Since this use of the term conflicts with that of ordinary language, some psychologists have preferred to describe this process as "imaging" or "imagery" or to speak of it as "reproductive" as opposed to "productive" or "constructive" imagination.
因为这个术语的这种用法与其日常语言的用法矛盾，有些心理学家更喜欢把这个过程说成“造像过程”或者“意象”，或者称其为“再生”想象过程，以与“产生性的”或“建造性的”想象过程。