AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Imagery strategies involve activating the memory by taking what is to be learned and creating meaningful visual, auditory, or kinesthetic images of the information.

Detailed explanation-2: -We use the term ‘mental imagery’ to refer to representations and the accompanying experience of sensory information without a direct external stimulus. Such representations are recalled from memory and lead one to re-experience a version of the original stimulus or some novel combination of stimuli.

Detailed explanation-3: -At the foundation of the effectiveness of mental imagery to improve memory for words is the picture superiority effect. This effect is a consistent empirical finding showing that stimuli presented as pictures are better remembered than stimuli presented as words17.

Detailed explanation-4: -Therefore, from a generic point of view, mental imagery can be considered as a cognitive process that represents reality through multisensory mental images, or mental representations of perceived or remembered objects.