Developmental Psychology In Inside Out

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Developmental Psychology Not many children’s movies show children how the brain develops, stores memories and works in day to day life, but Inside Out does just that. Within this hour and a half movie the psychology topics of long term memory, short term memory, emotions, and development is all include. Although it is very clear Inside Out indulges on these psychological topics throughout the movie, memory and emotions take the spotlight. Developmental psychology may not be as obvious, but is still in several of the scenes in Inside Out. One example of developmental psychology with in Inside Out is when Reilly is in the concrete operational stage in the beginning of the movie. According to Rathus (2010), concrete operational stage happens …show more content…

Formal-operational stage is the stage of cognitive development where people begin to think logically about theoretical ideas (Rathus, 2010). This was when Anger, Fear, and Disgust had to think for themselves, when Joy, Sadness, and all of the core memories, so they gave Reilly the idea of running away to Minnesota to get the core memories back. This is an excellent way to show logical thinking since her “Headquarters” believes that this is the best solution since the only other outcome would be Reilly losing herself completely. Although this might not be the best idea, for a twelve-year-old it is a very smart idea. Does not make sense to say that going back to a place that made you happy will make you happy again? This does have its own complications, but it would be better than having Reilly losing all of her “Personality …show more content…

An identity crisis is a point where one looks into ones’ self and observes ones’ values and life decisions (Rathus, 2010). The identity crisis happens when Riley moves and she abandons her personality in order to make herself happy again by deciding to steal, lie, and not look at the positive side of things. It is also displayed that her emotions are disagreeing with each other more and more as well when Joy tries to shut out the rest of the emotions from being in control, then Joy attempts to be a backseat driver, so to speak, and this is probably what triggers this crisis in the first place. Luckily, all of the emotions regain control of Reilly, so to speak, and get her back on the right track, while trying out new

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