PSY 324 - Unit 10 - Memory Systems - Visual Memory

Exam 2 - Spring 2025

analog representations

visual mimicry; mental image is more literal; when you recall something you’re recreating the image in your head 

dual-coding hypothesis

suggests we have an advantage for visual memory; for visual information we can do both analog and propositional representations; for non visual information you lose analog representation

facial recognition

we are really good at recognizing facial details, better than other types of images 

mental rotation

provides evidence that we have visual mental representations in our heads of things 

picture superiority effect

we remember images better than non images; we have access to more tools with our visual memory than others (analog and propositional representations)

propositional representations

abstract relationships; if you try to remember a map of the state of arizona, you’ll see parts of it not an actual representation (seeing phoenix and tucson and relating them, not seeing an actual map)

selective inference

imagined stimuli interferes with perception of the actual stimuli; visual interferes with visual, auditory interferes with auditory, they do not interfere with each other (visual doesn’t interfere with auditory, auditory doesn’t interfere with visual)