AP Psychology | Inside Out
Name: _________________________________________
Directions: As you watch the Inside Out… 1) define the term and 2) explain how the movie accounts for this term, and 3)
explain why this is an accurate or inaccurate representation of the term.
Unit 10: Trait
Define:
A characteristic pattern of behavior or disposition to feel and act, as assessed by self-report inventories/peer reports
Movie Interpretation:
The film uses the trait perspective to explain Riley’s personality. Each island represents a core aspect of her
personality. Hockey Island most likely represents all the lessons she has learned through playing her favorite sport.
Goofball and Honesty Island represent overwhelming characteristics of her innate behavior. Lastly, Friendship and
Family Islands - like Hockey Island - likely represent the values she has learned from her family and friends. It is
those values and relationships she has with her friends and family that constitute her identity.
Application:
According to the trait perspective, one would need to define personality in terms of observable behavior patterns that is, describing an individual’s traits instead of explaining them. In other words, Riley’s emotions in her head
explain her personality based off of Riley’s experiences as opposed to a traumatic, hidden unconscious. It is Riley’s
experience throughout life, as witnessed and narrated by her emotions that her personality islands form.
Unit 5: Manifest Content
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Unit 5: Latent Content
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Unit 7: Long-term Memory
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Unit 7: Recall
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Unit 7: Insight
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Unit 7: Mood-congruent Memory
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Unit 7: Storage Decay
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Unit 7: Flashbulb Memory
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Unit 9: Infantile Amnesia
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Unit 9: Authoritative Parenting Style vs. Authoritarian Parenting Style
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Unit 9: Erikson’s Stages of Psychosocial Development, Adolescence
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