Riley, the main character in the hit movie Inside Out finds herself in one of the biggest struggles of her eleven-year-old life, she’s moving. She not just moving across town, but moving from Minnesota to San Francisco. The main portion of this movie takes place inside Riley’s head where her emotions control her actions and behaviors as well as create memories for her (Doctor, 2015). The characters inside her head are the five main emotions that every person carries, which include: joy, sadness, anger, fear, and disgust. These five basic emotions not only control Riley’s life, but her memories. Most people don’t know this, but our memories are structured in a certain way. They may be separated by long-term or short-term as well as a joyful
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Emotions are feelings, which affect the way we act, think and behave. Babies will grow up with all six emotions of joy, anger, sadness, fear, disgust and surprise, yet they don’t start to use them until they’re close to being a toddler (Kennedy-Moore, E. 2015). The toddler will then soon go to school and be able to properly control their emotions enough that they can even hide them. Finally, as the child come the middle-aged we start to experience hardships and create emotional memories for us to remember. Inside Out is a great example of the development of emotions. In the beginning, Riley is a baby and the “control panel” is only one button, but as she develops the panel have become wider and has more functions. Furthermore, the emotions themselves are able to properly decide how to make Riley respond and feel to a situation. Also in this movie Riley is having difficulties with moving to a new area, which tests the ability for her emotions to work as a team and to control her emotions. Her emotions become more complex and end up making her a better person (Doctor, 2015). The movie also described how her emotions work together to create one feeling. Both the characters Joy and Sadness joined forces to complete one job. Combining two emotions usually being opposite from each other creates what psychologist Richard Soloman called the opponent-process theory (Rathus, pg 382). …show more content…
Because Riley’s personality is very happy, the character Joy always has the most. Therefore, most of the memories that Riley’s contains are joyful (Doctor, 2015). For example, if people were to go to a funeral, the emotion those people would feel would be sad. After this has passed, the memory would be recorded as sad moment and then transferred to long-term memory. One of the main reasons memories are affected by our feelings is because of an extremely important part of our brain, the hippocampus (Korb, A. 2015). This part of the brain is mainly responsible for memory, however it is connected to the limbic system. Another piece that is a part of the limbic system is the amygdala, which controls the emotions (Berger, 2004). To say the least, both emotion and memory are one in the same system. Since the emotions and memories are attached together, it proves that the emotions enhance the memory. As a middle aged child like Riley, the memories we have tended to keep us pushing forward, especially in stressful situations like moving to a new
Emotions are feelings, which affect the way we act, think and behave. Babies will grow up with all six emotions of joy, anger, sadness, fear, disgust and surprise, yet they don’t start to use them until they’re close to being a toddler (Kennedy-Moore, E. 2015). The toddler will then soon go to school and be able to properly control their emotions enough that they can even hide them. Finally, as the child come the middle-aged we start to experience hardships and create emotional memories for us to remember. Inside Out is a great example of the development of emotions. In the beginning, Riley is a baby and the “control panel” is only one button, but as she develops the panel have become wider and has more functions. Furthermore, the emotions themselves are able to properly decide how to make Riley respond and feel to a situation. Also in this movie Riley is having difficulties with moving to a new area, which tests the ability for her emotions to work as a team and to control her emotions. Her emotions become more complex and end up making her a better person (Doctor, 2015). The movie also described how her emotions work together to create one feeling. Both the characters Joy and Sadness joined forces to complete one job. Combining two emotions usually being opposite from each other creates what psychologist Richard Soloman called the opponent-process theory (Rathus, pg 382). …show more content…
Because Riley’s personality is very happy, the character Joy always has the most. Therefore, most of the memories that Riley’s contains are joyful (Doctor, 2015). For example, if people were to go to a funeral, the emotion those people would feel would be sad. After this has passed, the memory would be recorded as sad moment and then transferred to long-term memory. One of the main reasons memories are affected by our feelings is because of an extremely important part of our brain, the hippocampus (Korb, A. 2015). This part of the brain is mainly responsible for memory, however it is connected to the limbic system. Another piece that is a part of the limbic system is the amygdala, which controls the emotions (Berger, 2004). To say the least, both emotion and memory are one in the same system. Since the emotions and memories are attached together, it proves that the emotions enhance the memory. As a middle aged child like Riley, the memories we have tended to keep us pushing forward, especially in stressful situations like moving to a new