Sounds and Images was administered to 60 college women. The sensory origins of their image responses when identified were mainly and in rank of occurrence, auditory, visual, visual-kinesthetic, visual-auditory-kinesthetic, and visual-auditory. Images of multiple sense origins occurred more frequently than those of a single sense origin. The results are consistent with those of earlier studies.
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