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BARGAIN BOOKS ORIGINAL Incl •>"{7 SPECIAL 051 V6^ OJ KNOW complete intelligence tests and instructions for YOUR H.J. converting the scores into an I.Q. EYSENCK rating 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-producing 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., and be your own monitor, too. Take them at your convenience in quiet, You comfortable surroundings. be able to estimate and will confirm your Intelligence Quoone of the most accurate ways to measure intelligence. The first part of the book de- tient, scribes clearly what an I.Q. is, how can be applied, and what the shortcomings of this system of it rating may be, as well as giving an interesting history of how intelligence 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. (Continued on back flap) Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 http://archive.org/details/knowyouriqOOoutl KNOW YOUR OWN 10 Dr.H. J.EYSENCK,who was born in 1916, obtained his Ph.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 of Psychology 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 personality, he has written some two hundred field of articles in Dimenof Personality, The Scientific Study of Personality, The Structure of Human Personality, The Psychology of Politics, The Dynamics of Anxiety and Hysteria, The Uses and Abuses of Psychology, Sense and Nonsense in Psychology, Fact and Fiction in Psychology, and Check Your Own I.Q. He has recently edited a Handbook of Abnormal Psychology, two volumes of Experiments in Personality, and Behaviour Therapy and the Neuroses, He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Behaviour Research and Therapy. He advocates the technical journals, as well as several books, including sions highest degree of scientific rigour in the design of psychological experiments and is very critical of much loose think- ing current at present under the guise of * psychology \ KNOW YOUR OWN H. J. EYSENCK 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 of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data J. (Hans Jurgen), 1916— your own I.Q. / by H.J. Eysenck. cm. Eysenck, H. Know p. ISBN 0