PSYC 336 Lecture 11: 11.11 - Visual Knowledge XI
8 Dec 2020
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Memory can be aided by the use of imagery mnemonics. Mnemonics are helpful only if they show the objects to be remembered interacting in some way. One study participants were asked to learn pairs of words. Some asked to silently rehearse, make a sentence. Still did worse than the group who was asked to use mental imagery. Imagery can also help you memorize materials concerned with issues of timing and sequence. Could imagine them arranged in a line. Past events to the left, future events to the right. Examined patients with neglect syndrome overlooked stimuli on their left. Had a harder time remembering past facts and an easier time remembering future facts. Seem to neglect the left side of time. A theory that imageable materials will be doubly represented in memory: the word and the corresponding picture will be remembered. Both the verbal and the image will provide the information you seek when it"s time to retrieve these memories.
