PRINCIPLES OF VISUAL IMAGERY
Finke’s first principle of visual imagery states that “mental imagery is instrumental a retrieving information about the physical properties of objects, or about physical relationships among objects, that was not explicitly encoded at any previous time” (1989, p.7). This principle implies that images are places from which some information can …(ดูไม่ออก) be obtained, even if that information was never intentionally stored. Imagery can thus be used to answer questions for which you probably don’t have a directly stored answer. The task at the beginning of this chapter-you were asked about the number of cabinet doors in the kitchen of your permanent residence- is a case in point. My …(ดูไม่ออก) is that if you are like most people, you’ve never had much reason to count kitchen …(ดูไม่ออก) doors. So this information was probably not represented directly in long-term memory. However, the information was implicitly encoded, meaning it was stored …(ดูไม่ออก) along with other information that allows you to construct a visual image of your kitchen. To answer the question, then, all you need to do is form the visual image, scan it, and count cabinets.