THE SENTENCE PICTURE VERIFICATION TASK - METHODOLOGICAL AND THEORETICAL DIFFICULTIES

The sentence-picture verification task has received a great deal of at tention over the years, and it has been a source of many interesting f indings concerning the relationships between individual differences in people's abilities, task performance and strategy selection. However, there are a number of problems with interpreting data from this task as it appears to be particularly difficult to reliably classify subjec ts into distinct strategy groups. The purpose of this work was to revi ew the various classification systems used by previous researchers and assess their validity. No system was found to be without problems, an d it is suggested that previous conclusions derived from this task may not be justified.