Visual Imagery Examples Psychology. When you re writing a scene whether you re describing a person place or thing it s best to show instead of tell. People learning stress management techniques are often encouraged to use visual imagery to take a mental vacation out of a stressful situation for example.
For example when he walked into her kitchen he was assaulted by the scents of raspberry and caramel. Visual imagery allows us to see in the absence of visual stimuli. The moonlight shone over the lake and reflected.
People may be guided through visualizations as part of the therapeutic process when they process trauma or deal with other issues.
Visual working memory provides an essential link between past and future events. Kosslyn s 1994 influential model of imagery and visual processing captures this idea with imagery and perception both activating a visual buffer from either sensory systems perception or associative memory imagery. The words dark and dim are visual images. As we now know it evokes vivid images of the characters and scenery.