Exploring the origins of genius and creativity, this book delves into the various factors that influence these traits. It analyzes the interplay between individual talent, environmental conditions, and cultural influences, providing insights into how creativity can be nurtured and harnessed. Through a blend of research and real-life examples, the work offers a comprehensive understanding of the elements that contribute to exceptional creative achievements.
A Detailed Explanation of What IQ Means and How It Is Measured--Including Eight Tests You Can Take
A detailed explanation of what IQ means and how it is measured – including eight tests you can take! In Test Your IQ, Professor Hans Eysenck, the world-renowned expert on IQ testing, presents an introduction to the meaning, significance, and measurement of intelligence testing that sheds light on the controversy surrounding IQ scores. Is intelligence inherent or is it learned? Does a person’s genetic makeup and ethnic origin have any significance in the intelligence testing? Test your IQ and find your own answers to the controversy with eight sets of tests designed especially for this book. Answers to the tests and a graph to convert your results into an IQ score will reveal if you’re above average—or maybe even a genius!
Over 75 per cent of the population believes in ESP (extra-sensory preception), and a majority in precognition. Reports of apparitions, of telepathy, and other strange phenomena have been rife since antiquity. Science has made such staggering advances in explaining the world around us that paranormal events - those that seem to contradict scientific laws - appear all the more suspect. This book argues that these dismissive attitudes are fundamentally non-scientific. Where evidence for the paranormal exists, scientists have a responsibility to examine and evaluate that evidence. The authors of this book investigate poltergeists, the mystique and the powers of mediums and faith healers, and the effects of sensory deprivation, meditation and hypnosis on paranormal human abilities (psi). They also discuss the most recent findings concerning mind-over-matter experiments, life beyond death and the effects of personality, sex differences and the environment on the way that psi operates.
Intelligence quotient, as a useful means of measuring brain capacity, has come increasingly into the public eye in recent years. This famous book (and its sequel "Check Your Own IQ") enables the reader to estimate and confirm his/her own IQ rating.
Hans Eysenck draws in his unrivalled knowledge of recent psychological research- and produces unanswerable evidence that we should now dismiss psychoanalysis as a pseudo-science. He explores the heroic myths Freud created about his own originality and the uncomprehending hostility he encountered- myths repeated to this day by credulous disciples.
