Inside Out is an entertaining movie that portrays the method a child processes emotions and experiences the world through whimsical characters. The movie portrayed several aspects of neuroscience structures and systems accurately, however, I will also point out some aspects of memory systems that are slightly incorrect. In the movie, the main character Riley has a main headquarters for her thoughts and emotions. These emotion characters interpret events for her and help guide her behavior. The main headquarters are a visual metaphor for the amygdala that helps us interpret events and attach emotion to memories and experiences (Morawetz, Alexandrowicz, & Heekeren, 2017). The hippocampus is represented by the memory bank that they “flush” …show more content…
The prefrontal cortex is involved in complex decision making, impulse suppression, and future planning (Dixon, Thiruchselvam, Todd, & Christoff, 2017). The prefrontal cortex is heavily involved with complex thoughts that have an impact on behavior. Thoughts help us to mediate emotions which, in turn, shape our external behavior. Thoughts, emotions, and behaviors compromise what is known as the “cognitive triangle” (Saavedra, Silverman, Morgan-Lopez, & Kurtines, 2010). Riley is young so her prefrontal cortex isn’t fully developed. However, even at her age she would still be able perform some sort of emotion regulation and future planning. The movie does not portray this correct as she does not show any behavior inhibition. If her father angers her, she feels angry, she then immediately lashes out at him. Instead of Riley incorporating complex reasoning into her behaviors, her behaviors are a direct result of her emotions. In a real scenario, she would probably think of the consequences of yelling at her father or ponder “what good could come of this?” …show more content…
“Procedural memory represents our knowledge of how to perform a complex activity” (Seamon, 2015). Procedural memories may be demonstrated through complex activities such as riding a bike or, in Riley’s case, play hockey. Procedural memories are built through extensive practice and once they are established they can last a lifetime (Seamon, 2015). Riley possesses episodic memories of playing hockey earlier in life and has built up skills that make her an effective player. The movie renders her failing to score a goal because her episodic memory of hockey skill couldn’t be accessed correctly. If she built up the skill to play hockey well, then she would still be able to play well as procedural memory remains intact even when episodic memory is damaged (Wilson et al., 2011). Her depressive symptoms may provide an alternative view for her troubles with hockey. Joy and sadness left her when she moved to San Francisco and she became somber. Anhedonia is a symptom of a depressive episode in which one does experience pleasure in previously enjoyed activities (Bennik, Nederhof, Ormel, & Oldehinkel, 2013). If Riley is going through a depressive episode, then she may experience psychomotor retardation as a physical symptom. Psychomotor retardation is a cardinal feature of major depression and is marked by motor slowing as well as reductions in physical activity level
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Major depressive disorder is a mood disorder characterized by the DSM-5 of depressed mood and markedly diminished interest or pleasure in nearly all activities occurring nearly every day, for most of the day, as indicated by a subjective self-report or an observational report from others. Individuals who have depression also tend to experience significant weight loss, insomnia or hypersomnia, psychomotor agitation, fatigue and loss of energy, feelings of worthlessness or excessive guilt, diminished ability to concentrate, and recurrent thoughts of death. Most people who suffer from depression usually experience major depressive episodes in unipolar major depression, while some others experience both depressive and manic episodes in bipolar
14, 2002). Riley is currently experiencing physical changes in her body such as developing breast, getting her period, and hormonal fluctuations. Along with these other changes, her prefrontal cortex is still developing. The prefrontal cortex is responsible for decision-making, planning, and impulse control (Micucci, 2012). “The physical changes associated with puberty, in themselves, have little negative impact on the adolescent’s self-image, except in one instance: when adolescents are going through puberty around the same time they are experiencing other changes in life, such as changing schools”(Micucci, p. 18,
Depression is a mood disorder that causes a persistent feeling of sadness and loss of interest (ManiMala, 2016), which can negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you act. Depression causes feelings of sadness and/or a loss of interest in activities once enjoyed, which can lead to emotional and physical problems and can decrease a person’s ability to function at work and at home (Parekh, 2015). The symptoms of depression can range from mild to severe and include: feeling sad or having a depressed mood, loss of interest or pleasure in activities once enjoyed, changes in appetite trouble sleeping or sleeping too much, loss of energy or increased fatigue, increase in restless activity, feeling worthless or guilty, difficulty thinking, concentrating or making decisions and thoughts of death or suicide (Weis,
In the movie The Breakfast Club, parents vs teens, drug abuse, and sexuality all play a role. The five main characters in the movie all of some issue or conflicts at home with their parents. Drug abuse takes part in the movie from hiding marijuana in lockers and getting high. Throughout the movie sexuality takes a role by the characters talking about sex and making girls feeling insecure. The Breakfast Club represents multiple adolescence development stages throughout the movie to show what situations were like in that time period.
Depression supplies a distinct depiction of the brain equals behavior theory. The physiological characteristics that taint the diseased brain directly impact the thoughts and behaviors of the millions of sufferers. The genesis of this dehabilitating problem is both mysterious and complicated and I am not offering any sort of revelation in stating that it is a multi-factorial manifestation involving both biological and environmental components. The end product of these variable factors do, however, provide some common biochemical alterations in the brain that lend insight into understanding the reality and possible treatment of the disease.
Memory is the process of retaining information over a period of time, such as life. The movie Inside Out gives a great visual representation of how our memory works and how important it is. The movie is based on a young girl named Riley that gets over life’s toughest obstacles with the help of her emotions; joy, sadness, disgust, fear, and anger. These emotions represent her inner thoughts and the voice that we all hear in our head, which is our inner speech. As she, Riley, encounters obstacles her emotions are left with the decision on how to react to the situation at hand.
“In depressive disorders, sadness and despondency are exaggerated, prolonged, or unreasonable. Signs of a depressive disorder are dejection, hopelessness, and an inability to feel pleasure or to take interest in anything. Other common symptoms are fatigue,...
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.
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.
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
Psychology is the investigation of the mind and how it processes and directs our thoughts, actions and conceptions. However, in 1879 Wilhelm Wundt opened the first psychology laboratory at the University of Leipzig in Germany. Nevertheless, the origins of psychology go all the way back thousands of years starting with the early Greeks. This foundation is closely connected to biology and philosophy; and especially the subfields of physiology which is the study of the roles of living things and epistemology, which is the study of comprehension and how we understand what we have learned. The connection to physiology and epistemology is often viewed as psychology, which is the hybrid offspring of those two fields of investigation.
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Cite: Dr. Eric Kendel in States of Mind, Columbia professor and director of Columbia's Center for Neurobiology and Behavior
The Science of Psychology “Psychology is the scientific study of mind, brain and behaviour. Some of what you do learn may seem like ‘common sense’, or at least familiar to you because you are learning about topics in which you can relate to. However some things you may believe is true, but is incorrect. The way we know this is through the application of scientific methods.” Mark Leary suggests that the subject matter of psychology is much more familiar to most people than is the subject matter of physics or biology; we see behaviour all around us.