Original Verbal Imagery and Its Sense Modality Correlates

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Abstract
77 college adults (33 men and 44 women) were divided into two treatment groups using the two groups randomized posttest only design. Experimentals were asked to rate the vividness of their auditory imagery on a 5 point scale and then instructed to use the auditory sense modality to produce images in response to the sound stimuli of Sounds and Images Form 2A, a measure of verbal originality. Following this training, subjects of both treatment groups were administered Onomatopoeia and Images Form 2A, another measure of verbal originality as the dependent variable. The verbal images produced on Onomatepoeis and Images were scored for (1) originality and (2) use of various sense modalities. The results of (1) showed no significant differences in mean originality scores due to training, sex, or training x sex. The results of (2) showed that there were no significant differences in mean sense modality scores due to training, originality level, training x originality level, and training x originality level x sense modality; however, significant differences in mean scores were found for the use of the several sense modalities (viz., visual, auditory, organic, visual-auditory, other 2 modalities combined, more than 2 modalities combined, and symbolic) and for interaction effects of level x sense modality. Generally it was found that the visual, auditory, visual-auditory, and other two or more than two sense modalities combined were used in the production of verbal images. It was concluded that these results may have positive implications for learning relative to the verbal processes and its physiological correlates; and that some problems in need of study related to other groups of adults and adolescents, and people denied the use of the' sense of sight or hearing.

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