What is a photographic memory?

Answer 1

That is when people are able to remember things as an image that they can see - for example, my Grandfather had a photographic memory, and he could remember exactly where things were because he could 'see' it in the drawer etc.

Answer 2

Um, well, i'm sure that u already knoe that photographic memory is when someone can remember things with exact precision. But, I think photographic memory is impossible unless its a really really important memory. Like, my favorite uncle died, and i have no pictures of him, and nobody else does either becuase he never liked having his photos taken. But, I can still remember exactly how his face looked after all these years, because its important to me that I don't forget.

Answer 3

Something I wish I had... I believe it's when people can remember things after only seeing them once, like they've taken a 'photograph' of it with their mind's eye. In college I had a friend who only had to glance at a page of text to remember it exactly. He memorized book upon book this way, which came in handy in exams. He was a bit odd, but I guess that's the price you pay for being a genius! True photographic memory is rare, and I think it's often a side-effect of conditions like autism.

Answer 4

Scientists who study memory phenomena generally believe that eidetic
memory (more popularly known as "photographic memory") does not exist.
Early experiements on eidetic memory were intriguing, but could not be
replicated.

People do show extraordinary memory performance in certain
circumstances. For example, expert chess players can typically play
blindfolded chess against several opponents at the same time, easily
memorizing many chessboard configurations. Others use special tricks
to memorize long lists of randomly selected numbers.

Impressive as these feats are, scientists attribute them to
specialized ways of thinking about the information, not to any kind of
enhanced visual memory. One interesting experiment that makes this
point was performed by a cognitive psychologist named DeGroot.

Expert chess players were shown a chess board with pieces on it for a
brief period, such as 15 seconds, and then asked to reconstruct what
they had seen on a new chess board. That is, they were asked to place
chess pieces in the same positions as they had appeared on the board
they'd been shown. The expert players were very good at this, much
better than novice players. One hypothesis was that the experts had
developed an enhanced ability to memorize visual information.

In the next experiment, the expert chess players were asked to do the
very same thing; butt this time, they were shown boards whose pieces
were arranged in ways that would never actually occur in a game of
chess. Not only did their ability to remember the positions go down,
but it went down all the way to the level of the novice players. We
can conclude that the original, enhanced performance at remembering
chess positions came from the experts' ability to mentally organize
the information they had observed, not from any ability to
"photograph" the visual scene.

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Answer 5

It is when a person has the ability to remember facts easily, perhaps from only seeing them or being told them once. When you take a picture with your camera once you click the button, you get the entire image that you photographed in an instant. Some people can look at a scene for just a few minutes and remember every little detail of what they saw, whilst other people would struggle to remember just one detail of it.

Answer 6

When you remember EVERYTHING from sights, to sounds, your can always picture every detail. EXAMPLE: Open up a text book and read some pages ppl with p. memory could recall nearly every detail, someone at a conference speaks about planets, some ppl could hear in there minds what they said aftewards. its not just being able to remember stuff well its about remember everysingle little detail in your mind something VERY VERY few of us can do.

Answer 7

Its when you remeber things as pictures in your brain, I have it and its really handy when im in exams cos all i have to do is remeber the page with the right information in it and im there :D, the bad thing is sometimes bits are missing from the picture like when a photo is burned, or sometimes i cant make out the writing because its too fuzzy

Answer 8

photographic memory, or total recall, is the ability to recall images, sounds, or objects in memory with great accuracy and in seemingly unlimited volume.

Answer 9

Many people claim to have it, but the real thing is when you can glimpse at a page and then read it from your memory.

Answer 10

its when you remember things as if you have used a video camera,you can see all the details in your mind.