title: A measure of visual imaging capacity: a preliminary study.
abstract: The capacity to form images is generally measured by means of questionnaires based on self-evaluation, despite the limitations of this approach. Here we describe a new performance-based test, the Vividness of Visual Imagery Test, designed for assessing imaging capacity of adults. There are 21 items, each of which requires the subject first to visualize a certain object, then to choose between a correct and an incorrect description of that object. For 351 university students Cronbach alpha was .58 and validity of the test also requires further work.
authors.affiliation: University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
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authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Campos
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001077:Aptitude Tests / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014796:Visual Perception