CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Scapegoating, Counterfactual Conditional, Hallucination
8 Oct 2018
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Imagining the future: future imaginings have less detail, and are more prototypical (ex. assume birthday party will have cake and balloons, more details when thinking about the past, even if not experienced. Impact bias: we think that future emotional reactions (good or bad) will be stronger than they really will be. This is true even for imagined past events! Imagine the steps to achieve a goal, not the achievement of it. Mental imagery: aphantasics have no conscious experience of sensory imagination. Imagination has more activation in the frontal areas associated with executive control. It depends on whether you feel a part of the imagined situation, or contrast your life with it (ex. could make you feel worse if someone with same job and age died). Imagination as mental training: people who imagined putting the ball in the hole putted 30. 4% better.
