Effort and experience on the Creative Imagination Scale.

Abstract

Abstract 158 Ss were adminstered the Creative Imagination Scale (CIS) of Barber and Wilson (1977) and were asked to rate the degree of etfort that they expended in attempting to experience the suggested effects; Ss also routinely rated their experiences of the test items. Results were analyzed to assess the relationship between the ratings of effort and exprrience on the test items. The data were further analyzed in terms of Ss' CIS total experience score and the average item-effort expended during testing. Results indicated that Ss who experienced the items reported expending more effort than those Ss who did not experience the items on some, but not all, of the items. For Ss who experienced the items, increased vividness of effect was not assoeiated with increased effort; correlational analysis indicated no significant relationship between effort and experience. Ss of varying CIS reslionsivity also did not differ in the degree of average item-effort they reported expending. Implications of the data are ...