Inside Out 2

Riley's Sense of Self undergoes change as new emotions, such as Anxiety, reshape how she sees herself. Which cognitive process best explains how Riley updates her self-perception based on new experiences?

• Assimilation – Riley integrates new experiences into her existing self-schema.

• Accommodation – Riley modifies her self-schema to fit new experiences.

• Priming – Riley’s behavior is influenced by unconscious emotional cues.

• Flashbulb Memory – Riley vividly remembers key emotional moments.

Anxiety urges Riley to focus on impressing Val rather than staying true to her friends. This inner conflict represents which aspect of cognitive decision-making?

• System 1 thinking – Fast, emotional, and automatic responses guide Riley’s choices.

• System 2 thinking – Logical reasoning and deliberate thought shape Riley’s actions.

• Episodic memory – Riley recalls past events to guide her social interactions.

• Working memory – Riley balances multiple cognitive demands while making decisions.

Joy tries to suppress negative memories to keep Riley happy, but they later resurface, influencing her emotions and decisions. This aligns with which cognitive process?

• Reconstructive memory – Riley’s memories are altered by emotional influence.

• Serial position effect – Riley recalls the most recent (recency) and first (primacy) memories best.

• Interference theory – New emotions overwrite older memories, affecting retrieval.

• Cognitive load theory – Too many emotional inputs overwhelm Riley’s working memory.

Riley struggles to recall a happy memory from her childhood. Which cognitive process is most directly related to this difficulty?

• Encoding

• Retrieval

• Chunking

• Priming

Riley's emotions work together to solve a problem. This collaboration can be best explained by which cognitive model?

• Multi-store model of memory

• Working memory model

• Schema theory

• Dual-process model

Anxiety convinces Riley that she must impress Val or she will fail socially. Riley then starts interpreting every interaction as a sign of success or failure. Which cognitive bias does this demonstrate?

• Confirmation bias – Riley focuses only on information that supports her fear of social rejection.

• Availability heuristic – Riley assumes that one negative interaction means future rejection.

• Optimism bias – Riley believes everything will go well despite challenges.

• Anchoring bias – Riley bases her self-worth on one early impression from Val.

Riley’s new self-concept is shaped by distorted memories, where she misremembers past interactions based on her current fears. This best illustrates:

• The misinformation effect – External influences distort Riley’s memories.

• Mood-congruent memory – Riley’s current emotions shape how she remembers past events.

• The peak-end rule – Riley only remembers the most intense emotional moments.

• State-dependent memory – Riley recalls memories best when in the same emotional state.

Joy attempts to keep Riley happy by discarding negative memories. However, some of these memories resurface later, influencing Riley’s decisions. According to the Multi-Store Memory Model, what process best explains how these memories were initially transferred into Riley’s long-term memory?

• Attention – Memories were encoded into long-term memory after being consciously focused on.

• Rehearsal – Repeated exposure to these memories strengthened their storage.

• Chunking – The memories were grouped with similar ones for easier recall.

• Displacement – Old memories were replaced by new ones in short-term memory.

At the hockey camp, Riley struggles to balance multiple thoughts—fitting in with Val, performing well, and handling Anxiety’s influence. According to Baddeley and Hitch’s Working Memory Model, which component is most responsible for juggling these different cognitive tasks?

• Phonological Loop – Managing verbal interactions and conversations.

• Visuospatial Sketchpad – Keeping track of movements on the ice rink.

• Episodic Buffer – Integrating past experiences with current emotions.

• Central Executive – Allocating attention and managing multiple cognitive demands.

At the end of Inside Out 2, Riley experiences a powerful emotional moment where she redefines her Sense of Self. According to Flashbulb Memory Theory, what would make this memory more vivid and long-lasting?

• The event is personally significant and highly emotional.

• Riley rehearses the memory repeatedly.

• The event involves procedural learning, like ice skating.

• The memory is encoded through System 2 thinking.