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.
語のこの用法が普通の言語のそれと衝突するので、一部の心理学者はこのプロセスを "imaging" または"imagery"と言うか、「生産的」または「構築的」な想像力と対照して、「再生産的」(reproductive)と呼ぼうとする。