PSYC 3350 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Direct And Indirect Realism, Visual Cortex, Episodic Memory

• School: University of Houston
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3350
• Professor: Jill Anderson

Document Summary

Imagery and episodic memories (memories of experiences) are closely connected. Imagery can be created without having a memory of the experience: you can create images by using the knowledge you have and your reasoning abilities to make a good guess about what the experience might be like. Images play a role in many episodic memories we recall from events we have experienced in our lives. Images can aid memory compared with other forms of information. The concreteness effect: concreteness effect: concrete objects are better remembered than abstract ones, paivio: dual-coding theory: some words may be imagined during encoding or retrieval, with more concrete objects imagined than abstract items. Images are used to connect the pegwords that indicate order of the list with the items you wish to remember: the creation of images, especially bizarre ones, can help you more easily remember things.