Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire 2 - VVIQ2

Technical Manual

Script Author of original Inquisit VVIQ script: Adnan Niazi (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour,
Radboud University Nijmegen)
The VVIQ2 script builds on the original Inquisit VVIQ.script.

Last Modified: January 31, 2023 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com), Millisecond

Script Copyright © Millisecond Software, LLC

Background

This script implements the VVIQ 2 by

Marks, D.F. (1995). New Directions for Imagery Research. Journal of Mental Imagery, 19, 153-167.

Duration

6 minutes

Overview

participants rate with eyes closed the vividness of
32 imagined scenes on a 5-point scale (a glider is used in this script).
(8 scenes with 4 questions each)
Each response receives 1 (lowest vividness) to 5 (highest vividness) points.

( the VVIQ2 questionnaire reverses the scales compared to the VVIQ questionnaire)

Max combined score = 5*32 = 160 (high vividness)
Min combined score = 1*32 = 32 (low vividness)

Instructions

The htm instruction pages are provided by Millisecond (build on the instructions by Niazi).
They were written to closely resemble the original instructions for the VVIQ
(at: https://web.archive.org/web/20080615154210/https://www.staff.city.ac.uk/d.marks/vviq.htm)
while adapting them to the computerized set-up used in this script.

Summary Data

File Name: vviq2_summary*.iqdat

Data Fields

NameDescription
inquisit.version Inquisit version number
computer.platform Device platform: win | mac |ios | android
startDate Date the session was run
startTime Time the session was run
subjectId Participant ID
groupId Group number
sessionId Session number
elapsedTime Session duration in ms
completed 0 = Test was not completed
1 = Test was completed
textbox.age.response Age response of participant
radioButtons.gender.response Gender response of participant
textbox.occupation.response Occupation response of participant
vviq2Total Range 32 (low ability to imagine) -160 (high ability to imagine)
the higher the score, the higher the ability to imagine

Raw Data

File Name: vviq2*.iqdat

Data Fields

NameDescription
date Date the session was run
time Time the session was run
subject, group, session With the current subject/groupnumber/session id
build Inquisit version number
q*_response Response given (in assigned values)
Scale: 1 (no image at all)- 5 (perfectly clear and vivid)
q*_latency How much time (in ms) the participant spent on the surveyPage with this particular
question (the last time this particular surveyPage was visited)