Date of Award
1980
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Department
Psychology
Abstract
1361 Ss of ages 8-45 were told that they were to be tested for creative imagination, and were then given the Creative Imagination Scale (CIS), which contains 10 test-suggestions that ask subjects to imagine various sensations and states of awareness: for example, that an arm is light, their hand is becoming warm from the sun, they are eating a delicious orange, they feel that time is slowing down, and they are reexperiencing themselves back in first grade in elementary school. Following administration of the Self-Scoring Form of the CIS, the Inventory of Childhood Memories and Imaginings for Children (ICMIC), a pencil-paper questionnaire, was given. The major purpose of the ICMIC was to find out to what extent subjects remember how they played and imagined during childhood and how their present interests relate to their childhood interests. This paper presents norms for both scales and data pertaining to their reliability, which was satisfactory. In addition, the two scales were compared to investigate the relationship between responsiveness to suggestions on the CIS and the subject's life history of imagining and fantasizing (ICMIC). Finally, responsiveness in children was compared to responsiveness in adults.
Recommended Citation
Myers, Susan A., "The Creative Imagination Scale and The Inventory of Childhood Memories and Imaginings for Children: A Normative Study and Comparison" (1980). Theses. 1116.
https://digitalcommons.lindenwood.edu/theses/1116
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