Drive-Reduction Theory: Long Term Memory

Long Term Memory
Long term memory is an unlimited capacity store that can hold information over lengthy periods of time. In the movie, long term memory was represented as an endless maze that held all of Riley’s memories. At the end of the day, when Riley went to sleep, the emotions would send all the memories created during the day down to long-term memory. The emotions could then recall these memories whenever they needed them by requesting them to be sent up to headquarters.

Drive-Reduction Theory
Drive-Reduction Theory refers to an internal state of tension that motivates an organism to engage in activities that should reduce the tension. In the movie, Rylie was unhappy after her move to San Francisco. This creates an internal state of tension represented by the conflict between Joy and Sadness. To reduce this tension, her unhappiness, the emotions decide to present the idea to run away. In this case they believed that running away back to Minnesota would reduce this internal state of tension and help create new happy memories for Riley.

Insight
Insight is the sudden discovery of the correct solution following incorrect attempts based primarily on
The emotions are happiness, sadness, surprise, fear, disgust, and anger. Out of these six emotions, only five are represented as characters in the movie. Happiness is represented as the character Joy, and then the rest of the characters follow the traditional names of Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger. This therefore leaves surprise out of the main emotions. The characters then take on the attributes of the emotions such as Joy is always happy, Sadness is always sad, Fear is always scared, Disgust is always judging situations, and Anger has a short temper. The emotions then work together to influence Rylie’s actions as well as create new memories where they affect the type of emotion associated with each