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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
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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.
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