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BARGAIN BOOKS ORIGINAL SPECIAL Incl 051 V6^ •>"{7 OJ KNOW complete intelligence and tests instructions YOUR for converting the scores into an rating I.Q. EYSENCK H.J. KNOW YOUR OWNia H.J. Eysenck How many times have you read these instructions for some dreaded examination: "Each test contains forty items. You have a limited time to work out the answers, so work as quickly as possible." Now, rather than having to experience such an anxiety-pro- ducing ordeal, you can actually have fun determining your mental ability! With the tests in this famous book, you can enjoy hours of pleasure working out your own I.Q., andbeyourown monitor, too. Take them at your convenience in quiet, comfortable surroundings. You will be able to estimate and confirm your Intelligence Quo- tient, one of the most accurate ways to measure intelligence. The first part of the book de- scribes clearlywhatan I.Q. is, how it can be applied, and what the shortcomings of this system of ratingmaybe, as well asgiving an interesting history of how intelli- gence testing developed and a discussion of whether intelligence is inherited or acquired. The second part of the book contains eight sets of forty I.Q. (Continuedon backflap) Digitized by the Internet Archive 2012 in http://archive.org/details/knowyouriqOOoutl KNOW OWN YOUR 10 Dr.H.J.EYSENCK,whowas bornin 1916, obtainedhisPh.D. degree in psychology at London University after school and university experience in Germany, France, and England. Having worked as psychologist at the war-time Mill Hill Emergency Hospital, he was appointed Professor ofPsycho- logy in the University of London, and Director of the Psychological Department at the Institute of Psychiatry (Maudsley and Bethlem Royal Hospitals). He has lectured in many countries, and been Visiting Professor at the Universities of Pennsylvania and of California. Known mainly through his experimental researches in the field of personality, he has written some two hundred articles in technicaljournals,aswellasseveralbooks,includingDimen- sions of Personality, The Scientific Study of Personality, The Structure of Human Personality, The Psychology of Politics, The Dynamics ofAnxiety and Hysteria, The Uses andAbusesofPsychology, SenseandNonsense inPsychology, Fact and Fiction in Psychology, and Check Your Own I.Q. He has recently edited a Handbook ofAbnormalPsychology, two volumes of Experiments in Personality, and Behaviour Therapyandthe Neuroses, He is Editor-in-Chiefofthejour- nal Behaviour Research and Therapy. He advocates the highest degree of scientific rigour in the design of psycho- logical experiments and is very critical ofmuch loosethink- ingcurrentatpresentundertheguiseof*psychology\ KNOW OWN YOUR EYSENCK H. J. BELL PUBLISHING COMPANY NEW YORK Copyright © 1962 by H. J. Eysenck All rights reserved. This 1962 edition is published by Bell Publishing Company distributed by Outlet Book Company, Inc., a Random House Company, 225 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10003, by arrangement with Viking Penguin, Inc. Printed and bound in the United States ofAmerica Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Eysenck, H. J. (Hans Jurgen), 1916— Know your own I.Q. / by H.J. Eysenck. p. cm. ISBN 0-517-05296-2 1. Intelligence tests. 2. Intelligence levels. 3. Self-evaluation. I. Title. BF431.E85 1990 153.932—dc20 90-42134 CIP 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 CONTENTS introduction: Intelligence Quotientsandthe Measurement ofIntelligence 7 HOW TOMEASUREYOUR OWN I.Q. 39 INSTRUCTIONS 43 Questions TEST ONE 45 TESTFIVE 103 TEST TWO 61 TEST SIX 117 TESTTHREE 75 TESTSEVEN 131 TESTFOUR 89 TESTEIGHT 145 Answers andExplanations TEST ONE 159 TESTFIVE 175 TEST TWO 163 TESTSIX 179 TEST THREE 167 TEST SEVEN 183 TESTFOUR 171 TEST EIGHT 186 TRANSFORMING SCORESINTOI.Q.S 190-92
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