The brain is a complex organ made up of many intricate systems that work together simaltaneously to optimize a person’s survival and success in the world. Each system is intelligent and works by using a series of procedures to complete tasks that range from difficult to elementary. Memory is one of the most important structures humans rely on. The Pixar film, Inside Out helps depict the science behind memory and show just how monumentally imperitive it is. Inside Out demonstrates how the three different processes of memory: encoding, storage, and retrieval are vitialy critical to all living things.
The first step, encoding is the rendering information into a way in which it can be used. This means that encoding is a way of processing information. …show more content…
In Inside Out, Riley’s memories are stored as orbs, stored in a limitless library, organized into different categories. This library is a simpliar way of referring the hippocampus. The movie doesn’t touch much on this, but each memory is sorted and put into alike divisions so they are easy to recall. Each memory has an emotion tied to it, which the movie emphaizes. Riley has Joy, Fear, Disgust, Anger, or Sadness connected to a memory. This is called elaborative rehearsal. Elaborative rehearsal makes a memory meaningful by using deep processing (Rathus, 2010). Something that is important to you will be memorized quicker than something that doesn’t have any meaning to you. Another way of storing memorizes it to use maintenance rehearsal, or in other words, repetition. Repeating something over and over is a great way to trigger remembrance. In the movie, a commercial’s theme song is often sent up to “headquarters” where it is replayed. Riley must have heard the song a multitude of times, this is why she is able to remember it and replay it in her mind as often as she does. When something is repeated often, it is more likely to be remembered for longer because it is put into long term memory. The hippocampus mentioned early, is where short term and long term memories live inside the brain (Bailey, Bartsch, & …show more content…
This consists of locating the information stored in your memory library. Luckily, this is easy, because how they are organized. There are two main types of ordered memories. There are context dependent memories and state dependent memories (Rathus, 2010). Context dependent memories are remembered in the same way they were encoded. For example, when you grow up and move away from home, then first for the first time, you are overwhelmed with nostalgia. If you wouldn’t have gone home, you most likely wouldn’t have remembered your childhood. State dependent memories are memories that are retrieved because the mood in which they were stored is reawakened. For example, Joy is able to remember all of Riley’s happy memories because she is Riley’s joy, and all she knows is happiness. The same thing goes for all the other emotions, Fear is able to remember all of the moments where Riley was scared, because he created the conditionings for her to be scared again, so he remembers all the other times she was scared. We are inclined to remember sad thoughts when we are feeling
The first step, encoding is the rendering information into a way in which it can be used. This means that encoding is a way of processing information. …show more content…
In Inside Out, Riley’s memories are stored as orbs, stored in a limitless library, organized into different categories. This library is a simpliar way of referring the hippocampus. The movie doesn’t touch much on this, but each memory is sorted and put into alike divisions so they are easy to recall. Each memory has an emotion tied to it, which the movie emphaizes. Riley has Joy, Fear, Disgust, Anger, or Sadness connected to a memory. This is called elaborative rehearsal. Elaborative rehearsal makes a memory meaningful by using deep processing (Rathus, 2010). Something that is important to you will be memorized quicker than something that doesn’t have any meaning to you. Another way of storing memorizes it to use maintenance rehearsal, or in other words, repetition. Repeating something over and over is a great way to trigger remembrance. In the movie, a commercial’s theme song is often sent up to “headquarters” where it is replayed. Riley must have heard the song a multitude of times, this is why she is able to remember it and replay it in her mind as often as she does. When something is repeated often, it is more likely to be remembered for longer because it is put into long term memory. The hippocampus mentioned early, is where short term and long term memories live inside the brain (Bailey, Bartsch, & …show more content…
This consists of locating the information stored in your memory library. Luckily, this is easy, because how they are organized. There are two main types of ordered memories. There are context dependent memories and state dependent memories (Rathus, 2010). Context dependent memories are remembered in the same way they were encoded. For example, when you grow up and move away from home, then first for the first time, you are overwhelmed with nostalgia. If you wouldn’t have gone home, you most likely wouldn’t have remembered your childhood. State dependent memories are memories that are retrieved because the mood in which they were stored is reawakened. For example, Joy is able to remember all of Riley’s happy memories because she is Riley’s joy, and all she knows is happiness. The same thing goes for all the other emotions, Fear is able to remember all of the moments where Riley was scared, because he created the conditionings for her to be scared again, so he remembers all the other times she was scared. We are inclined to remember sad thoughts when we are feeling