General Information For this project I researched the Raven’s Progressive Matrices test, or the RPM, as well as the Raven’s Advanced Progressive Matrices test, and a bit on the Colored Progressive Matrices test. The RPM was developed by John C. Raven in 1936 and it was first published in 1938. The Advanced Matrices was published in 1947 for the British War Office Selection Boards because they needed more advanced tests to be developed. Since then, various versions have been updated and published
This test comes in three formats; the Colour Progressive Matrices which is utilised when testing children and the elderly, the Standard Progressive Matrices for the general population and mostly used in groups in order to assess how capable they can work without distractions even when they are working at their own pace. Lastly, the Advanced Progressive Matrices which accesses the pace of an individual’s intellectual capacity is useful in judging a person
It is nine thirty at night, three days before my paper is due, and the twins will not go to sleep. I hardly have an outline for my essay. I also just realized I have barely eaten today, between working, feeding the babies dinner, and trying to get them to sleep. However, all I can think about is my essay. Will I have enough time to produce a legible and coherent paper, or will I die from exhaustion first? I know I am being a little dramatic; nonetheless, this question repeats on a loop, over and
Technology in today's society is rapidly evolving and advancing. However, the question remains can a computer successfully process a task which requires a high level of cognitive function when completed by humans? There are many factors which can influence on the completion of a task including, cognition, performance and optimization but to what extent can we control these factors. However, we cannot always control internal factors which make it difficult to focus and cognitive ability has specific
The exact nature of intelligence was discussed more strongly than ever in the past century. As knowledge of psychology has developed one of the first issues, it had to answer the nature of intelligence. Some of the definitions that have been known to the intelligence were the adaptability to its environment. By this definition even a person who is generally regarded as boring can be considered intelligent if he can take care of itself, further definition is like having a tendency to analyze things
Curiosity is a personality trait that everyone has in some way or another throughout their whole life. How it is defined, however, is up for debate. Many people consider curiosity to be simply a desire to learn and know, but scholars tend to take the meaning deeper. George Loewenstein (1994) describes curiosity as the attraction to information that “confers no extrinsic benefit,” so people tend to delve more deeply into things than would serve to help them somehow. To define it in a more distinctive
Society has always had a growing fascination with human intelligence which is why society cogitate the Mozart Effect (Bangerter & Heath, 2004). Various assumptions have been made in the past regarding the plausibility of this theory, however without reliable sources, no conclusions can be drawn (Črnčec, R., Wilson, SJ., & Prior, M, 2005). Former studies concerning the Mozart Effect have helped to delineate the soundness of this theory especially regarding the effect Mozart’s composition has on an
Child maltreatment is one of the major public health concerns in the United States. Child abuse has been documented in every society. The effects of child maltreatment are short-term and long-term. Many scientists and researchers are wondering what the specific impacts child maltreatment has on cognitive development and academic achievements. Parents who can’t control their anger when discipling children not only place them in a dangerous position physically, but harm them emotionally and mentally
Diversity across cultures differs remarkably when it comes to social norms, but among all these different cultures lies one similarity: psychopaths. A psychopath is defined as a person suffering from a mental illness who portrays abnormal or violent behavior, has deficient emotional processing, and an absence of morals pertaining to appropriate decision making. Despite the growing research in the field of psychopathology and neurobiology, the neural substrates underlying these bizarre and fierce