Inside Out Psychology

The movie “Inside Out” is about and eleven year-old girl named Riley who loves to play hockey. Riley’s headquarters, also known as the part of the brain that controls her emotions, is managed by her emotions, Joy, Sadness, Anger, Disgust, and Fear. Her life was perfect until her dad announced that they had to move to San Francisco for his new job. When Riley sees her new house for the first time she tries to stay positive but, Sadness touches a core memory that controls her personalities. This causes chaos at headquarters when Joy tries to get rid of the sad core memory, but ends up getting sucked into a tube and thrown into the long-term memory section of Riley's brain along with Sadness. This leaves Disgust, Anger, and Fear in control. After this, Riley no longer wants to play hockey, gets angry with her parents and is negative about everything most of the time. From there, Joy and Sadness have to find their way back to headquarters, keep all
Towards the end of the day, when Riley goes to sleep, all the memories that she made throughout the day are sent to long-term memory. When a memory is created, it has only one emotion that goes with it, but in real life emotions are often separated from their causes. For example, in the movie Riley's mom tells her to put on a smile while they get through the tough time but inside Riley was actually feeling sad and not like herself. Joy is constantly trying to repress Sadness because she wants Riley to be happy so she is always in control but at the end we learn that it is okay to feel sad, and Riley needed to be allowed to be sad. In parts of the movie we can see inside Riley’s mom and dad’s headquarters, which is far more complex than Riley's. At the end of the movie Riley too upgrades to a more complex system because she moves on to adolescence. Her emotion control her equally not just Joy and many of her memories have more than one emotion that goes with