Psychology 2135A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Autobiographical Memory, Ambiguous Image, Eidetic Memory

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2135A/B
• Professor: Eriko Matsuki

Document Summary

Visual imagery: the mind"s eye, common, everyday use of visual images, basis for making decisions as an aid to remember. Introspections about images: francis galton 1800s, asked various people to introspect and report back mental contents. Self-report data: they would inspect a picture, viewing from certain position and certain distance, could read off image details of colour and texture. Image-scanning procedure: asked participants to memorize fictional map, asked to imagine black speck moving from one landmark to another and measured time, response time closely related to distance scanned across image. Same result when asked to zoom in or zoom out of picture: depictions versus descriptions. Interactions between imagery and perception: visual signal vs auditory signal, visualizing vs auditory image. Infer that if participants try to do both at once (imaging and perceiving), one would be occupied and the other would not be available. Spatial images and visual images: studies of blind people and imagery.