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An experiment to see the effect of imagery on recall
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Unit 3 Psychology Coursework An experiment to see the effect of imagery on recall. Introduction: In cognitive psychology there are many ways in which people can enhance memory - mnemonics. This study is based on how imagery helps memory. Imagery is the use of mental representations of real life objects and action. This only takes place in the mind and is not physically present. There are examples of tests that have taken place to see how effective mnemonics using imagery are: Wollen et al. in 1972 carried out an experiment using paired images and manipulating them to be interacting or not interacting e.g. a cigar on a piano. The images were also presented as bizarre e.g. a cigar smoking from both ends. The independent variables of this experiment were the conditions that the images were in. They were: i) interacting and bizarre ii) interacting but not bizarre iii) not interacting but bizarre,...
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