CGSC 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 57: Counterfactual Conditional, Scapegoating, Coffee Table
12 Oct 2017
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Imagination: creativity in general, sensory-like experiences based on internal rather than external information, used to distinguished from perception. Frequency: on average, people think about the future every 16 minutes. Memory to make imaginations: people who have alzheimer"s also imagining the future, same brain areas are active for both tasks. Imagining the future: future imaginings have less detail, more prototypical. Impact bias: we think future emotional reactions will be stronger that they will be. Imagine steps to achieve a goal, not the achievement of it. Sensory imagination: visual (see, auditory (hear, olfactory/gustatory (smell, haptic (touch, emotional, enteric/sexual/hunger, motor/kinesthetic. Imaginations vs mental imagery: aphantastics claim to have no sensory imagination, dreaming about somebody who looks like someone else but you know its your mother. Mental imagery is final optional stage of imagination. Imagine a living room: pull things from memory that belong in a living room, coffee table, sofa, tv, cushions, mental image.
