Chris,

I am very interested to see any responses your question generates as
I've been working on these problems as well. Although not directly
germane to your challenge, I would encourage you to look over the
following two articles:

Dadds, M., Bovbjerg, D., Redd,W., and Cutmore, T. (1997). Imagery in
human classical conditioning. Psychological Bulletin, 122, 89-103.

Roure, R., Collet, C., Deschaumes-Molinaro, C., Delhomme, G., Dittmar,
A., and Vernet-Maury, E. (1999). Imagery quality estimated by autonomic
response is correlated to sporting performance enhancement. Physiology
& Behavior, 66, 63-72.

The first is a review article from a behavioral perspective, and the
second focuses on physiological correlates but makes the point that
there are indirect mechanisms by which private behavior following
instructions to perform imagery might be assessed. Good luck with your
work. If it is not inconvenient, I would greatly appreaciate sharing
any references you are able to uncover. I believe there is tremendous
opportunity for behavior analysis to address these thorny measurement
issues and lead other scientists in making the visible the invisible.

Best,

Michael


Michael A. Kirkpatrick, Ph.D., BCBA
Associate Professor of Psychology
Wesley College
120 N. State Street
Dover, DE 19901-3875

E-mail: Kirkpami@...
Phone: (302) 736-2457

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Subject: [B-fit] measurement of inners

As part of my phd I'm using self-talk and visualization in an attempt to
improve performance on set tasks. This leads to the problem of
measurement with these inner behaviours. I was wondering if anyone knew
of any research that might preove useful in helping me explain these
techniques and their measurement from a more behaviourla standpoint?