PSYCH207 Lecture Notes - Hemispatial Neglect, Occipital Lobe, Demand Characteristics
22 Mar 2013
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Chapter 8 visual imagery and spatial recognition. Visual imagery the possibility that imagery is a vial code that we use in long term memory. It is possible that the ways we store memory in long term memory is in terms of visual code. Mental rotation and scanning images what we"re doing in our minds is what we"ll do in the object itself. Visual imagery and memory: mnemonics - memory aid. It helps you to put down information and retrieve it later on. e. g. writing down, chunking (chunking is an indication that long term and short term are interacting) Various techniques used to increase chances of remembering. *method of loci involved a well-established set of locations to help you remember something. * imagine a series of places that have a specific order to them. * imagine the items that you have to remember in those locations.
