Visual Imagery and Hypnotic Susceptibility

Wagman, Roger; Stewart, Charles G.

doi:10.2466/pms.1974.38.3.815

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“…Ham, & M.L. ; Sutcliffe, Perry, & Sheehan, 1970;Wagman & Stewart, 1974).4 Gaupp (1975) found that hypnosis used with high susceptible Ss was not effective in enhancing imagery above the level found in a similarly constituted control group. The control Ss in this study, however, were not the usual waking controls; instead, these Ss received a progressive relaxation treatment which could be viewed as a hypnotic induction, Thus, the questions: Is hypnotic induction a critical factor, or is it simply that individuals who respond well to hypnosis are already good at imaging?…”

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Hypnosis and the enhancement of visual imagery

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International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis

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Hypnosis and the enhancement of visual imagery

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International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis

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“…However, it consists of 150 items and is often considered prohibitively long. Wagman and Stewart (1974) found a five-factor structure with single or combined modalities, while Campos and Perez-Fabello (2005) found eight factors in a Spanish translation, six matching modalities from the English original. Richardson (1994, pp.…”

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Assessing vividness of mental imagery: The Plymouth Sensory Imagery Questionnaire

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British J of Psychology

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Mental imagery may occur in any sensory modality, although visual imagery has been most studied. A sensitive measure of the vividness of imagery across a range of modalities is needed: the shorter version of Bett's Questionnaire upon Mental Imagery (Sheehan, , J. Clin. Psychology, 23, 386) uses outdated items and has an unreliable factor structure. We report the development and initial validation of the Plymouth Sensory Imagery Questionnaire (Psi-Q) comprising items for each of the following modalities: Vision, Sound, Smell, Taste, Touch, Bodily Sensation, and Emotional Feeling. An exploratory factor analysis on a 35-item form indicated that these modalities formed separate factors, rather than a single imagery factor, and this was replicated by confirmatory factor analysis. The Psi-Q was validated against the Spontaneous Use of Imagery Scale (Reisberg et al., , Appl. Cogn. Psychology, 17, 147) and Marks' (, J. Mental Imagery, 19, 153) Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire-2 (VVIQ-2). A short 21-item form comprising the best three items from the seven factors correlated with the total score and subscales of the full form, and with the VVIQ-2. Inspection of the data shows that while visual and sound imagery is most often rated as vivid, individuals who rate one modality as strong and the other as weak are not uncommon. Findings are interpreted within a working memory framework and point to the need for further research to identify the specific cognitive processes underlying the vividness of imagery across sensory modalities.

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“…Test-retest reliability for the Sheehan-Betts QMI has been found to be 0.75 for females and 0.72 for males after 2 weeks (Westcott and Rosenstock 1976). Factor analyses of the questionnaire items have revealed the presence of a large unitary factor corresponding to general vividness of imagery and modality specific factors (Sheehan 1967;Wagman and Stewart 1974;White et al 1974).…”

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