1. The Movie “Inside out” is about a 11-year old girl named Riley, who is has to move away from her life in the Midwest when her dad starts a new job in San Francisco. The movie focuses on Riley’s emotions, Joy – the leader, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust, and how they guide her through this difficult time. The emotions live in the Headquarters inside Riley’s mind, where they help to advise her in everyday life. Joy tries to keep Sadness away from Riley’s memory’s in order to prevent her from making them sad, but when Joy, and Sadness are taken away from headquarters, the other emotions must try to keep things in control. While trying to make their way back to headquarters Joy comes to realizes that Sadness in not just useful, but necessary …show more content…
Inside out has a lot of psychological content including the Universality hypothesis. The universal hypothesis that human experiences the same basic 6 emotions, anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness and surprise, its applies to this this movie in that the emotions in the headquarters of Riley’s mind are 5 of those 6 emotions. Another psychological aspect in this movies would be memory encoding. The is a lot of encoding going on throughout the movie, and showing of how some memories are stronger than others, thus contributing to our personalities. As wells as that other memories are transmitted to our long term memories and many end up being forgotten. We see this memory encoding when Joy and Sadness are taken out of headquarters as well as within headquarters when memories are being form. There’s also aspects of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs being incorporating into this movie. When Riley starts to fight with her parents, especially her dad, her belongingness and love needs suffer preventing her from fulfilling her esteem and self-actualization needs. I also notice the Canon Bard theory when Disgust sees the broccoli it triggers Riley to feel disgust and say “ew”. Another thing that I notice in the movie was the facial feedback theory, when Riley is starting her first day at her new school although she is nervous, she out a smile on her face and this makes her feel confident going into school, show how emotional expression can cause the emotion they signify. The main way I was …show more content…
The main thing that stood out to me from this film was how Joy was attempt to keep sadness away for Riley’s memories and not realizing the importance of Sadness in Riley life. By preventing Riley from experiencing sadness, Joy inadvertently made the transition of the move harder on Riley. Since Riley wasn’t able to express how she was feeling she wasn’t able get that emotional support from her parents that she needed. When Joy finally realise the importance of Sadness and allowed her to control the panel, Riley was able to express how she’s been feeling with her parents and start to feel better. This stood out to because I think a lot of the times we forget how important all our emotions are for our mental functioning including sadness. As we discussed in class, it is necessary for us to experience sadness not only to experience other emotions, but also because sadness allows us to feel empathy and etc. for others, so I do think this portrayal of Sadness being very important to be accurate. I was really encouraged by this movie because it was exploring these ideas of validating all our emotions, and I think that concept of accepting our emotions is something more people need to be aware of. For me personally, this movie made me feel empathetic towards riley because I could relate to her situation of moving away from her friends. I also felt happy at the end of the movie when Riley was finally able to express to her parents how she had been
This movie was able to demonstrate that when someone is diagnosed with a disorder in a family especially if is a child how it can affect the family. The parents could have more attention towards the child and forget that they have other kids that need them as well. There could also be tension between the mother and father because they might want to deal with everything a different way. The whole family just needs to be united and accommodate to have a new lifestyle where everyone is included in the
During their journey they hit those really dangerous places she told joy about in abstract thought. Sadness also tells joy to scare riley in her dream to wake her up but she doesn’t listen and gives her a fun dream that wouldn’t wake her up, making the train out of service because riley is a sleep. They end up finding a way to get back to headquarters to make riley happy again and to put back the four core memories. In the movie sadness realizes she is smart and thinks stuff through more than the rest of the emotions. Although, sadness gives of this negative personality and say things like “I only make things worse! Riley’s better off without me”, “I’m too sad to walk” she shows compassionate towards others. Sadness true purpose is proved during the journey through Riley’s mind with joy and Bing Bong. Her role becomes to tell others when riley really need help and helps her express her true feelings to her parents about moving. After sadness helped riley when no other emotion else could, they finally accepted her. Joy realizes why sadness is useful so she starts to treat her with respect. During the movie sadness give the logic of pathos by calling for equality between the other
The Pixar film, Inside Out, begins with a girl named Riley. She grew up in a small town in Minnesota and then moved to the city of San Francisco. Viewers follow Riley’s journey in her head. Throughout the movie, we see the changes in Riley’s mind through the actions of the emotions and events that occur. Inside Out is a film that accurately depicts many aspects of psychology.
The movie teaches us to look beyond the cover and into who someone is as a person. We also learn that sometimes contact with people makes us reconsider our judgement towards them, to find out the real person underneath.
...o this movie more than then the other because I am a Chinese American. I don’t relate so much to the daughters but more than the mothers, since I am a 2nd generation Chinese. The movie was more about the spirits and dreams of the mothers and the hopes for a better life for their daughters in America. The struggle between the two cultures and the acceptance of mother and daughter are also present in the movie. By looking at the different stories of mother and daughter I could see the differences in the Culture and the gap that they had to overcome. I think that in my life the gap is much smaller than the gap that the mother and daughters had to overcome. I think this because of the way that my mom raised me. She raised me thinking nothing but the best for me. I think that I can live up to her expectations because of the way that she accepts what I do. The movie opened my eyes to this and made me think, and to come to a conclusion on why I do what I do. The ugly duckling that came from afar and grew into more than what it was supposed to be, a beautiful swan. But taken away and only the feather and the memories of what it was. A beautiful swan, that proved everyone wrong.
