Examination: Test of Imagination

Abstract

Editor"s note: I found this short piece in the Library and Archives Canada describing tests to discover something about a person's capacity for imagination and about one's way of thinking about one's different senses. The apparent simplicity of the questions Scott posed reflects his lifelong attempt to find the simplest way to say things. This simplicity was often more than a little unnerving--the questions were like surprises--for one had never been asked questions quite like this before by anyone. The same was true of his 14 questions to scan someone's memories and anticipations (which also test imagination), and "the answers contain so many interrelated feelings, which can, with experience, be used quickly to elicit a set of conflicts to help you begin to understand the person to whom you are talking" (see Scott 1992, 4).