Analogies – IQ Tests
Intelligence tests serve as a method to measure a person’s cognitive capabilities, or in other words, the degree of skill to solve complex problems with the ability to reason in a wide variety of areas. There are many different types of intelligence tests, such as abstract reasoning tests, analogies tests, verbal analogies, syllogisms and also numerical or spatial reasoning tests.
Abstract reasoning is not related to common knowledge like numeracy, language or other factual informations. Abstract reasoning is rather the ability to solve fictional problems. Therefore in an abstract reasoning test the challenge is to find the correct answer by the use of symbols or pictures. The general intelligence can be determined by an abstract reasoning test.
A verbal analogies test is a reasoning test where the task is to find the missing terms in analogies, which can be inferred from the similarity between two or more given terms. Verbal analogies are the most common form of verbal reasoning questions. An analogies test is used to test the ability to reason the question’s solution from language.
Syllogisms are used to generally test the logical reasoning skills. Syllogisms consist of two premises or statements upon which an argument is based which again leads to a logical conclusion. In other words, reasoning from the general to the particular.
Number sequences are used to test the numerical reasoning skills by finding the missing number in number sequences. To solve such number sequences some basic knowledge in math is required.
In spatial reasoning tests the visualization and orientation abilities are needed to, for example, call up images to mentally recreate two dimensional and three dimensional objects. Spatial reasoning is what is also very necessary in everyday life to estimate for example speed or distance of objects to draw relevant conclusions. So improving has sense.
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