IQ training

Try the following examples from Mensa's IQ workout.

This type of problem - finding abstract relations and rules in the elements of geometrical shapes - is the most valid way of measuring fluid intelligence: our ability to reason and problem solve in new situations where we cannot rely on previous experience or knowledge. The cognitive skills needed to solve these types of problems is at the core of our general intelligence.

Why are these puzzles a good measure of everyday intelligence?

Because solving them depends on the same cognitive skill set that is needed for any thinking or problem solving that requires a high IQ - from figuring out how to fix the TV, to evaluating a political argument, to solving a computer coding problem.

What are the elements of this skill set?

Executive Cognitive Processes in IQ Training

Take question 26. Notice the line in the bottom left corner and ignore the other stuff; in the next square it's in the top right corner, then it's back to the bottom left, then up again to the top right and so on. There's a pattern. So you can reason that the answer has to be b or c. Hold that in mind. Now look at the bottom right corner line. Next square there are two lines in the top left, next box there are three lines bottom right, next box four lines top left, then five bottom right. So the next has to be? Six lines top left. Only a and c show this. From before, we know that it can't be a. So we can conclude right there - without even looking at the other lines in the box, that the answer is c.

To solve this kind of problem we need to use what are called 'executive processes':

• EXECUTIVE PROCESSES ♦ We can't rely on prior knowledge or an automatic response     - we have to reason it through with concentration.  ♦ We have to selectively attend to some information and     ignore distracting information.  ♦ We have to hold items of information in short     term memory (what is known as 'working' memory').  ♦ We have to do mental operations on the information     (e.g. 'add one') and update the information we are     attending to as we are working through the problem.  ♦ We also have to break the problem down into sub-tasks     and be strategic with our effort in different sub tasks. For     instance, there was another sub-task we could have done     - looking at the other set of lines - but we didn't have to      look at them. This involves monitoring how we're doing     on the task from a 'big picture' perspective.  All these cognitive skills are known as executive processes.  They lie at the heart of intelligence. If a person   is good at  doing these things, the will be more intelligent.

    
    Our IQ training software: why it works

Our IQ training software is specially designed to directly train these executive processes. In improving these cognitive skills, there is a direct transfer effect on intelligence. Intelligence increases by 40% * after 19 days of IQ training (half an hour per day) with our software.

  * As measured by a time limited Raven’s Advanced Progressive Matrices test - one of the most valid and highly regarded IQ tests for culture free, general intelligence.

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