Ah! Thanks for the citation related to the VVIQ, Mike. I understand that o ne issue with that measure is that it has some difficulty identifying individual with poor imagery . That the VVIQ correlates with social desirability may, in part, explain that difficulty.
Miguel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Palij" <[email protected]> To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <[email protected]> Cc: "Michael Palij" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2012 7:31:38 PM Subject: Re: [tips] Looking for an imagery test On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:47:23 -0700, Miguel Roig wrote: >Thanks, Mike. We had actually thought of the Flags Test. However, that one >seems to be more a test of spatial ability than of mental imagery. Besides, >the >Flags Test does not really tap 'clarity' of imagery, though I am not certain >that there is a task-based test that does. The Vividness of Visual Imagery >Questionnare is a good one, but we are looking for an alternate one. Whether the Flags test is a measure of visual imagery or spatial ability or both depends upon one's theoretical orientation. Roger Shepard used the original version as a basis for his mental rotation studies which helped to provide a significant degree of scientific legitimacy to studies of imagery. However, in extensions of Baddeley's working memory model, the visual-spatial sketchpad is seen as one way to represent visual-spatial information while others have argued for a separate spatial working memory that does not require visual information (e.g., representation of the location of objects in an environment based on other cues, such a sound localization). I've looked at some of the literature on the VVIQ and though there appears to be some problems with it (for example, see: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21494918 ) there is a recent publication on the psychometric properties of a revised version of the VVIQ; see: http://www.amsciepub.com/doi/abs/10.2466/04.22.PMS.113.5.454-460 On a side note, though I can understand the historical interest in imagery vividness it is my impression that this is less of an issue in contemporary cognitive psychology (i.e., work of Shepard, Kosslyn, Paivio, etc.). Ron Finke examined some of these issues in his research which he describes in a 1990 Scientific American article; see: http://sonify.psych.gatech.edu/~walkerb/classes/perception/readings/Finke1990.pdf -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=466839.0421d1005414eed82340aa280e7ce629&n=T&l=tips&o=20320 or send a blank email to leave-20320-466839.0421d1005414eed82340aa280e7ce...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=20331 or send a blank email to leave-20331-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
