory, and long-term memory. In psychology, and emotion is often defined as a complex state of feelings that result in psychological and even physical changes that can influence your thoughts, actions, and behaviors. An example of emotion could be whenever you watch an ASPCA animal rescue commercial you may feel sad and driven to help those animals. Secondly, false memory is described as a fabricated and distorted memory of an event, memories are not always an accurate recollection of event. In reality, memory is very prone to fallacy. …show more content…
During the first half of the film, Joy was the boss of the headquarters and most of Riley’s memories were all happy. The concept of Riley’s five emotions are borrowed from the concept of Paul Ekman, a well-known scientist in the psychology of emotions. Ekman stated that there are seven basic emotions, the five mentioned in the film, plus surprise and contempt, also explaining why the control board was expanded at the end of the film. When Headquarters is left to only Anger, Fear and Disgust Riley is left feeling solely those emotions to get her through this move and new environment. While Joy and Sadness are lost inside the paths of Riley’s mind she begins to lose many important social aspects of her life like “Friendship Island” which causes her to become angry and closed off from her hometown friends when they call to catch up with her or while she is trying to fit in and make new friends at her new school. One of the most important isalnds that was lost inside of Riley’s mind was “Goofball Island” since she lost her since of happiness she wasn’t able to have fun and enjoy her new home. The second concept, false memory, is more prominent throughout the movie. In the beginning of the film, it shows how the daily memories are kept in headquarters and then are shipped down to long-term storage at the end of the day while riley is sleeping. When sadness got curious to what would happen if she touched one of the memories she immediately altered the memory from joyful to sad, causing false recollection of the actual memory. While trying to reverse the emotion change, Joy and Sadness are swept down the tubes into memory storage. Joy then gathers up the now sad memories and proceeds to try to make her way back to headquarters to fix the issues. While strolling through long-term memory storage sadness begins to run
through the use of Logos. At the end of the film, Joy looks back on one of Riley’s “core memories” of an important hockey game in which Riley misses a goal, and then immediately realizes that the sadness Riley felt was not just sadness but through that sadness Riley also felt compassion from her loved ones. This moment in which Sadness took charge of, is important for making Riley feel a sense of closeness and security from her parents and friends. What Joy thought of as a potential sad and awful memory, turned into one filled with deep meaning and great
Everyone wants everyone to be happy, however, this persistence to always be happy takes a toll. The "manager" of the group, Joy, knit picks and contains Sadness's gloominess. Joy believes that she needs to keep Sadness's hands off of Riley's core memories. These memories are golden orbs that will be ruined if they ever turned blue. Joy, at one point in the movie, draws a circle on the floor and tells Sadness to stand inside it. She continues to tell Sadness not to touch anything because she could disturb the happy
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
The film Inside Out tells the story of a young girl named Riley and her changing emotions after she is forced to move from her home town in Minnesota to San Fransico for her father’s job. The story is told from the perspective of her five emotions. Riley’s emotions are led by Joy, who attempts to guide her through the stressful event. Although Joy puts forth great effort, Sadness takes over. When trying to protect Riley’s core memories from Sadness, Joy is swept from headquarters through the dump tube and Sadness follows. With Joy and Sadness gone, Anger, Fear, and Disgust are the only emotions left in headquarters; therefore, Riley cannot be happy or sad. Because Joy and Sadness are absent, Riley’s personality islands diminish one by one. Riley fights with her family, pushes away from her friends back home, and loses interest in hockey. As Joy and Sadness navigate through Riley’s brain in search of a way back to headquarters, they encounter many obsticles. Back in headquarters, Anger, Fear, and Disgust place the idea of running away into Riley’s head. Joy witnesses the transformation of a sad memory into a happy memory, and finally realizes the importance of all emotions, including Sadness. With the help of Bing Bong, Riley’s imaginary friend, Joy and Sadness find their way back to headquarters and are able to stop Riley from running away. An update in headquarters takes place, and more personality islands develop. Joy learns to accept the
Interesting choice I would not have caught the connection if it wasn’t for your post. Tom has very bad self-regulation which causes him to continue the behavior that he displays, and jerry also has bad self-regulation. Self-regulation is important for self-control of both characters in this show, but both characters lack it, which makes the behavior ongoing and never ending. Reactive agression is also displayed by Tom because he cannot control the frustration that Jerry causes him to have. The hostile act that he displays is due to Jerry provoking him and since he has bad self-regulation he has no other option than to fight back. Jerry uses positive reinforcement to get Tom to continue fighting back with him. The reinforcements are
As the story progresses, Riley and her family move from Minnesota to San Francisco, where Riley experiences culture shock. She and her family find their home to be more than a bit worn and dismal. To make matters worse, their furniture has become lost in the cross-country move, and Riley’s father is experiencing stress and anxiety in his job at a startup firm. Riley is uncomfortable at her new school and in her new social environment as a whole. Riley’s mother urges her to keep smiling, stay happy, and be there for her father. At first the emotions are able work together, keeping Riley in harmony. However, Sadness begins to cloud Riley’s memories and feelings and override her balanced personality. She tells Joy, “Something’s wrong with me. I think I’m having a breakdown.” Joy attempts to take Sadness out of
