A total of 116 undergraduates (49 men, 67 women) completed the Gordon Test of Visual Imagery Control followed immediately by another form. Scores were higher for women than for men and on the original than on the new version. Alternate-form reliability coefficients were .517 for the complete sample, .712 for men, and .210 for women. It was concluded that consistency across content was lower than desirable.
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