Fact: The brain is a terrible thing to waste. So USA Today Brain-Flexing IQ Tests has arrived just in the nick of time! It gives you the chance to measure your mental skill and stimulate your brain muscle. Each test is designed to take about 30 minutes to complete and includes 15 brain-twisting puzzles. The collection offers a variety of math, verbal, and visual puzzles that constantly keep you challenged and engaged. Here’s a sample: Rhyme it! If a dumb symbol of love is a STUPID CUPID, what would you call a person who damages a birthday cake topper? Answer: CANDLE VANDAL. And that’s only a taste of what you can expect from these brainbusting conundrums!

What number best completes the series? What anagrams don't belong? Which pattern satisfies the analogy? No cheating! Flex that brain muscle and see how intelligent you really are with this fun and formidable two-part series of quizzes. Care to measure your IQ? See how well you stack up after taking one of the eight IQ tests offered here. Then, measure specific skills through a series of tests designed to gauge numerical, verbal, and spatial abilities. Answers to each question, complete with explanations, appear at the end of each section. Score yourself using the easy-to-follow charts provided here, then rank yourself against friends to prove that you really are the smartest one on the block.

Self-help is a thriving genre -- Test Your I.Q. makes it especially interesting and entertaining. Much more than a comprehensive self-scoring test based on proven scientific principles, this book provides insight into the mysterious concept of intelligence and uncovers new opportunities for self-knowledge.

Honorary International President of MENSA Victor Serebriakoff has created two comprehensive tests?similar to the elaborate standardized ones administered by professional psychologists?perfectly designed to measure your cognitive skills, reasoning abilities, quick-learning capability, and problem-solving proficiency. Begin with the practice quizzes to warm up, and then proceed to the actual tests, which concentrate on verbal, mathematical, and spatial relations questions. At the end of the booklet, you'll find the right answers and an explanation of how to determine your IQ from your scores. There are also tables that convert your results into a percentage rating so you can assess where you fall in the general population.

We are currently experiencing a wide range of evolving problems that threaten us with extinction. However, Phillips argues that we have the capacity-with the aid of a broad approach to the scientific method that builds on Mills's concept of "the sociological imagination"-to confront these problems ever more effectively. This book develops and builds upon new methods for addressing such social problems as global warming, terrorism, growing inequalities, and others. Phillips reveals procedures for achieving conscious evolution by uncovering fundamental assumptions and their contradictions and by moving toward alternative assumptions that promise to resolve these contradictions.

One of the world’s most innovative and respected cognitive neuroscientists combines cutting-edge research with unique exercises to help you improve the most powerful, most staggeringly complex machine ever created: your brain. In Make Your Brain Smarter, renowned cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Sandra Bond Chapman introduces you to the very latest research in brain science and shows you how to tailor a program to strengthen your brain’s capacity to think smarter. In this all-inclusive book, Dr. Chapman delivers a comprehensive “fitness” plan that you can use to “exercise” your way to a healthier brain. You will find strategies to reduce stress and anxiety, increase productivity, enhance decision-making, and strengthen how your brain works at every age. You will discover why memory is not the most important measure of brain capacity, why IQ is a misleading index of brain potential, and why innovative thinking energizes your brain. Make Your Brain Smarter is the ultimate guide for keeping your brain fit during each decade of your life.

The concept and measurement of intelligence present a curious paradox. On the one hand, scientists, fluent in the complex statistics of intelligence-testing theories, devote their lives to exploration of cognitive abilities. On the other hand, the media, and inexpert, cross-disciplinary scientists decry the effort as socially divisive and useless in practice. In the past decade, our understanding of testing has radically changed. Better selected samples have extended evidence on the role of heredity and environment in intelligence. There is new evidence on biology and behavior. Advances in molecular genetics have enabled us to discover DMA markers which can identify and isolate a gene for simple genetic traits, paving the way for the study of multiple gene traits, such as intelligence. Hans Eysenck believes these recent developments approximate a general paradigm which could form the basis for future research. He explores the many special abilities--verbal, numerical, visuo-spatial memory--that contribute to our cognitive behavior. He examines pathbreaking work on "multiple" intelligence, and the notion of "social" or "practical" intelligence and considers whether these new ideas have any scientific meaning. Eysenck also includes a study of creativity and intuition--as well as the production of works of art and science--identifying special factors that interact with general intelligence to produce predictable effects in the actual world. The work that Hans Eysenck has put together over the last fifty years in research into individual differences constitutes most of what anyone means by the structure and biological basis of personality and intelligence. A giant in the field of psychology, Eysenck almost single-handedly restructured and reordered his profession. Intelligence is Eysenck's final book and the third in a series of his works from Transaction.