The perfect gift book for cat lovers everywhere, showing how to measure your cat's intelligence in a series of easy and fun tests. How clever is your cat? Can your cat: * Make sounds upon request? * Predict a change in the weather? Or is your cat the type who * Falls of ledges while sleeping? * Continually runs into walls or doors? You can find out how smart your cat really is by giving him or her the Cat IQ Test -- a simple, four-part intelligence test. By observation and by using everyday household items, you will be able to measure your cat's co-ordination, communication, social and reasoning powers. Also includes: * Suggestions on how to improve your cat's IQ. * Comparative scores of other cats by age, sex and type. * A Certificate of Merit to be filled in and proudly displayed on completion of the Cat IQ Test.
Does your cat come when you call, make sounds upon request, play fetch, or open doors? Thousands of cat owners may swear that their felines are, in fact, too smart to perform on command, but if you want to measure your pet’s intelligence anyway, this is the book for you. These short, easy quizzes are designed to test your cat’s social abilities, communication skills, coordination, sensory perception, and memory using simple experiments with household items. Your cat’s senses and thought processes are vastly different from yours, so it is difficult to gauge intelligence without understanding the motivations behind their actions. This book will give you a chance to figure out once and for all whether or not your cat is blissfully ignorant or just sophisticated and aloof when he or she refuses to eat a cheap brand of food or sleep anywhere but on the couch. Readers will also be encouraged to learn different ways to improve their cat’s mental abilities and quality of life and to bond with their pet on a whole new level.
From the creative genius who brought readers Why Cats Paint, here's a handy little home test that they can use to determine whether they're cat has the potential to be a world-class artiste. A series of 20 easy-to-use test cards from the heralded Museum of Non-Primate Art allow readers to evaluate their pets.
From the author of The Dog I.Q. Test comes an ingenious method to test the intelligence and social skills of cats and to find out how owners measure up. Do you have a feline Einstein, or is your cat blissfully ignorant? And how well has your cat trained you? The book is packed with humorous anecdotes, unforgettable stories, and fascinating historical facts while offering new insights into the purrfect owner-cat relationship. Illustrations throughout.
Enjoyable mental exercises to help boost performance on IQ tests This engaging book offers readers the ultimate in calisthenics for the brain. Using the same fun, informative, and accessible style that have made his previous books so popular, Philip Carter helps people identify mental strengths and weaknesses, and provides methods for improving memory, boosting creativity, and tuning in to emotional intelligence. Featuring never-before-published tests designed specifically for this book, plus answers for all questions, this latest treasure trove from a MENSA puzzle editor outlines a fun, challenging program for significantly enhancing performance in all areas of intelligence.
The Official Cat I.Q. Test is the first book ever that reveals to cat owners just how accurate their high-flown suspicions are about their own cats. With dozens of multiple-choice questions, owners can gauge their pet's intellect by observing its reactions to various everyday stimuli, from the sound of food being prepared to the sight of an ardent cat-hater.
The general theme of this book is to present the applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in test development. In particular, this book includes research and successful examples of using AI technology in automated item generation, automated test assembly, automated scoring, and computerized adaptive testing. By utilizing artificial intelligence, the efficiency of item development, test form construction, test delivery, and scoring could be dramatically increased. Chapters on automated item generation offer different perspectives related to generating a large number of items with controlled psychometric properties including the latest development of using machine learning methods. Automated scoring is illustrated for different types of assessments such as speaking and writing from both methodological aspects and practical considerations. Further, automated test assembly is elaborated for the conventional linear tests from both classical test theory and item response theory perspectives. Item pool design and assembly for the linear-on-the-fly tests elaborates more complications in practice when test security is a big concern. Finally, several chapters focus on computerized adaptive testing (CAT) at either item or module levels. CAT is further illustrated as an effective approach to increasing test-takers’ engagement in testing. In summary, the book includes both theoretical, methodological, and applied research and practices that serve as the foundation for future development. These chapters provide illustrations of efforts to automate the process of test development. While some of these automation processes have become common practices such as automated test assembly, automated scoring, and computerized adaptive testing, some others such as automated item generation calls for more research and exploration. When new AI methods are emerging and evolving, it is expected that researchers can expand and improve the methods for automating different steps in test development to enhance the automation features and practitioners can adopt quality automation procedures to improve assessment practices.
