The role of visual imagery in desensitization
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A measure of visual imagery ability was obtained for 33 females who had participated in desensitization therapy for snake phobia and it was hypothesized that the fear of good imager tends to be based on imagination while that of poor imagers tends to been based on sensory experience.
Abstract
A measure of visual imagery ability was obtained for 33 females who had participated in desensitization therapy for snake phobia. Visual imagery was positively related to pretherapy performance (closeness of approach to a live snake), but not to improvement. On the basis of these results and the results of two other studies, it was hypothesized that the fear of good imagers tends to be based on imagination while that of poor imagers tends to be based on sensory experience.