Photographic Memory
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- Created on: 12-12-14 16:39
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- Photographic Memory
- Evidence FOR it's existence
- Exceptional Individuals
- Kim Peek
- 1) An autistic savant that could read a page of text in 10 seconds
- 2) He was rumored to be able to recall some 12000 books
- 3) He didn't fully understand the texts, but could recall them at a shallow level
- Stephen Wiltshire
- 1) Is an Autistic Savant famous for taking helicopter rides and then reproducing what he saw on a canvas
- 3) However, recent criticism has suggested that his drawings, whilst incredibly detailed, are not completely accurate
- 2) Is able to reproduce as much as 300 square miles of a city onto canvas after one ride. London, Tokyo, Manhattan
- Elizabeth Stromeyer
- 1) Rumoured to be able to reproduce images onto canvas after seeing them only briefly
- 2) And to be able to recall poems in foreign languages years after seeing them
- 3) Stromeyer (1970) carried out the dot test on her
- 4) But it was never replicated by another psychologist and they later got married.
- Kim Peek
- Exceptional Individuals
- Evidence AGAINST it's existence
- Chess
- De Groot (1965)
- 1) He thought that chess masters may have photographic memories as they play so fast
- 2) He flashed 10 chess board arrangements at chess masters and found that they could recreate the arrangements accurately
- 3) But this only worked with legal chess set-ups, random ones results in the masters recalling only as much as regular people
- Chess
- What is it?
- Popularised in much of fiction to be the ability to instantly remember a large amount of information in whatever form it may be in.
- Eidetic Memory
- What is it?
- Defined as the ability to retain an accurate, detailed image of a complex scene or pattern
- Evidence FOR it's existence
- A) Crowder (1992)
- A1) He found that this ability existed in 8% of pre-adolescent children
- B) Haber et al (1969(
- B1) Briefly showed children slides of complex scenes for 30 seconds before asking the children to describe it
- B2) Children between 6-8 could accurately describe the scenes
- B3) this is curious as they would not have developed memory strategies such as chunking as adults have
- What is it?
- Evidence FOR it's existence
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