PSYC 336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Visual Memory

• School: University of San Diego
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 336
• Professor: Appleton-Knapp

Document Summary

Visual memory is heavily influenced by schema-base, generic knowledge. Memories are influenced by their broader knowledge of what should be included in these scenes. Always noticed changes to the unexpected objects in the scene. Took twice as long at the unexpected objects as they did at the expected ones. Boundary extension a tendency for people to remember pictures as being less zoomed in (having wider boundaries) than they actually were. People remember a picture as including more than it actually did. Extending the boundaries of the remembered depiction. People understand a picture by means of a perceptual schema. Places the picture in a larger context, informing the perceiver about the real-world scene only partially revealed by the picture. Leads people to a series of expectations about what they might see if they could somehow look beyond the picture"s edges. These expectations become part of the experience of viewing the picture.