CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Frontal Lobe, Counterfactual Conditional, Grip Strength
8 Nov 2017
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What is imagination: creativity or sensory generated information (not based on external info) From memory (people who have trouble remembering = trouble imagining) Impact bias: think emotional reactions in future will be stronger (overestimate) Imagining steps to achieve goal is not true. Imagination - generation of stuff: aphantasics - can"t imagine things (no conscious experience of sensory imagination, mental image - sensory experience, conceptual imagination - not a mental image, but still an imagination of idea. Evidence that long term memories are not pictures: degraded memories are not blurred (memories are symbolic belief structures, retrieve based on word queries, e. x. Attack formation (abstract idea represented in many different ways but stored as attack formation) in chess. How hallucinations differ from imagination: hallucinations are involuntary beliefs projected on real world (e. x. Schizophrenia and hallucinations: hear hallucinatory voices (can be negative, 1/3 of people hear voices and don"t have schizophrenia. Lsd, weed - multi sensory and pleasant - sometimes believable - delusions.
