4 MEASURES OF VISUAL IMAGINATION

The present investigation examined intercorrelations among four measures thought to be related to an individual's ability to imagine visual scenes. The measures included Self-Rating of ability to imagine visual scenes, improvement in paired associate learning when instructed to use visual images as mnemonic aids (Recall Improvement), respiratory changes associated with the imagining of fearful scenes, and a test involving memory for the location of objects in a picture (Picture Memory). Significant correlations were obtained between Self-Rating and respiratory change, Picture Memory and respiratory change, and Picture Memory and Recall Improvement. The value of Self-Rating and Picture Memory as prognostic devices for desensitization was discussed, and it was concluded that Picture Memory may prove to be the superior of the two. © 1969.