Nicron #117 21 мая 2000

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Soft - The test of intelligence by Eysenck - now on the Spectrum!

        Look at yourself!

Wlodek Black



      Eysenck on intelligence test - now on the Spectrum!

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   Eysenck, Hans Jurgen / Hans Jurgen Eysenk / (March 4, 1916 
(Berlin) - September 4, 1997). His father was a recognized 
actor and singer, and mother - star of silent movies. The 
future of his son, they saw show business, and at age 8 Eysenck 
has played a minor role in one of the films. However, when he 
was 3 years old, my parents separated, and was raised by his 
maternal grandmother. After graduating from high school Eysenck 
decided to continue his education abroad, partly because he 
feared Nazi prosecution. Years later, he wrote: "I knew that 
for me there the future on my unhappy country "[Eysenck, 1982, 
p. 289]. After a year spent in France, he settled down and 
England where he studied psychology at the University of 
London. In 1940, he was awarded a PhD. During the Second World

Eysenck war he worked as a psychologist in a psychiatric 
hospital, patients who were suffering from the stress of war. 
Since 1946 he has lectured in psychology at the University of 
London and is also the director of the Institute of Psychiatry 
at the hospital Models in London. He also worked in the post 
advising professor at various universities in the United 
States. In 1983, Eysenck, resigned, leaving the work at the 
Department of Psychology, University of London. 

   Eysenck - an extremely prolific writer, he has published 
about 45 books and 600 scientific articles. His main 
theoretical work: "Measurement identity" (1947), "The 
scientific study of personality" (1952), "Structure of the 
human person" (1970), "Personality and individual differences 
"(co-authored with his son, Michael Eysenck, 1985). 

   For the psychology of the figure Eysenck is quite 
controversial. This is due partly to the central role in two 
the hottest scientific debates - about the heritability of 
intelligence and the effectiveness of psychotherapy. He 
defended the view that intelligence is largely determined by 
heredity, and that the traditional verbal therapy (in 
particularly psychoanalysis) have minimum or no not effective 
in the treatment of mental disorders. Both these positions have 
been adopted by more than restraint, on which Eysenck has made 
the following admission: "I used to be anti-establishment in 
favor of the rebels. I am inclined to think that on these 
items, most were wrong, and I was right "[Eysenck, 1982, p. 
298]. 

   G. Eysenck in his works repeatedly pointed out that
his research brought to life by the imperfection of psychiatric 
diagnoses. In his view, the traditional classification of 
mental illness should be replaced by a system of measurements, 
which presents the essential characteristics of the individual. 
When This mental illness is like a continuation of the 
individual differences observed in normal people. 

   Much attention is H. Eysenck in his research on collecting 
experimental data confirming the universality of he proposed 
the measurement of personality. 

   The first of the questionnaires H. Eysenck - Moudsleysky 
Medical Questionnaire "(Maudsley Medical Questionnaire, or MMQ, 
from the name of clinic, which was created) - was proposed in 
1947, followed for MMQ was offered "Moudsleysky Personality 
Inventory" (Maudsley Personality Inventory, or MPI), published 
in 1956


   In 1969, Eysenck and S. Eysenck published a new survey by
entitled "Eysenck Personality Inventory" (Eysenck Personality
Questionnaire, or EPQ), which is designed to diagnose
neuroticism, extra-introversion and psychotism.

   Many foreign studies to the argument that the introduction 
of such a personal matter, as psychotism, has no scientific 
rationale, experimental data are inconsistent, and the use of 
scales psychotism in practice, can contribute to the appearance 
of false diagnostic guidelines. Information about using the EPQ 
in the USSR are not available. 

(Burlachuk LF, Morozov SM).

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            Hans Jurgen Eysenck



   Quantitative measurement of the ability to think, or a test 
of intelligence, can be regarded as not directly related to 
psychological diagnostics and seen as an instrument of 
self-knowledge that is implemented in almost game form.


   A computer program test offers a number of the subject (from
several tens to hundreds) of questions that need to either
choose a ready response from several options proposed, or to 
construct a response on your own - for example, to enter a 
number or phrase. To solve the problems need to use different 
methods of thinking, which stresses logic, perception, 
graphics, text and numeric information, as well as some direct 
knowledge of a general cultural nature. For execution of the 
test given to certain times, but the subject itself may divide 
it between different tasks. Solve problems in any order, missed 
assignments are presented again, but the task to which the 
answer was, not re- produced, regardless of the answer is 
correct. Meaning each job or explanatory text, or it is 
required to identify himself. 

   Computer programs for determining the IQ (IQ) on a PC than a 
dozen. So nice to see the emergence of this class of software 
for the Spectrum. 

   Unfortunately (that perhaps debatable:)), the subject of IQ 
Nicron already touched - in room 104, poludetektivnoy article 
"Sir Clive Sinclair, or the Living and the Dead:) ". Let me 
remind you that the IQ of Sir Clive equals 159.


   Program TEST_IQ, located in the Appendix, written by the 
author from Krasnoyarsk - Valentine / Fantom - and was 
presented in Fido Vladimir Bogdanovich in February-March 2000. 
Vladimir Bogdanovich has promised full cooperation in 
establishing contact with the author and do not exclude that 
there will be other programs of psychological self-knowledge. 

   Honest (in the sense in strict accordance with instructions 
and strictly once) going all the test, I could see the high 
quality of the program - the result coincided with previous 
results on the PC. Checking for immediate family (my, not man 
in general ;-)) just confirmed it. 

   And then I, in consultation with the representative of the 
author, the upgraded program, without touching its contents, of 
course. Shook all that it is appropriate to shake, remove 
unnecessary podzagruzki from the disk, placing in memory the 
entire schedule, altered the musical intro, made more 
comfortable (in my opinion), keyboard input, corrected minor 
glitches, introduced new ones:)). Enter Russian letters "H", 
"W" "U", "E", "Yu" I've done both in the ZX-Word, although 
their input in the old through the Extended Mode, also saved.


   To use TEST_IQ need Spectrum 128K, preferably with AY. 
Run-time test - 30 minutes of questions - 40. Else you need to 
know from the very program and apply it only once for one 
person, and this condition is necessary. Therefore, tune in to 
the test in advance, take the time to remove from interfering 
circumstances, make sure feel fine. Start test, select "2 - 
Introduction and read the introduction. Then the actual test. 
Remember that recycling programs will give overestimated 
results, because you will use the experience gained in the 
first test. AND the main thing: do not worry if your result 
does not make it to the level of Sir Clive Sinclair ;-)) - any 
IQ test principle is designed so that the allotted time it is 
unable to fully pass a single person. If you wish to offer to 
pass the test to your friends and family, do not tell them your 
results and ask the other participants also did not disclose 
their results until the completion of testing all participants.


   Appendix: an IQ test to Eysenck, the version for ZX-Spectrum.
(C) Fantom, 03.2000.