PS260 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Autobiographical Memory, Long-Term Memory, Descriptive Knowledge
Document Summary
The rst systematic research was done by francis galton in the 1800s. Blood" - retrieve from memory and describe it. Some people are visualizers" and others are not. Some people are incapable of forming visual images. Translation step" - when people translate their subjective experience into a verbal report. Uses response time to measure visual imagery. Allows us to ask what sorts of information are prominent in a mental image and what sorts are not. Participants were asked to form a series of mental images and asked to answer yes/no questions about each. Asked to memorize map and then imagine a line going from one point to another and when they were done they had to press a button stopping a clock. Images are not stored as pictures, they are stored as whole images. Asked to form a speci c mental image and asked to scan with their minds eye" from one point to another.