Each named emotion expresses Riley’s feelings after seeing the world through her eyes on a big projection screen. When something whens that would give Riley joy, the character, Joy, has the job to make Riley feel that way. The Two Factor theory explains we feel an emotion by first coming in contact with the stimulus, become physically aroused by it and cognitively label the feeling we have is an emotion, and then experience the emotion. This lines up very closely with the process of the characters choosing how to make Riley feel. They witness the stimulus RIley is in contact with, the named emotion whose job is producing that emotion comes forward to make themself known, and finally she feels that
The film Inside Out (2015) produced and directed by Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Pictures, is a movie based on the emotions of a 11-year-old girl called Riley. The film’s principal characters are five emotions located in Riley’s brain. These emotions are Joy, Sadness, Disgust, Fear, and Anger. All of them work together inside Riley’s mind to accomplish one goal: Her Happiness. Everything revolves around Riley because she is facing a hard move with her family from Minnesota to San Francisco, leading to big changes around his life, attitude, and behavior. Most of the movie is set inside Riley’s mind, where the emotions operate her brain’s control center. The film explains that our brain has functions that control our responses to certain situations, and the ways that we handle these situations are controlled by our emotions. Also, it explains that our personalities and identities are defined by certain emotions, which shape how we handle and express to specific situations. The decisions and actions that the emotions choose to do in Riley’s life will drive the plot. Inside Out (2015) will not only explain through its colors, lighting, and camera shots the storyline of the movie, but also the importance of emotions and how they play a big role in our lives.
Joy is also kind of the leader of the team. Sadness is the emotion that makes Riley sad. She was the second emotion to be created in Riley's head . She is always sad so that's why she represented by the color blue . Anger is the emotion that makes Riley Angry.
Sadness touches a core memory that was joyful and made it full of sadness. They get sucked up and taken to Goofball Island where Joy and Sadness realize that the island are falling apart because the only emotion that Riley has controlling her is Anger, Fear, and Disgust. The film uses a collection of the ABC patterns. The ABC pattern stands for activating event, belief,
In the short story, "The Fall of the House of Usher" by Edgar Allen Poe the most important conflict is between Rodrick Usher, the protagionist, and fear. The conflict increases throughout the story and is eventaully resolved. In the beginning of the story the tension starts when the narrator describes the house he is approaching. He uses words like "dull","dark", and "soundless" to set the mood of the story and then goes on to give the imagery of an eerie, evil house that is starting to fall apart. Upon arriving the narrator seeks his childhood friend Rodrick who is ill.
Pixar’s film, Inside Out, addresses our relationship to our feelings in a sophisticated way for adults and kids to understand and enjoy. Joy, Anger, Disgust, Sadness, and Fear, the five emotions that dwell in the inner world of a young girl named Riley. Joy is the team leader and she displays compassion and demonstrates the aspect of her that permits her to be happy. Anger is very passionate about making sure things work out fairly for Riley. Disgust is highly opinionated and tries to protect her from poisonous situations whether physically or socially. Sadness was used to signal when Riley needed comfort and support. Finally, Fear, he is always on the lookout and I used to protect her. All five of the emotions contribute to build up Riley’s personality. She is upbeat, honest, cheerful, somewhat neurotic, etc.
These emotions are important for children to learn about and be aware of especially when getting older and growing into the tween years. One of the two things I took away from this movie was that you could have more than one emotion attached to a memory. It isn’t a very hard concept to teach children but it’s more or less something that hasn’t been acknowledged on another TV show or movie. Another thing I took away from this movie is that all of your emotions play a role an important role in representing who you are for example, Riley is run by Joy, her mother is run by sadness and her father is run by anger. This could mean that Riley is inherently happy person who normally reacts with a positive out look on life, this could also mean that her mother comes off a little more reserved and some what sad and her father a little more aggressive or short tempered, this enables each person to have their own personality. I feel the biggest lesson children can take away from this movie is the idea that you are allowed to feel whatever emotion you are feeling and that is okay. You shouldn’t feel like you have to force down your emotions to make things easier for yourself and others around you, feel what you are feeling mindfully and then move
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Had I watched this Inside Out at different points over the semester, I would have been able to find different flaws each time. This movie is supposed to be about Riley, but it turns out to be centered around the journey that Joy and Sadness must take in order to return to headquarters, more specifically, it validates sadness as an emotion. Sadness spent her first eleven years with Riley being told to stay back and not to screw anything up, in reality, sadness is often frowned upon, because for some people, they are the opposite of Riley’s character. This movie shows that the happiest of children can go through life changing struggles and embrace their other emotions. You cannot appreciate being happy unless you have known being sad, this movie brings attention to the necessity of a balance in life.