Fortuitously, the movie has turned out to be one of the best motion pictures of the year. Once again, Clint Eastwood surprises us all with his work as a film director. He gives the audience a chance to consider life from another viewpoint. The movie makes one think about what he or she has achieved in life and Maggie shows us that it is never too late to have a dream fulfilled. After all, this is why we are actually born and live to fulfill our dreams.
As the audience watches the film they can come to realize that sometimes people need to open their eyes to new ideas. They become aware that one person can make a difference in another person’s life. This film is about that, changing your life. Billy Elliot would not have ever thought to become a dancer, yet is willing to take the risk and he discovers that he loves it. The audience can connect to the main character because they understand that sometimes risks have to be taken. Mrs. Wilkinson shows that it is okay to change and do something different.
Firstly, trauma is re-experienced long after the original event. Charlie constantly re-experiences the horror of Aunt Helen's death in flashbacks to the night she died and his sexual abuse. Will's brutal fistfights are a re-experiencing of his trauma. The second criterion is the avoidance of stimuli that remind the victim of the trauma. Charlie actively avoids anything that worsens his flashbacks during Christmas, the anniversary of Aunt Helen's death. Will represses his memories by lying about his family history to avoid confronting the truth of his abuse. Thirdly, the trauma causes negative changes in cognition and mood. Charlie suffers from dissociative amnesia, the inability to remember aspects of his trauma (like Aunt Helen abusing him and his violent involvement in a fight to protect his gay friend Patrick). Charlie also has a distorted perspective when laying blame (American Psychiatric Association, 2013); he wrongly blames himself for things that are not his fault, like Aunt Helen's death. Will similarly has a distorted perspective of blame, except that he blames others for his problems. His hatred of wealthy people stems from his poor upbringing where financial stress nay have caused his foster father to abuse him. Finally, negative changes in arousal are observed. Will's overly
At first glance, Pixar’s Inside Out seems to be your standard coming of age film. The film follows an 11-year-old girl, Riley who is forced to make a move from Minnesota to San Francisco with her parents. However, a deeper look at the film reveals how accurate it is to developmental psychology. The center of the story isn’t Riley and her family, but Riley’s primary emotions –Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger, and Disgust. The five emotions are personified as characters that control her mind as she transitions from childhood to adolescence and deals with the challenge of adjusting to a new place. Inside Out uses Riley and her emotions function as a demonstration of the relationship between emotion and cognition. In doing so, the film reveals several important questions about developmental psychology. Such as, how do emotions color our memories of the past and what is
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.
Self-Schemas are a very important part of your life and if any one of which is removed hypothetically can lead to a huge gap in your personality just like removing a piece of puzzle would make the picture incomplete and confused. So basically, as we saw in the movie, the different islands of personality were basically self-schemas of herself. For example, the Island of family guided her attitudes towards her family and the memories made with her family were the driving force
My paper is based on an article from the text’s web site (chapter 9) entitled “Lack of sleep ages body’s systems.” The basic claim of the article is that sleep deprivation has various harmful effects on the body. The reported effects include decreased ability to metabolize glucose (similar to what occurs in diabetes) and increased levels of cortisol (a stress hormone involved in memory and regulation of blood sugar levels). The article also briefly alludes (in the quote at the bottom of page 1) to unspecified changes in brain and immune functioning with sleep deprivation.
This film challenged my previous thoughts of bipolar disorder and took me into personal accounts of people suffering from this horrible disorder. I learned that individuals that are diagnosed with bipolar disorder are not the same and have different experiences of how the disease affected their life. I was honestly shocked at the fact that a disease in the brain can make you go into a manic state of mind and then fall into a deep depression. One of the most eye opening parts in the film was when Cheri was going to a client’s house and had to look into the mirror before she went in and told herself to put on her game face and transform into a chipper, perky version of herself because she was feeling down. This made me realize that people around you can be suffering from depression or other mental diseases around you and you can be completely unaware because the symptoms can be
We learned from the movie to appreciate the simple things in life that we take for granted, from taking a walk by yourself or reading a book or even just brushing your teeth. This movie make us realize that we are very blessed because we had given a chance to enjoy life not like the others who can’t walk by themselves. We really thank God for giving us healthy life because it is one of the most precious gift that we
The film opens with an image of a happy family—however, the camera's zoom out disrupts this imaging, showing it to be nothing more than a performance. The next phase occurs when Hannah and her husband fight off to the side—the new reality showing Hannah oppressed by a verbally abusive and potentially alcoholic husband. The return to the film set creates an entirely new picture—the happy family image is shown to be a thin façade rife with cracks. The final camera movement—a zoom out to reveal that Hannah is in her own house and the film set is in her mind—create a new sense entirely. Hannah's sanity is brought into question—not that her struggles are any less legitimate, but highlighting the psychological toll of trying to morph into an ideal maternal