Psychologists use many different methods to test the thinking abilities of a person. They design many different kind of methods to test the thinking ability. Psychologists Ellis Paul Torrance and Joy Paul Guilford have in fact developed a unique test system to test the thinking abilities of persons in the 20th century. They designed this test after studying the thinking abilities of many different persons. The tests can actually determine the person’s level of creativity and intelligence.
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These tests designed by psychologists Ellis Paul Torrance and Joy Paul Guilford were once used for training the military personnel. These tests achieved such a success that they are now also been included in school’s curricula. Here we are presenting to you the same test which was used designed by psychologists Ellis Paul Torrance and Joy Paul Guilford. We are putting forward this test to evaluate the thinking abilities of the people.
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To take this test, you are required to look closely at the ten pictures which have been shown below. You are required to make out what is being shown in the pictures. One thing that you need to keep in mind is that once you think that you have easily identified the object in the picture then you must think more as it can be a disguise. You are required to think a lot before deciding what you have seen. The results are shown at the end of the article.
One of the uniqueness of this test is that there are no correct or incorrect answers. The creativity of the person taking the test can be ascertained from the point that how different is their answers from the most obvious answers. It also tests one’s ability to come up with the number of variants they come up with each picture.
Here are the answers:
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1Picture one
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Normally, an ordinary person will say that he has seen a candle putting on a stand in the picture but actually it is also a corkscrew which has got stuck in a cork.
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2Picture two
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When you look at this picture, you will easily get an impression that there is a pair of footprints seen in a circle. However, there are also people who say that it is actually a paratrooper landing on the ground.
3Picture three
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Here the answer can be tricky. One can simply say that it is showing a compass. However, the persons having extraordinary thinking abilities will say that it is a hungry baby bird who is sitting in a nest and calling its mother.