PSYC 336 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Leva Bates

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

Document Summary

Various practical problems seem to evoke images. Common, everyday use of visual images basis for making decision aid to remembering. First systematic research the late 1800s, francis galton. Interested in how people differ from one another. Asked various people simply to describe their images and rate them for vividness. Asked to introspect and report their own mental contents. Self-report data a form of evidence in which the person is asked directly about their own thoughts or experiences. May reported that they could inspect their images like a picture. Implies a mode of representation (picture-like) that"s consistent with our informal manner of describing mental images as pictures in the head . Differed widely from one another in their self-reports. Some = photographic clarity, rich in detail. Some = sketchy images or no images at all. No sense were they seeing these scenes. People differ enormously in their imagery. Some are visualizers, and others are not.