Inside Out Cognitive Psychology

Cognitive Behavioral Psychology is a speciality in professional psychology; it connects the distressing or emotion causing events in people’s lives to their the reactions or a belief and further action. Simplified, this is summed up in the ABC method or technique for observing and recording cognitive psychology. The “A” is for activating event, “B” for a belief about the event or the subjective self, and “C” for the consequence of belief which could be an action or a lack thereof. This technique can be used effectively and with ease with the subject being the character Riley from the Disney movie Inside Out. Psychology for children is not often arduous to understand, and so Riley is not objectively difficult to understand. Riley moves to San …show more content…
She knows that she feels terrible in her new environment, and she also knows that Milwaukee is where she was happy. This idea is to run away from her family and take a bus to her hometown to try and be happy. The event being unhappiness in the new situation, reaction being the idea and act of running away. Finally Riley ends up doing something very positive; she accepts her situation and comes to terms with reality. She molts her old beliefs into something more mature, and she ends up breaking down in front of her parents and finds that she is not alone in her feeling of homesickness, and with that way her reacting is to cry and be happy about it. The event was the comfort of her parents and her self-realization of her situation, and the belief was that everything was going to be ok. Riley’s experiences heavily shaped her beliefs, and it’s not just Riley. It’s a part of the human condition; as B.F. Skinner would say that Riley’s behaviors were reactions and adaptations from past consequences. Just like some people quit after failure, Riley almost gave up after her first real hardships. Since it’s the reaction to the events and consequences in the lives of men and women that shape who they really