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The Role Of Emotion In The Movie Inside Out

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Emotion plays a very important role in memory process. Before you can fully understand the role of emotion, you have to understand the memory process. There are three steps to the memory process, encoding, storage, and retrieval. If you do not fully understand memory process then it’ll be difficult to comprehend the role emotions play and the movie Inside Out, although it may be a kid’s movie, is a great way to develop a better understanding on the memory process. The movie Inside Out is about a pre-teen girl’s emotions; joy, sadness, anger, fear, and disgust, and how they all work together to help create her memories and get through life. Before I get ahead on myself however, let’s talk about the memory process. Memory process is a cycle your memories go through in order to determine if they are long term or short term and attaches emotion to those memories. The first step is called encoding, encoding is the translation of information into a form in which it can be used. Next step is storage, storage is the maintenance on the encoded information over a period on time, this is very similar to a computer. This is where the hippocampus comes in, the hippocampus is the part of the brain where the emotions in Inside Out were located. The hippocampus determines if memories are long term or short term and attaches emotion to the memory but if the hippocampus isn’t paying attention, it may store that memory incorrectly and make it more difficult to retrieve from our memory which

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